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Puro
The latest video from Travesti Biológica affirms the need for self-respect, self-care, and empowerment.
Power
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Apologetic Backlash
While the pope stood in front of cameras apologizing for Canada’s residential school system, religious media outlets continued a campaign of denialism.
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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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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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Goat Literature: A Future PoL
Trained to be producers and consumers in a marketplace of literature, most writers don’t know how to be citizens of a polity. In the concluding essay of the Polity of Literature series the editor, Matthew Stadler, proposes an experiment to help us: The GOAT PoL (The Geopolitical Open Atlas of The Polity of Literature).
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Gale
Like the act of pruning a plant, we hurt to trigger growth. In the scarring processes we heal our wounds of memory, of thought, of soul.
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Non-Monogamy Letter #3
In the midst of a lockdown, Simon(e) van Saarloos questions their relationship to time, to dreams, to public space, and to the sexuality of voles.
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Collectively Imagining a More Just World
Travis Ray ComesLast committed a terrible crime, but what should happen next? Stories of injury and stories of repair involve us all. We must tell and receive these stories collectively.
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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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Reflections on Existential Preliminaries to a Resistant Polity in Literature and Beyond
In Berlin, writer and philosopher Fred Dewey created a functioning polity of literature by inviting small groups of strangers to meet, discuss, and read out loud from Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition.
