Rug-of-War
For nearly thirty years, Afghani weavers have incorporated images of war into hand-woven rugs
Moving Towards Life
Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism. In Jordan’s handwritten notes for her 1990 essay, “Intifada,…
Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L.
I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTEDGENOCIDE TO STOPI SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED AFFIRMATIVEACTION AND REACTIONI SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED MUSICOUT THE WINDOWSI…
COVID-19 makes a worrying comeback, WHO warns amid summertime surge
COVID-19 infections are surging globally, including at the Paris Olympics, and are unlikely to decline anytime soon, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. The UN health agency is also warning…
How to Not Be a Perfectionist
People are vividand smalland don’t livevery long—by Molly Brodak
Whiteness Riots
Whiteness riots have familiar features: police partisanship, local and national media fomentation, moral panics about crime and ‘race-mixing’, followed by calls for new criminal and immigration legislation.
Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars)
By Muriel Rukeyser
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings.
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
random number generators
anxiously rolling a handful of dice and starting to sweat.