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Mine for Yours: DC’s Blog is a Lit Community
When an anarchist hosts a blog it becomes a polity. Dennis Cooper’s features literature (and GIF novels).
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Good News for African Writers
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.
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Nowhere to Hide
Vocal improvisers share their perspectives on the unique functions of voice within musical performances, being at once both vulnerable and powerful.
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Our Boxy Circle: Writing in an Emergency Shelter
Facilitating a writing group at a temporary emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness during a pandemic has its ups and downs.
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Zines From a Revolution
In his lifetime, writer and activist Charles Shively filled his Boston rowhouse with the printed residue of 20th-century queer liberation. His friend Michael Bronski recalls what he found when packing it up for the Beinecke Library archive—poetry at the heart of politics.
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Gay Ancestry
Reading between the lines of history, the author finds queer kinship in the literature left behind by his gay ancestors.
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Exploring the Polity of Comics: Queer Kinship in Gay Comix
The editor of ArtsEverywhere, Shawn Van Sluys, looks at the special features that the comics form brings to politics, and the uses various North American countercultures have made of them.
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Improvised Existence
This podcast features elements of improvisation in daily life for a first-generation immigrant to Canada. Featuring TV producer, Amit Tandon.
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Fan Fiction is What a Polity of Literature Looks Like
Readers who love what they read sometimes become writers of the same stories. They call it “fan fiction,” even if copyright lawyers call the police. Juli Parrish asks what happens collectively when the line between reading and writing dissolves.
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“Cooperation is built from the ground up…” at Leeszaal Rotterdam West
A Rotterdam activist tells the story of his neighbourhood’s recent effort to make its own reading room after the local library branch closed.
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“You are on the enemy list of The Black Tarantula.”
In the space of her writing the legendary Kathy Acker found an arsenal of voices that gave her agency and opened readers and writer to a volatile politics. Her biographer, Jason McBride, recalls Acker’s boldest, early efforts.
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Building the Parallel Polis
A polity of literature can assemble in myriad ways and places. American artist and writer, Anne Focke, considers two examples: the “parallel polis” of 20th-century Czech resistance to Soviet domination; and a practice called “the dynamics of difference,” rooted in the work of Native American tribes in the Humboldt Bay area of California.