I.There are people who enter our liveslike half-broken lanterns—light carried in shoeboxes,filled with waxy stamps,dust of roads no map remembers.II.Earl—your name a syllable of soil,yet you carried i...

Mothers hid their faces in their hands & daughters began to slowly weep. Too many memories of past restrictions, & from within the finger-pointing: It is the women who brought us down, said the man wi...

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"Tendency to push everything to the absolute, and thus: to the absurd." —Claude Cahun

father and father's friend

four movements of loss, rupture and return

four movements of loss, rupture and return

the drowned alphabet of tomorrow

what is it we are all dragging behind us?

If the US cuts off the cash it will have world-changing effects, but it’s not the only country falling short in its obligations

Lets stop playing games with the word “human.” By Bhakti Shringarpure.

‘Tonight is his night,’ says ex-governor as progressive state representative tells supporters ‘we made history’

Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther

here is what i want to say here is what i want to say: little bones do not make good barricades— yet every year (we tally) children: blown apart & stitched into war like threadless but...

Last year, 41,370 grave violations against children were documented and verified by the United Nations, according to the Secretary-General's annual report on children in armed conflict, released on Th...

Climate change is a main reason why humanitarian needs are soaring. Some humanitarian groups are afraid to say the words.

Bill to avert shutdown passes 54-46 but furious progressives accuse yes-vote senators of acquiescing to Trump

There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik