In the mountains of Yunnan Province, near China’s southwestern frontiers, conceptual artist Zhao Rongjie has spent months collecting and documenting rare endemic fungus species with local mushroom hunters.
Testimonies from South Sudanese women rebuilding their lives in Zone 2 of Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, and an ex-rebel soldier who fled from his past to seek peace in Uganda.
COVID long-haulers can’t and won’t be left behind. We’re inviting you to join us in a necessary and shared reckoning with the pandemic’s ongoing toll, and in the making of a new world.
When an anarchist hosts a blog it becomes a polity. Dennis Cooper’s features literature (and GIF novels).
How will we read and write—how will we make literature—after the global economy has collapsed? Nyasha Bhobo tells us how they get it done in Zimbabwe.
During the early years of the U.S. Secret War in Laos, hundreds of villagers hid from the cluster bombs in a deep cave, where they carved out a community over four years until they were detected by a passing U.S. reconnaissance aircraft one afternoon in November 1968.
Provoked by blind spots in a recent New York Times piece about “the African literary scene,” Zimbabwean writer Audrey Simango reports on the conditions she finds on-the-ground for millennial African writers today. The conditions look good.
For our last workshop in the Rewilding Borikén series, we made cordage with local cattail leaves and plantain bark––hands-on exercises that were accompanied by a selection of spoken word readings on the history of weaving and text.
New legislation in Canada is making it easier than ever to receive medical assistance in dying, but disability activists are sounding the alarm.
Facilitating a writing group at a temporary emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness during a pandemic has its ups and downs.
Medically-managed birthing practices in Trinidad and Tobago are bound to the country’s colonial history. A contemporary resurgence of home births attended by midwives marks an important period in contemporary health care in the country.
Brazilian Indigenous peoples’ lives are on the line to defend our chance to have a future. They need our help now; we need to wake up. It is time to take a last stand for Indigenous rights, for the Amazon, for the climate, and for the planet.