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Comic To Burn Down The System

"Reform" or compliance?

Ben Passmore

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Crosswords for Change

Puzzle solvers and constructors are building a new world for games.

Kaitlin Hsu (徐欣)

CultureComics

Vote Harder

This graphic novel is dreaming up alternatives to electoral politics.

Matt Bors

FeatureCulture

Rehearsing the Future

A festival of healing justice models how we practice revolutionary care and liberation.

Panthea Lee (李佩珊)

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Love, Life and Revolution

An excerpt from former Palestinian prisoner Wisam Rafeedie’s autobiographical novel <i>The Trinity of Fundamentals</i>.

Wisam Rafeedie

Culture

"Five Times Daily, They Count Us As Cattle"

Two poems on incarceration.

PHILLIP VANCE SMITH, II

DispatchCulture

Menopause in a Prison Cell

More women than ever are experiencing menopause behind bars—and facing barriers to care.

Kwaneta Harris

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Poetry: Another Democracy is America's Experiment and I am Tired of History's Repetition

America, when you come for me, I’m coming with sound in the streets, with a murder of mothers murking their way through the mud.

Golden

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The Ways We Show Up After November 5

My sights are set on lifting up art that pushes for a world with disability justice and abolition and queer liberation, a future in which Palestine and Sudan and the Congo are free.

Sherell Barbee

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It’s Important I Remember That I’m Avoiding the Footage

Two poems on Tyre Nichols and the spectacle of police-sanctioned Black death.

Cortney Lamar Charleston

DispatchCulture

Mutual Aid and Mosh Pits

Punks are stepping up for their communities—one show at a time.

Briana L. Ureña-Ravelo

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Big Back Panic: Fatphobia's Rebrand

Anti-fatness is back with a vengeance so aggressive it puts 1990s ​“heroin chic” to shame.

Tee Noir

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We Caught Up with Tkay Maidza, Akenya and Angry Blackmen to Talk About Their Sonic World Building

With summer festival season behind them, musicians Tkay Maidza, Akenya and Angry Blackmen look ahead.

DMB (D-M Brown)

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What Happened to Protest Music?

The success of Macklemore's "Hind's Hall" offers hope for a resurgence of protest music.

Ivie Ani

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Poetry Against Imperialism

Mosab Abu Toha, Safia Elhillo, José Olivarez and Jake Skeets discuss the power of poetry in genocidal times.

Porsha Olayiwola

CultureDepartments

Freedom of Expression, Unless It’s Your Hair

To dismantle texturism, we first need to acknowledge its existence.

J. Patrick Patterson

FeaturePalestineCulture

June Jordan on Palestine and American Delusions

In these excerpts of "Life After Lebanon" and "Waking Up in the Middle of Some American Dreams," June Jordan insists on the ever-present need for coalition building across difference.

Sherell Barbee and June Jordan

FeatureCulture

Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship

In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.

Sherell Barbee and Toni Morrison

Culture

Punk Rock Karaoke

A love letter to Midwestern punks.

Bianca Xunise

Culture

Reflections on the 10-year Anniversary of the Ferguson Protests

I don’t blame Michael Brown for having a smoking habit. Nor will I blame the boy for stealing a pack of smokes on August 9, 2014.

Sherell Barbee and Jacqui Germain

InterviewCulture

Goodbye Julia Brings Sudan Front and Center

Director Mohamed Kordofani discusses how the film became a powerful exploration of injustice and reconciliation.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied

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No, JoJo Siwa Did Not Invent Gay Pop

Let’s not erase the icons that came before us.

Briana L. Ureña-Ravelo

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Weaving a Feminist Movement

Women in Bengaluru are unraveling patriarchy, stitch by stitch, song by song.

Panthea Lee (李佩珊)

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This Earth Day, Common Ground Urges us to Rethink Our Relationship With Soil

Regenerative agricultural practices can be transformative, but only if we let them.

Siri Chilukuri