You’re at a women’s empowerment event. Everyone on stage speaks fluently and eloquently. The language is crisp, the tone measured, and the slogans aligned. It’s a feminism that photographs well …
Heathpack (Gregory Day)
The birds live a parallel existence to us in this place. Their comings and goings. Chords and clusters. Three pelicans flying past the Moriac Store. A skein of ibis over …
Griftivism (Michele Seminara)
My first exposure to what I now call “griftivism,” a hybrid of grifting and Critical Social Justice activism, occurred in the arts. It was 2020 when—in my role as managing …
Damnatio Memoriae (Nina Power)
Well, the Romans thought they could kill a man every record, after death (you could kill him too) zero He wasn’t here he didn’t do these things no one ever …
To Sing of War (Catherine McKinnon)
December 1944 1 Lotte Nialu She hears singing: one lone voice at first, clear and resonant, a tenor, then others join in, and the song rises and falls, until it …
THE PASSION OF ANDREI (Nathan Dunne)
after A. Tarkovsky I was born of cold hands in the light of the cells. I left the arms of my mother to find reeds and smoke of the steppe. …
The False Dissension Over ‘Islamophobia’: an Iranian outlook (Ali Beikzadeh)
‘Cultural relativism commands us to see what we call our values as simple prejudices; the beliefs of a particular tribe called the West. The religion of the prophet is thus …
Analysis (Yvette Henry Holt)
In the Middle of Analysis In the middle of the night in the middle of a shared pandemic I lay on my back not falling to pieces in the middle …
Duende (Magi Gibson)
The Girl with Eyes like Dying Stars We sit in Costa, she bristling with the blue hair of her new-found tribe, tiny woodcut dolphins dancing from her ears & LOVE …
As Satellites Replace Stars (Joshua Dabelstein)
The commodification of the cosmos is having a profound impact on humanity itself On Monday March 3, 2024, at 2:05pm Pacific Time, a satellite built by small Sydney start-up Space …