The Funambulist in Spanish

In July 2023, we announced our wish to start publishing The Funambulist magazine in languages other than English. This is how we began The Funambulist’s francophone version with issue 50 Redefining Our Terms in November 2023. One year later, we are delighted to announce the beginning of the hispanophone version of the magazine. 

Our targeted audience is in Spain, but more importantly, in the rest of the hispanophone world, in particular in Abya Yala and the Caribbean. We seek to be more engaged with a readership that we have seldom touched up until now. We indeed have published many articles about so-called Latin America (in particular Mexico and Brazil, and to a lesser extent, Chile and Colombia), but still today, we may lack a strong influence from Latin American anticolonial, anticapitalist, and queer epistemologies.

Publishing the magazine in Spanish is thus a way to make ourselves accountable to this audience, and to learn from them. As for the bilaterality of the francophone and anglophone versions, we intend for this plurilingual project to allow us to commission more texts directly in Spanish, and translate them towards English and French. This is the case of two texts in our November-December issue.

We also hope that the hispanophone audience will benefit from The Funambulist’s commitment to internationalism, and will thus have access to important texts reflecting on political struggles in Kashmir, Algeria, Aboriginal Australia, Ireland, South Africa, to cite only a few. 

In order to translate from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English, we have chosen to collaborate with a team of Mexican and Colombian translators based in Mexico City: Valentina Sarmiento Cruz, María Vignau Loria, and Felipe Guerra Arjona. 

In order to reach an audience in Abya Yala and the Caribbean (but also in Western Sahara, Equatorial Guinea, and the Philippines), we commit to provide a discounted rate to our digital subscriptions for those inhabiting these geographies. On the other hand, we count on our audience in Spain to support us in this project by subscribing to the print version of the magazine.

To make it all work, we will need to reach 200 print subscribers and 400 digital subscribers in the next six months. We’re counting on you! 

Subscriptions will begin on October 1st. People who subscribe will be the first ones to receive our 56th issue, Bulldozer Politics (Nov-Dec 2024). Stay tuned!