Reposted by EquatorAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 29/09/2026Mahmoud Khalil could've been any of us. 25818
Reposted by EquatorRishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Damning. www.equator.org/articles/bid... 13519
Reposted by EquatorAastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I fear that most liberal leaders are in deep denial about the urgency with which we need a Gaza reckoning before we save this country from fascism. Must-read interview: www.equator.org/articles/bid... @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social @equatormag.bsky.socialequator.orgGuilty Men • EQUATORA new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide 174
Reposted by EquatorFrederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"These are people who were shaped by the arc of post-9/11 policy in the region, and frankly they didn’t look at it with any degree of introspection or reflection.. They all have War on Terror-levels of comfort with civilian casualties." @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social 148
Reposted by EquatorRahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A new book thoroughly documents America's complicity in genocide www.equator.org/articles/bid...equator.orgGuilty Men • EQUATORA new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide 043
Reposted by EquatorYSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As ever, thankful to @equatormag.bsky.social What an interview. Looking forward to the book by Akbar Shahid Ahmedequator.orgGuilty Men • EQUATORA new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide 021
Reposted by EquatorAmy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I joined the reading group considering Mike Davis’s Late Victorian Holocausts, on earlier El Niño famines, and….this is really terrifying. More info: www.equator.org/events/late-...equator.orgLate Victorian Holocausts • Events • EQUATOR6 Sep 2026, Zoom 022
Reposted by EquatorSam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"To talk about The Gods Must Be Crazy, we have to start with the VHS tapes." I really liked this Carey Baraka exploration into the legacy of the 80s film franchise that was, for me too, a video cassette touchstone of childhood. www.equator.org/articles/the...equator.orgThe Gods Are Still Crazy • EQUATORSeparating truth from fiction in the most successful African movie of all time 121
Reposted by EquatorThomas @quintonthomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Israel was responsible for two-thirds of all press killings in the world in both 2024 and 2025. More journalists have been killed in Gaza by the IDF than in all of the Second World War." www.equator.org/articles/gaz...equator.orgThe New McCarthyism • EQUATORHow Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else 146
Reposted by EquatorTed Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm sure it's just a coincidence that my appreciation of surrealism has increased like 1000% over the last ten years. Naomi Klein wrote about this not too long ago... www.equator.org/articles/sur...equator.orgSurrealism Against Fascism • EQUATORA century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide? 041
Reposted by EquatorDr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Booker Prize-winner Richard Flanagan's @equatormag.bsky.social piece on right-wing Oz politicians' Faustian embrace of “Israel Lobby”, not out of genuine concern for Jewish people but to adopt its aggressive censorship & “defund universities, cower civil society... www.equator.org/articles/gaz...equator.orgThe New McCarthyism • EQUATORHow Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else 001
Reposted by EquatorGiulia Zornetta @gzornetta.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026“It was colonial literature, with white protagonists assisted or impeded by assorted natives; it was anti-colonial literature insofar as savages were noble, slavers were savages, and most of the protagonists were white boys learning to tell the difference” www.equator.org/articles/boy...equator.orgBoyhood • EQUATORWhat I learnt from the Soviet Adventure Library 033
Reposted by EquatorLea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Thrilled to launch our new Alternatives to Capitalism public lecture series at LSE this year with Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social on Socialism after AI, co-hosted with @equatormag.bsky.social ! www.lse.ac.uk/events/ai-so...lse.ac.ukSocialism after AI | Dr Evgeny Morozov6:30pm Mon 5 Oct | Dr Evgeny Morozov | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE 04016
Reposted by EquatorPG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I began to delve into the horrors of the Argentine occupation of Patagonia: the killings, the rapes… the concentration camps… the invisibilisation of tens of thousands of people under the fiction of a white nation that most Argentines are still happy to accept www.equator.org/articles/dus...equator.orgDusklands • EQUATORGrowing up in the shadow of genocide 031
Reposted by EquatorJessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If you read one thing today, make it this @equatormag.bsky.social piece by the always brilliant Richard Flanagan ⬇️ www.equator.org/articles/gaz...equator.orgThe New McCarthyism • EQUATORHow Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else 053
Reposted by EquatorTruth & Justice League @trujusticeleague.bsky.social · 19/09/2026How Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else. - Richard Flanagan www.equator.org/articles/gaz...equator.orgThe New McCarthyism • EQUATORHow Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else 032
Reposted by EquatorNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026An under-made point: many right-wing politicians around the world “support Israel” less out of deep concern for the Jewish state but rather as a pretext/mechanism for pursuing their domestic agenda of defunding universities, cowing civil society & curbing free speech. www.equator.org/articles/gaz...equator.orgThe New McCarthyism • EQUATORHow Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else 0216
Reposted by EquatorRaj Patel @rajpatel.org · 19/09/2026I'm on a sidequest to read everything Richard Flanagan has published, and this brilliant essay in Equator explains why: www.equator.org/articles/gaz...equator.orgThe New McCarthyism • EQUATORHow Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else 295
Reposted by EquatorJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Phenomenal essay from JM Coetzee. www.equator.org/articles/dus...equator.orgDusklands • EQUATORGrowing up in the shadow of genocide 164
Reposted by EquatorNicholas Dawes @nicdawes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026J.M. Coetzee and F.M. Siccardi, South African and Argentina, symmetries in the shadow of colonial genocide. Essential work @equatormag.bsky.socialequator.orgDusklands • EQUATORGrowing up in the shadow of genocide 041
Reposted by EquatorSean Jacobs @seanjacobs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This, by JM Coetzee, in @equatormag.bsky.social, about an actual genocide in South Africa, is very good. www.equator.org/articles/dus...equator.orgDusklands • EQUATORGrowing up in the shadow of genocide 012
