Ojalá is a digital weekly dedicated to journalism and analysis that aims to foster a common sense of dissidence.
Through voices and perspectives anchored in action and research, Ojalá will illuminate and nurture the capacities of communities, peoples and feminist struggles in the context of ongoing territorial conflicts.
Since our launch in March of 2023, we have centred situated thinking, field reporting and reflexive translation, all while uplifting women’s writing. Ojalá is a patient, thread-spinning process that helps reveal the weaving of the struggles that traverse diverse geographies. It’s a call to understand the hemisphere from its cities, towns and regions, not from an external perspective that divides the world into blocs. An attempt to disrupt the hollow plurality of social networks.
We dress down polarized, state-centric lines of reasoning, and make space for the unexpected flows of struggle, speech, image and organization.
Ojalá is an effort to produce unhurried reflection and understanding, as well as sharing critical opinions and analysis of issues of shared concern. An experiment in reappropriating the words and arguments that explain our times.
Ojalá navigates, slow and steady, towards this horizon.
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CO-FOUNDER AND EDITOR Dawn Marie Paley
Dawn Marie Paley been a freelance journalist for almost two decades, and she’s written two books: Drug War Capitalism and Guerra neoliberal: Desaparición y búsqueda en el norte de México. She’s the editor of Ojalá.
CO-FOUNDER AND OPINION EDITOR Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar has participated in various experiences of struggle on this continent and works to encourage reflection and the production of anti-patriarchal weavings for the commons. She’s Ojalá’s opinions editor.
ASSISTANT EDITOR Kevin Hernández Martínez
COPY EDITOR Chuck Morse
ADMINISTRATION Scala Finanzas
TECH SUPPORT Técnicas Rudas
EDITORIAL BOARD Dawn Marie Paley, Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, Gladys Tzul Tzul and Claudia López Pardo.
Claudia López Pardo lives in Bolivia, where she is part of anti-patriarchal weavings and struggles. At Ojalá, she writes about the struggles of renewed feminisms in a situated way.
Gladys Tzul Tzul is Maya K’iche’ from Guatemala. She teaches and writes about communal politics and has carried out research in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and the United States. At Ojalá, she contributes towards the generation of debate among Indigenous women.
Our team strives for accuracy in our reporting, and clearly labels opinion content as such. All content-related corrections will be noted below our articles. If you have a comment or wish to request a correction, please email info@ojala.mx. Please note we do not publish letters to the editor.
If you are interested in collaborating with Ojalá, please contact us at pitch@ojala.mx. We have a small budget to pay writers and artists. We strive to respond to all pitches but please be patient, as we’re a small team.
Ojalá is a project of Estrategias y acciones indisciplinadas, a registered non-profit organization based in Puebla, México. Our U.S. fiscal sponsor is Rights Action.
We are the first Mexico-based member of the Institute for Nonprofit News, and are also a member of LION Publishers.
Ojalá operates as a non-profit with funding from small foundations and individual donors. We observe ethical guidelines around non-profit journalism in the spirit of the membership standards put forward by the Institute for Nonprofit News. We are committed to disclosing all donors who give over $5000. As of March 2024, date we received donations over that amount from the Andrómeda Foundation in Mexico (US$31,000), the Mendell Family Fund (US$5,000) and the Peter and Annie Bachman Fund (US$5,000) at the Vermont Community Fund.
We have sought funding for general operations expenses, including paying freelancers and editors. If we were to receive project specific funding we would be careful to maintain editorial control over any content produced, as well as being transparent with our readers about the nature of that support. Click here to read Ojalá’s 2023-2024 impact report.