Victoria Livingstone

Victoria Livingstone is a writer, scholar, and editor. Her work has been published in outlets including Time, The Washington Post, and Off Assignment. She is the translator of Pablo García's Song from the Underworld, a book of contemporary Maya poetry. She holds a doctorate in Hispanic literature, was a Fulbright scholar in Brazil, and is currently the managing editor of MLN, a journal of literary scholarship published by Johns Hopkins University Press. For more of her writing, see her website: https://victorialivingstone.net

Aquaduhka

By May 19, 2025
Mothers and young children, however, recreate an original and innovative language… a form of communication that exists outside of hierarchies. Babble is “an overlooked path of insurgency.”