<\/a>Some of the featured art in the latest edition of University of Alaska Southeast’s Tidal Echoes literary magazine. (Courtesy Photo \/ Shaelene Grace Moler)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
“I’ve been working with Tidal Echoes for quite a few years now and the first time I was ever published was with Tidal Echoes, so it’s pretty sentimental,” Moler said. “This edition feels like a culmination of everything that I have done at UAS and everything I’ve done outside of UAS because I see a lot of people that I’ve grown up with and worked with professionally and that I’m friends with being represented in the journal and that’s very exciting to me. It has always been wonderful to be a part of this journal because I feel like I get to shine the spotlight on other people and give them their first entry into the world of publication.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
The latest UAS Tidal Echoes<\/a> edition has its hybrid launch on Friday from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Egan Lecture Hall on the UAS campus which will feature food, beverages, a pop-up shop for artist’s merchandise, and a table to purchase the journal. Kindred Post will also have copies for sale after Friday.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Moler said this edition promises to be one of the best yet, with over 300 writing and art submissions combined. Though this edition didn’t exactly have a specific theme, Moler said she noticed a lot of the submissions that came in were focused on topics such as climate change and religious commentary, far more than compared to previous years.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “In the wake of Roe V. Wade there has been a lot of discussions on how religion influences politics, and I feel like a lot of submissions ended up talking about that, mostly critiques on how religion influences decisions,” Moler said. “As for the climate crisis, I’m not exactly sure what influenced people to submit so many pieces about the climate crisis other than it’s just a topic that we are constantly thinking about.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t For this edition, Moler said she’s especially excited because this Tidal Echoes will feature two well-known Alaska artists: Chloey Klawk Shaa Cavanaugh and Lin Davis. Cavanaugh is an Indigenous graphic designer originally from Juneau where she runs her business Black and White Raven Company<\/a>. Davis is an established writer and activist in the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “It was our goal to highlight the LGBTQ+ community and we got both Chloey and Lin,” Moler said. “Chloey being a much younger voice and a leader in the support group spectrum of people within that community, as well as a member of the Pride board in Seattle. Then we have Lin Davis who has been an activist for decades and one of her main goals is learning from the younger generation on how to better support people, so we got two very involved voices, an elder and a younger voice that kind of feels like they’re working together in some sense which is cool.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t