Articles & Essays
Staff Picks From the GOAT PoL #4
Over at The GOAT PoL, our eight Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) are working with scores of stateless, refugee, and disenfranchised writers, publishing one or two dozen of their new stories every week.
Staff Picks From the GOAT PoL #3
Over at The GOAT PoL, our eight Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) are working with scores of stateless, refugee, and disenfranchised writers, publishing one or two dozen of their new stories every week.
The Struggle, the Spectrum and other Absolutes
Must the artist struggle in order to create works that move the culture? Writer Ricky Tucker explores this question with Charly Dominguez, NYC artist and Ballroom community organizer.
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Multimedia & Performance
Encountering Pseudo-Territory
Yiddish anarchism meets augmented reality, Lettriste painting and Parisian squats, molten tanks and iron flags, and the praxis of hospitality.
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.
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Editorials
A Sudden Son of Revolution
An homage to a young revolutionary who continues to fight for the democratic future of Myanmar from rebel lands.
The Death of a Mozambican Rapper and Revolutionary
Thousands take to the streets of Maputo to celebrate the life and lyrics of Azagaia, one of Mozambique’s most beloved cultural icons.
Portrait of a Young Artist as a Revolutionary
In the aftermath of the 2021 coup d’etat, a photojournalist joins a rebel army to fight for Myanmar’s democratic future.
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Photo & Video
Seeds & Seeds: Tibet
Episode 4 of an ethnographic docuseries from Tibetan Yunnan that explores the decisions communities face when modern development and environmental fragility converge.
The Film: People of Flour, Salt, and Water
People of Flour, Salt, and Water is the second film made by Chto Delat as part of their series “Slow Orientation in Zapatismo.”
Seeds & Seeds: Dai
Episode 3 of the ethnographic docuseries introduces three generations of Dai artisans who are preserving Hinayana Buddhist traditions and community identity through creative means.
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Poetry & Prose
Remember when Amazon.com only sold books?
Remember when Amazon.com only sold books? In the wee hours of the night I fall down an internet hole & resurface with an air purifier “From Earth’s Biggest Selection” reads
Three poems
Ticking Bomb Does your pain bother you? Soul Meltdown
mistake
I believe that it is logically impossible / to have a mistake in nature
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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
