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80 Days: Memories of a Coup
A memoir of escape and exile from once-democratic Myanmar.
Articles & Essays
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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.
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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.
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Seatmates
Can a transcontinental flight create space for dialogue?
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Touching Elbows: The Turkish Concept of “Dirsek Teması”
When LGBTI+ people occupy physical spaces alongside other social groups in struggle, a solidarity network becomes possible. That is dirsek teması.
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In Bulgaria the Enemy is “Gender”
When a translator borrowed the term “gender” from English, the Bulgarian conservative right found a new word to weaponize.
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Curse of Geography: Lower Bottoms
The dense and layered sociocultural fabric of West Oakland – a fascinating mix of the sub/urban, industrial, and historic – has faded from public recollection yet retains a character that persists despite the dispossession the neighborhood has endured for decades.
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I want this text to be in conversation
Anna T. reads the Dictionary of the Queer International and tells us how it moves her.
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The Drop
A chance meeting in a park unearthed a treasure trove of expressive photographs documenting New York in the ’80s.
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The Roads of Yemoja: Archiving the Light
Analog triptychs from Cuba, Nigeria, and Benin depicting scenes of cultural transmission through a mixture of intimate portraits, religious ceremonies, and ritual objects from the three countries.
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Walking up the Roads of Yemoja
Fay Chiang fellow Laeïla Adjovi looks back at two years of research connecting the dots between religious systems in Benin, Nigeria, and Cuba.
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Is caring for everyone possible?
The new year has only increased the intensity of our global instability. What responsibility do we have to tend to the needs of those who make us feel unsafe?
