An insight into America’s “culture wars” using the example of Dave Chappelle to highlight the extant and emerging fault lines of artistic freedom of expression and censorship.
In the redwood forests outside Santa Cruz, author Sidd Joag’s childhood curiosities are awakened when he meets cryptozoological archivist and founder of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum, Michael Rugg, who life’s work leaves him questioning the relevance of Bigfoot’s existence versus the value of celebrating intellectual curiosity.
While the pandemic’s impact on social, political, and economic structures has been unprecedented, the uncertainty, tension, and collapse that people face on a daily basis is not.
Sign the petition: “Protect the Amazon and Indigenous rights or face international boycott.”
The starving person must have some kind of demand. My demand is simple. I ask the state to “come out and fight.”
Corky Lee was a beloved community organizer, activist, and artist who worked tirelessly on behalf of Asian-American communities, using photography to document the wave of cultural pride that swept from New York to San Francisco.
Reading between the lines of history, the author finds queer kinship in the literature left behind by his gay ancestors.
A personal letter to an mentor passed, commemorating her life and the influence she had on generations of artists in New York City.
In a time of unmediated isolation, loss and heartbreak, perhaps rediscovering our artistic passions and tapping our creative impulses can offer some respite.
The associations made in lyric reading, between words, images, ideas, silences, gaps, and centuries, form a political space—a polity brought into being by “lyric’s poignancy.”
Protecting the forest is a responsibility that is not only of the Indigenous peoples, not only of the Huni Kui people. Protecting the forest, protecting biodiversity, is a responsibility of all of humanity.
A longitudinal reflection on politics and creativity, from the author’s birth to the controversial 2020 U.S. election.