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Revelling in Black Vitality
An interview with Derrais Carter about Black Revelry, a collection of ekphrastic writing describing Ernie Barnes’ iconic painting, The Sugar Shack.
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Is the Yiddishland Pavilion a model for transnational collaboration in the globalized art scene?
The term “Yiddish art” could imply essentialist and contentious geopolitical and identitarian meanings of Yiddishness. Instead, Suzana Milevska asks if the Yiddishland Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale is one way to embrace the diversity that a diaspora brings to art, culture, and identity.
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Book Material
The solidarity and affection of independent publishing networks As a child, I remember desperately wanting a journal with a magnetic seal like my friends had at the time. Our family’s
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Neither Fish Nor Fowl
The origins of “pato” in Queer Boricua lexicon.
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“Here is my story”: an account of writing, responding, and revising
How can a piece of writing build trust across continents, cultures, and contexts? We find out in these parallel reflections between two writers.
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Encountering Pseudo-Territory
Yiddish anarchism meets augmented reality, Lettriste painting and Parisian squats, molten tanks and iron flags, and the praxis of hospitality.
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Everything U Want
Track 8 from Travesti Biológica features vocals from multidisciplinary artist Ivy Monteiro.
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enTR4V4
With enTR4V4, Mavi takes us on a voyeuristic tour of various bedrooms to an insistent four-on-the-(boudoir)-floor rhythm.
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Treasure in My Mouth
With spacey synths and a disco dance beat, “Treasure in My Mouth” is an intimate portrait of self-care and resistance.
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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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Names
The fifth video from the album Travesti Biológica celebrates the cultural turn when we claim terms that once were used to oppress.
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Lesben, Schwuchtel, and Creative Punctuation: Queer(ing) the German Language
The emergence of queer terminology in a language as gendered as German calls for creative appropriation and disruptive recombination.
