Two If By Sea directly erupted from the persistent activism of the editors' own personal work, art and lives. We wanted to create a platform that was inclusive, that welcomed activated artists and contributors, and that encouraged works that call out or reject racism, homophobia, misogyny, oppression, repression, and ecosystemic and other types of violence. That is why those ideals have always been included in our submission guidelines and editorial statement.

To state plainly, we at Two If By Sea are rigidly anti-racist and against all forms of essentializing and discrimination. We are driven by an unrelenting sense of justice and righteous indignation over the systemic discrimination and violence of our society and its institutions against Black Americans, Native Americans, women and other people who have been oppressed, and the continued brutalities, inequities, undermining, and maltreatment throughout time of these and other vulnerable communities. 
 

In every way, Two If By Sea is the alluvium created by a sea of our collective rage. We have always intended it to be a disruption.

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Two If By Sea is a journal of water. One main focus of the journal is how water bodies have been the location of displacement, environmental injustice, imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and genocide. As a location for critical and creative engagement, we aspire to nurture a space in which people may create, advocate, agitate and crack open the conventions that contributed to our current environment of human rights violations, rampant economic injustice, racism and ecological disaster that is the foundation of our society. That is the contribution we commit to—to carve out a crevice, and like the eroding power of water, have your work open up canyons.