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we are mystery and matter in motion
This set of exercises is an invitation to dance with the unknown; with the mystery inside you, and between you and everything.
Community
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Sound Practices: Learning to Think Otherwise through Musical Improvisation
Can musical improvisation teach us to think otherwise? Can it liberate us from pre-digested ways of seeing (and thinking about) the world? And how do we curate spaces that fuel these experiments in connection, possibility, and care?
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Rise Up & Vote: The Triumph of Democracy
A refugee produced and directed documentary that provides rare insight into the structures of electoral politics and self-governance in Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda where the first female candidate was elected to the Refugee World Council.
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Lxs Dos: Ingenious and Indigenous
A Mexican-American lawyer and human rights activist examines symbolism and meaning in two works of public art that reflect the struggles of life and maleffects of migration policies on the borderlands.
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Power and Place in the Work of Border Artists
A borderlands historian reflects on the work of border artists to understand how their art activates memory in a place where the educational system, media, popular culture, and the political system work vigorously to suppresses memories and history.
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Creative Misuse of A.I.
Artist Eryk Salvaggio presents a personal history of algorithmic resistance in the creative arts, while revealing the shortcomings of A.I. tools and development.
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Staff Picks From the GOAT PoL #12
Over at The GOAT PoL, our nine Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) are working with scores of stateless, refugee, and disenfranchised writers, publishing a dozen or more of their original stories every week.
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Black Canon, Queer Divine
Writers Ricky Tucker and Karmen Michael Smith discuss the intersections of the Black church and Ball Culture, bell hooks, Beyoncé (of course), and books that need to be written.
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Akha
A full-length documentary set on the frontiers of China and Southeast Asia that offers an intimate, layered view into one of the region’s most marginalized and misunderstood ethnic groups.
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Between Blackness: Ball Culture’s Influence on Black Straight Men
A Black, straight man disrupts his notion of allyship and masculinity when he encounters the Ballroom communities in Toronto and New York.
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The Last That Could
A graphic work of mixed media storytelling about ecological disaster and the last generation who can change the fate of humanity.
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Journey to Topaz
A long-awaited family reunion at Topaz, a World War II Japanese internment camp in remote Utah, reanimates a swell of memories from the past.
