October 2024 Volume 48, Issue 08

The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
CultureComics
Comic To Burn Down The System
"Reform" or compliance?
Ben Passmore
Culture
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
Culture
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
ViewpointCultureDepartments
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
Culture
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
ViewpointCulture
Big Back Panic: Fatphobia's Rebrand
Anti-fatness is back with a vengeance so aggressive it puts 1990s ​“heroin chic” to shame.
Tee Noir
Culture
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)
ViewpointPalestineCulture
What Happened to Protest Music?
The success of Macklemore's "Hind's Hall" offers hope for a resurgence of protest music.
Ivie Ani
PalestineInterviewCulture
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

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