Articles & Essays
Book Material
The solidarity and affection of independent publishing networks As a child, I remember desperately wanting a journal with a magnetic seal like my friends had at the time. Our family’s
Neither Fish Nor Fowl
The origins of “pato” in Queer Boricua lexicon.
Strange, Delightful, Impure Frolic
Re-imagining relationships between complicated species
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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
Apologetic Backlash
While the pope stood in front of cameras apologizing for Canada’s residential school system, religious media outlets continued a campaign of denialism.
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.
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Photo & Video
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.
What Remains: Part 1
Capturing the dreams carried by migrants across the border and the detritus abandoned in the Mexican desert.
Every Day, We Pass Through
A 24 hour chronicle of the dramatic and sudden transformation of a close-knit urban community in the Cold Mountains of western China.
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Poetry & Prose
mistake
I believe that it is logically impossible / to have a mistake in nature
The dream of bodies
Four poems from the forthcoming collection, “Lent”
Lung Capacity
That you tend/ the family ghosts by never hitting the children/ Speak it, even while you are breaking.
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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
