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‘Litro #181: Subcultures’ Spring 2022 edition 

This issue of Litro is dedicated to an exploration of subcultures, those often vibrant, sometimes subversive, sometimes illicit cultures that exist within a wider normative culture and are often invisible to it while subtly or not-so-subtly exercising their influence. Our mission has been to document and analyse, through the work of some stellar contributors, a few of the many subcultures operating in and beneath the surface of the contemporary now.

The journey we’ve put together we hope will transport you among people whom you may not have really “seen” before and to places that you may not have visited or that you may have visited but with the eyes of a dominant culture. We begin the journey among protesters, incels, and porn workers. We travel along the inroads of poetry. We meet a Siberian shaman, Congolese child soldiers, a woman pondering the Gender Recognition Act. Let’s understand together– and perhaps right some misunderstandings – about peyote rituals, noise, and practitioners of polyamory within these pages.