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Refugee Archipelago: Chapter II
Memories from the first days of Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement.
Justin Kiersky
Justin Kiersky is a journalist and editorial consultant at ArtsEverywhere. He lives in Denver, CO with his wife and two children.
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Refugee Archipelago
A graphic work of reportage from Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, West Nile, Uganda.
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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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Megaflora: Magical Realism & Movement in Nature
When a successful modern dancer leaves New York in the wake of the pandemic, he returns home and experiences a creative reawakening by merging movement, activism, film, and the natural world.
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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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Butterfly with Broken Wings
Near a small village on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the brother of celebrated muxe performance artist Lukas Avendaño vanished one afternoon, leading him on a two year journey in search of his brother or his remains.
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Confessions of a Looted Soul
Victor Terán has long used poetry to preserve Zapotec language, but as wind farms envelop his hometown of Juchitán, his words have become weapons of resistance to post-colonial development that threatens the future of Zapotec culture.
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Harbour Blues, Salina Cruz
Rafael Mayoral recalls spending the idylls of his youth in Salina Cruz and the three development projects that ultimately devastated the gritty port city and left fallow farmlands, water shortages, and urban poverty in their wake.
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A Brief History of Mexico’s Transoceanic Trade Route
Since Columbus and Cortés, nearly every colonial expedition to the coasts of the Americas was driven by the desire to discover a passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and facilitate trade for the Spanish Crown. Five hundred years later, that dream will soon be realized.
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Dispatch from Aztlán
The public pool at Columbus Park in Denver’s Northside neighborhood was a place where young people could ride the wave of Chicano pride in the summer of 1971—it seemed only fitting that those who gave Columbus Park vitality and meaning should rename it La Raza Park.
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COVID-19: Spatial Clusters & the Impending Refugee Crisis
In the spring of 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the planet, refugees and humanitarian aid workers raised alarms that if the virus spread to the camps it would wreak devastating consequences on one of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
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Sketches from Solitary
In the world’s most secure prison, ADX Supermax, an artist-turned-chaplain and a local muralist set out to bring art to some of some of the world’s most notorious federal inmates as a means of transformation and, hopefully, redemption.
