Articles & Essays
The Story of Sim Cheong and Her Blind Father: a Korean Pansori
Watch a complete Korean pansori concert by master vocalist Il-Dong Bae and percussionist Dong-Won Kim.
Sound Practices: Learning to Think Otherwise through Musical Improvisation
Can musical improvisation teach us to think otherwise? Can it liberate us from pre-digested ways of seeing (and thinking about) the world? And how do we curate spaces that fuel these experiments in connection, possibility, and care?
Plants as Allies, Ancestors, and Guides – A Vigil
Plants as Allies, Ancestors, and Guides – A Vigil I am writing to you from Berlin, a city named after its swampy origins: Berl in Proto-Slavic means swamp, and the
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Multimedia & Performance
listening to the liminal
Learning to listen to ourselves, land, and spaces in between.
Telluric Dreaming
Through the experience of dreaming, we come closer to the planetary metabolism, connecting with an ongoing flow of mutation that allows us to feel and participate in the shapeshifting of existence…
Composting addictions and the art of being woven
Sustaining life by surrendering resistance
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Editorials
House of Closets, Or; “Piss Off Maggie, You Bastard Slag”
Past intolerances return to haunt a tormented woman in a review of Georgia Oakley’s new film Blue Jean.
The Crooks, The Thieves, Their Serfs & Their Plunder
Charles’ farcical, archaic coronation provides fresh opportunity for an overhaul of monarchy and class in the failing days of the empire.
A Sudden Son of Revolution
An homage to a young revolutionary who continues to fight for the democratic future of Myanmar from rebel lands.
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Photo & Video
Breathing 2026: Microorganisms
Artist Zhao Rongjie’s filmed documentation of her “Microorganisms” project, where she cultivates, cares for, and creates art from bacterial cellulose.
The Story of Sim Cheong and Her Blind Father: a Korean Pansori
Watch a complete Korean pansori concert by master vocalist Il-Dong Bae and percussionist Dong-Won Kim.
Wooden House /木头”房子“
A short film by Chinese artist Zhao Rongjie documenting the wooden “houses” she carved to house mushroom spore prints.
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Poetry & Prose
Black Canon, Queer Divine
Writers Ricky Tucker and Karmen Michael Smith discuss the intersections of the Black church and Ball Culture, bell hooks, Beyoncé (of course), and books that need to be written.
i speak about another future
i speak about another future there was a wild heart inside deep grave comics bread to eat pieces of stone dog enchanted-baby beloved pajubá phenomenal woman from the end of
Threadbare
Por Las Tias de la Trenza
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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
