Articles & Essays
Scarcity, memory, and the theory of nonmonogamy
In a cafe near Templehof park in Berlin in the spring, Anna Bowen catches up with scholar and writer Simon(e) van Saarloos about their new book, Take Em Down: Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting.
The Obsidian Dream
The voices of the ghosts that are trapped in this soil blow through my ears as vibrations. Little by little, I prepare myself to be other matter by colliding with other bodies.
Seatmates
Can a transcontinental flight create space for dialogue?
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Multimedia & Performance
The Obsidian Dream
The voices of the ghosts that are trapped in this soil blow through my ears as vibrations. Little by little, I prepare myself to be other matter by colliding with other bodies.
A Sigil’s Landscape
For its first destination the Nomadic Pigment Lab travels to La Barbacoa, Dominican Republic to collaborate with artist and botanical enthusiast Eliazar Ortiz, working with natural pigments to create a unique language of sigils.
El Héroe Senegalés
The short animated film El Héroe Senegalés is an intimate portrait of Mouhammed Diof, an undocumented Senegalese migrant living in Bilbao, who leapt into a river to save someone from drowning and catalyzed a political movement.
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Editorials
The Mouth of the Wolf
Reflections from a roadside cemetery.
The Rule of the Gun
The finger on the trigger is more sacred than the life at the end of the barrel.
“And It’s True We Are Immune…”
Reflections on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
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Photo & Video
Treasure in My Mouth
With spacey synths and a disco dance beat, “Treasure in My Mouth” is an intimate portrait of self-care and resistance.
La Frontera: A Tale of Two Realities
Reflections from the edge of imperialism.
eye of water, eyes of earth
If capitalism wants to end all openings toward Enchantment-Life, may Enchantment-Life end all openings of capitalism.
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Poetry & Prose
Lung Capacity
That you tend/ the family ghosts by never hitting the children/ Speak it, even while you are breaking.
queer tongue gloss
Mavi Veloso’s queer trans language is always in flux, twisting Brazilian Portuguese and English phrases into new contortions that coat the tongue in a queer kind of gloss. Listen as she performs an essay-poem (or something like that). Supplemented by a queer abécédaire.
The Painting
Thirty-two years after Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art, it was discovered in the bedroom of a deceased woman in rural New Mexico. Only the painting knows how it got there.
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Various
Curse of Geography: Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
In the wake of the 2010 Yushu earthquake, celebrated Indonesian artist, Arahmaiani, spent ten years working with Buddhist monks on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau to cultivate sustainable rebuilding projects and amplify the voices of women in Tibetan civil discourse.
Curse of Geography: Badakhshan
In the inaccessible borderlands of Badakhshan, Tajikistan, the M41 or “Heroin Highway” serves as the primary trafficking route for opium and heroin smuggled out of Afghanistan on its way to Russia and Europe, leaving a trail of uneven development and outward migration.
Dictionary of the Queer International: Call for Participation
[pullquote]Queer speakers around the world are invited to submit words and phrases in local queer languages[/pullquote]We live in a peculiar era when both universalism and intersectional solidarity are retreating while