Mission
Mangrove Magazine is a print and digital publication dedicated to connecting abolitionists from around Turtle Island through art, dialogue, and political education.
Origins
Mangrove Magazine was originally born as a project of The Healing Underground (HUG) in 2024. From 2021 to 2025, HUG was a grassroots abolition, healing justice, and art collective that was rooted in both Portland, OR, and New Orleans, Louisiana. It was a queer Black, Indigenous, and POC-led project, whose our mission was to utilize abolitionist and decolonial ethics to build generative gathering spaces that were accessible, multicultural, and open to all skill and education levels.
During that time period, HUG organized over 60 free community events and workshops, assisted with coordinating two Rad Prides, hosted a convergence, distributed newsletters, raised money for mutual aid, and partnered with dozen of grassroots organizations.
Values
Abolition
Mangrove Magazine believes in the elimination of the carceral state from all sectors of life, ranging from violent colonial institutions to our (inter)personal relationships and normalized logics. We seek to contribute to the end to the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC), and by extension, the Military Industrial Complex (MIC), for the well-being of ourselves and our future descendents.
Mangrove Magazine is committed to moving through healing with an awareness of how systems of oppression impact us. We believe in a sense of justice that is rooted in transformational change. We are committed to practices of care and accountability, as opposed to the state's practices of punishment and disposability. It is in our interest to transform ourselves and our interpersonal and communal relationships by identify the underlying conditions that perpetuate harm and the systemic issues that contribute to it.
Art as a tool of Connection, Joy, Love, & Education
We believe that art is vital as a form of expression, emotional processing, cultural understanding, and a powerful catalyst for change. When all else falls short, art embodies our inner worlds and the desires we hold for the future. Mangrove Magazine believes that art-making fosters a sense of community and shared responsibility as we co-create the next world. We believe that making art is an instrinsic part of the human experience.