Kaashif Hajee 9/23/21 Kaashif Hajee 9/23/21

The Pandemic Radically Altered My Relationship with India. I Don’t Know If I Can Ever Go Back

A personal essay explores navigating the COVID-19 pandemic in India, the surrounding political turmoil, and their effects on identity and belonging

Thirangie Jayatilake 8/2/21 Thirangie Jayatilake 8/2/21

Where were you?

Fiction editor Thirangie Jayatilake’s poem teems with a staccato rage at our current global state. With an accompanying image by Catalina Aranguren

Mel Adún 6/20/21 Mel Adún 6/20/21

two thousand and twenty

Originally in Brazilian Portuguese, with an English translation by Sarah Rebecca Kersley, Black feminist poet Mel Adún reflects on the day-to-day griefs of the pandemic in this haunting lyric

Ayah Rashid 3/8/21 Ayah Rashid 3/8/21

Pandemic Weddings Offer A New Happy Ever After

The pandemic, despite its horrors, has rejuvenated an alternative approach to meaningful, beautiful weddings, and made it socially acceptable. How can these changes become permanent?

Bhargavi Gopalan & Sumedha Bhattacharyya 12/7/20 Bhargavi Gopalan & Sumedha Bhattacharyya 12/7/20

Portraits of Care

Seven artists from different disciplines dance across various parts of the world in this collaborative video by Bhargavi Gopalan, Sumedha Bhattacharyya, and their co-creators

Damaris Swass 12/7/20 Damaris Swass 12/7/20

M(OTHER)WORK

Documenting the labor and love of a stay-at-home-mother, Damaris Swass’s photos peer into queer, radical motherhood and claim their own agency

Zoe Jane Patterson 11/2/20 Zoe Jane Patterson 11/2/20

Art as Service: Realizing the Value of Theater through Exit 11’s “The Bacchae”

Our Editor-in-Chief reviews a global, remotely-produced audio play within a larger conversation about how art services our lives during a pandemic

Shilpa Mridul 10/5/20 Shilpa Mridul 10/5/20

The Colors Drained Out of Lives of Migrants

महानगर के प्रवासी मज़दूर बने कैदी| When livelihood becomes a prison. Jodhpur-based artist Shilpa Mridul’s “The Colors Drained out of Lives of Migrants” draws on ancient Indian print design to address the India of today

Labdhi Shah 10/5/20 Labdhi Shah 10/5/20

Inner Isolation

Does tragedy and loneliness make for good art? Labdhi Shah’s finger-painting series seeks to dive deeper into that question in the uncertain, confined context of the global pandemic

Marta Zubieta 9/7/20 Marta Zubieta 9/7/20

Alice in Lockdown

These illustrations equate the dream logic of Wonderland with the lived political reality of COVID-19

Ruttanan Rongsawad 8/4/20 Ruttanan Rongsawad 8/4/20

One-Door Convenience Store

A short story set in Bangkok 2020, amid the pandemic, a summer romance, and a 24-hour convenience store.

Postscript Magazine 4/20/20 Postscript Magazine 4/20/20

Quarantine Archive

Quarantine Archive is a new series showcasing quarantine art and creativity from around the world. These are the home movies, paintings, poems etc submitted from bedrooms.