In this second Desire Lines newsletter, we're pleased to share poetry from Madaleine Sorkin and Amrita Dhar, prose from Shirin Shabestari, artwork from Isabella Bates and Rebecca Sherer, a craft essay from Katie Ives, and a tribute to Junko Tabei from Julie Rak.
Hello and welcome to the first Desire Lines newsletter! We're launching Desire Lines Collective, an online mountain writing community, a newsletter, and a print journal dedicated to elevating women, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming writers of mountain literature. A counter to clickbait and the status quo in outdoor media,
By Katie Ives | A version of this review originally appeared in Alpinist 90. Beneath old formulaic tales of men's dominion over mountains, rivers, and air, there have always been more varied stories by people of all genders — at times flowing like underground streams or bursting forth with a