Al Satwa
Venezuelan photographer Andrea Salerno Jácome shares a photo essay on the Satwa neighborhood in her current base Dubai, accompanied with both Spanish and English versions of a reflection on being a migrant in this ‘temporary city’
Space/Time
As an Iranian female artist based in Arkansas, Ziba Rajabi’s work revolves around the desire to reconcile her relationship with two distinctive spaces: her homeland, Tehran, and place of residence, Arkansas.
Appa
“remind / my taste buds that they are alive” – in this evocative poem, Thirangie Jayatilake relishes the foods that connect her to families and cities.
Aircraft Cabin
A tender poem on identifying home in impermanence, movement and transience.
powerful woman
“and what is a line but divide but a border but fate but a worry” – Vamika Sinha explores her postcolonial identity trapped between two sides of the equator, and reclaiming power over her sense of belonging as a woman.
fourth wall
“home is old / selves trapped / in the flaking paint / of the fourth wall” - Vamika Sinha presents nostalgia for the childhood home in this new poem.
Alien
“I’m caught on the hook like a / Gasping fish and then laid on ice” – Tzy Jiun Tan navigates the city as an outsider, a woman, what makes her “alien.”
le marais
An outsider walking through the streets of Paris’ trendy Marais district.