Across 270 pages, this second edition of Journals of Love & Literature gathers a chorus of emerging and independent voices to contemplate what it means to belong to one another. From childhood memory to generational trauma, quiet rituals to explosive ruptures, this issue honours the stories we carry, the homes we make, and the people we fight to keep close.

This edition is once again a meeting ground for diverse creative mediums: literature, photography, film stills, paintings, essays, drawings, and more. It folds high art into everyday intimacy. With the weight of a coffee table book and the readability of a long letter from a loved one, For the Family is made to be kept close, revisited, and shared.

We continue to champion queer and P.O.C voices, and centre love—as resistance, as inheritance, and as radical honesty. This issue asks you to sit at the table with us, to listen and to speak, to grieve and to rejoice.

This is a tribute to the families we come from, the families we form, and the families we’re still dreaming into being.