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DispatchCulture

This Chicago Nightclub is Reimagining Safety Through Community Care

"What's a bigger liability? People using substances … or somebody dying from an overdose in your bathroom when you could have had something to prevent that overdose?”

Sonal Soni

PalestineCultureEn Español

Carta de Gaza: "El canto de los pájaros en un momento; los misiles al siguiente."

"Esto es Gaza, una existencia amarga, en la que cada día nos acercamos más al borde del abismo."

Eman Ashraf Alhaj Ali

PalestineCulture

Letter From Gaza: "Birdsong One Minute, Missiles the Next"

"We live a bitter existence, facing the specter of death daily, under the weight of an unjust oppressor."

Eman Ashraf Alhaj Ali

ViewpointCulture

Climate Disaster Is Here—and the State Will Never Save Us

"States demonstrate, again and again, that not only do they not protect the Earth, they facilitate its destruction." Dean Spade on the promise of speculative fiction and a review of The Ministry for the Future and The Deluge.

Dean Spade

Culture

“Prison Itself Is Censorship”: Mariame Kaba on the Freedom to Read

52 years after the Attica uprising, a new exhibit closing this week by the author of “We Do This ’Til We Free Us” explores carceral book bans.

Jack McCordick

CultureThe Socialism Issue

Capitalism Is Not “The One”

An exclusive excerpt from Malaika Jabali's new book, It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism, a guide to socialism for budding anti-capitalists.

Malaika Jabali

PalestineCulture

"We Call It a Policy of Slow Killing”: Why so Many Called for the Release of Walid Daqqah

Daqqah, a Palestinian who spent almost four decades in an Israeli prison, served his full sentence but it was extended. He was terminally ill and denied adequate care. News broke of his death on April 7. These are some of his writings.

Dalia Taha and Walid Daqqah

PalestineCulture

Art Against Occupation

Malak Mattar's London show examines the U.K.' s role in Palestinian colonization.

Matt A. Hanson

ViewpointCulture

No Parties on a Dead Planet: It’s Time We Reimagine Burning Man

Why this ecologically devastating escapist drug party just hits differently in 2023.

Corinne Loperfido

CultureThe Socialism Issue

Meet the Left YouTubers Blowing Up the Alt-Right Pipeline

The Right has flooded the internet with misinformation. The content creators of BreadTube are doing something about it.

Armand D. Jackson, Ivonne Ortiz and Xuandi Wang

ViewpointCulture

On Lizzo and Sex and Bananas, Oh My!

At the end of the day, the Lizzo story is not about sex: it’s about labor.

Yasmin Nair

LaborCulture

Tyler Childers’ New "In Your Love" Video Marries the Joy of Queer Love With the Horrors of Black Lung

Childers' new music video for "In Your Love” is a striking portrait of queer resilience—and coal baron greed.

Kim Kelly

Culture

What Succession Teaches Us About Capitalism

The HBO hit series reminds us capitalism cannot be reformed, it must be destroyed.

Yasmin Nair

InterviewCulture

Jail Support Won't Stop Until Everyone Is Free

"Until the jails go away, we're staying."

Hana Urban

InterviewCulture

Meet the New Queer Archive Creating a Home for Trans Films

While trans rights are under attack globally, Otherness Archive is creating a revolutionary space for artists that shows their “full, glorious complexity.”

Meggie Gates and Hana Urban

Culture

From Illinois to Tennessee, Drag Performers are Resisting Anti-Trans Legislation

An explosion of bans on drag performance and gender-affirming care have surged nationwide. The community is fighting back.

Henry Hicks IV

Culture

Succession Series Finale: Here Be No Monsters

On Succession and the mobility of capitalism.

Yasmin Nair

Culture

Even Breathing Is Strange: Reflections on the Anniversary of George Floyd’s Murder

A poem and essay on black motherhood—and life.

Cassie Williams

InterviewCulture

“I Think I’m Done Striving”: Delia Cai Against the American Dream

After writing her debut novel, the Central Places author turns her ambitions to her community

Jireh Deng

InterviewCulture

Jorts The Cat Wants You To Fight Back

We sat down with the labor movement’s favorite feline to talk about intersectional power, using Twitter for organizing and how his co-workers keep him from falling into the trash.

Aparna Gopalan

Culture

"The poem refuses to be a good worker"

José Olivarez and Antonio Salazar use poetry and photography to dive into the nuances of their Mexican American experience.

José Olivarez and Antonio Salazar

LaborCulture

The Hard Head and Wild Heart of Barbara Ehrenreich

Revisiting Nickel and Dimed, Dancing in the Streets, and many more of the late author's groundbreaking books.

Sarah Jaffe

DispatchCulture

Slaying the Gold-Hungry Dragon

D&D players won an epic victory against corporate power. Here’s how they did it.

Rohan Montgomery

Culture

A Community Archive Documents Decades of Radical Activism Against Police Brutality

A look at Interference Archive's “Defend / Defund” exhibit.

Rohan Montgomery