Moving Beyond the US: #BlackLivesMatter and Decolonization
“The white hegemonic structures killing Black people in the U.S. are the same structures allowing Israel to annex Palestine” – Tom Abi Samra’s new essay examines the BLM movement in tandem with Arab politics.
Consuming My Country
“Before the Philippines’ war on drugs and long before World War II, Japanese migrants brought [halo-halo] to my country” – Isabella Peralta examines her Filipina heritage through a popular local dessert.
A Newspaper Adaptation
New in poetry, by Arthur De Oliveira.
This is the age of
“Political sexuality and heady womanhood / Pink pussy hats and banned burqas” — Tzy Jiun Tan tackles the current global climate, approaching post-capitalist apocalypse.
Don't Let Me Be Lonely: Depicting Abstract Emotions in Writing
How can one distil or display, accurately, the complexity of something like love, or loneliness, in a single text? Vamika Sinha analyzes the work of Jamaican-American poet Claudia Rankine, and her poetic diagnoses of modern American society.