Reposted by EquatorAnahita @anahita-yx.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"I don't think you can actually talk about Islamophobia without talking about empire – certainly not when it comes to the Middle East. One of Israel’s great achievements, in this period, was to make terrorism into a major concern for US foreign policy." www.equator.org/articles/sec...equator.orgSecond-Class Citizens • EQUATORHow the persistence of American Islamophobia makes it painfully clear that we are still living with the War on Terror 063
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Rozina Ali on how Muslims became second-class citizens in America after September 11: 1172
Reposted by EquatorAlex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“it was of the essence of the genocide which they had survived that communal memory was erased.” www.equator.org/articles/dus...equator.orgDusklands • EQUATORGrowing up in the shadow of genocide 032
Reposted by Equatormeterfeldweg.bsky.social @meterfeldweg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Pin it. Read it. @equatormag.bsky.social is another level. 064
Reposted by Equatordigitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If you aren't already subscribing to equator you should be. This magazine has attitude. Writing by South African Nobel prizewinner JM Coetzee www.equator.org/articles/dus...?equator.orgDusklands • EQUATORGrowing up in the shadow of genocide 054
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“Genocide is not just the destruction of a people, it is also the obliteration of that people’s store of memories and, with it, the destruction of their ability to see themselves historically.” A new essay by JM Coetzee on memory and complicity in his South African childhood 38936
Reposted by EquatorMaranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Sudan: The Short Answer is Racism. www.equator.org/articles/sud... www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5zM...equator.orgSudan’s Revolutionary Ghosts • EQUATORHow Sudan’s violent integration into global capitalism led to civil war 043
Reposted by EquatorKendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026And next week the @equatormag.bsky.social reading group for Late Victorian Holocausts is starting - you can still sign up here! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/m... (I want to do it, but the time is impossible for me.)versobooks.comMike Davis’s Late Victorian Holocausts: A reading groupBeginning 6 September, the first Equator Reading Group will be dedicated to exploring critical global history, political ecology, and the legacies of empire through Mike Davis’s landmark work Late Vic... 032
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026On Friday, we are hosting an online event featuring @nesrinemalik.bsky.social and Magdi El-Gizouli. They will discuss El-Gizouli’s monumental essay in Equator about revolution and counterrevolution in Sudan. 6pm BST / 1pm EST / 7pm CAT – free and open to all! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revolution...eventbrite.co.ukRevolution and Counterrevolution in SudanA conversation between Magdi El-Gizouli and Nesrine Malik 356
Reposted by EquatorPaula Schaap @redsonja.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This is an amazing essay: www.equator.org/articles/the...equator.orgThe Gods Are Still Crazy • EQUATORSeparating truth from fiction in the most successful African movie of all time 043
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026From our first print issue and online now: new fiction by Elnathan John – the story of a young Jehovah's Witness struggling with temptation www.equator.org/articles/bro... 031
Reposted by EquatorMaura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"What has come to be expected of millions upon millions of Mumbaikars, no matter how bad it gets, is resilience. But that resilience is coming up against hard limits of survivability." — @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @ishantankha.bsky.social @equatormag.bsky.socialequator.orgCity of Sweat • EQUATORA vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai 132
Reposted by EquatorRahul Bhatia @rahulabhatia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I wrote about the recent protests in New Delhi, and the significance of the abuse, the demands, and the graffiti for @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/run...equator.orgRun Modi Run • EQUATORThe bulldozer of repression will roll on, but the Cockroach protests have dented the Hindu Right’s impregnable authority 062
Reposted by EquatorStella @lecieldeparis.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026Hope Against Hope Sahar Delijani in equator magazine 182
Reposted by EquatorSamanth Subramanian @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Edinburgh, come say hello at our @equatormag.bsky.social event on Friday at the @edbookfest.bsky.social! 121
Reposted by EquatorAditya M @almostinfamous.bsky.social · 22/08/2026"It’s 16 June. The monsoon is late. A city that should be waterlogged by now is in fact facing the prospect of running out of water in six weeks." ; a gripping account of this year, maybe all our future years by @arunacsekhar.bsky.socialequator.orgCity of Sweat • EQUATORA vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai 01711
Reposted by EquatorAruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Summer in Mumbai was brutal and endless. The monsoon's poster child was running out of water. In a dispatch for @equatormag.bsky.social, I wrote about living with extreme heat in a broken city and limits to resilience. With🔥 images by @ishantankha.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/cit...equator.orgCity of Sweat • EQUATORA vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai 4192114
Reposted by EquatorMark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026"What has come to be expected of millions upon millions of Mumbaikars, no matter how bad it gets, is resilience. But that resilience is coming up against hard limits of survivability." www.equator.org/articles/cit...equator.orgCity of Sweat • EQUATORA vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai 01911
Reposted by EquatorRobin Detje @robindetje.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Ja, in Berlin war es heiß, aber: (via @equatormag.bsky.social)equator.orgCity of Sweat • EQUATORA vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai 054
Reposted by EquatorSeabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 21/08/2026From @equatormag.bsky.social, a thoughtful piece on The Gods Must Be Crazy, the improbably successful (and controversial) South African film that made a star of N!xau ǂToma. www.equator.org/articles/the...equator.orgThe Gods Are Still Crazy • EQUATORSeparating truth from fiction in the most successful African movie of all time 053
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Rahul Bhatia on the Cockroach protests: “At what point do all these government missteps – and the small humiliations people live with in this country – at what point do people say, Enough is enough?” 022
Reposted by Equators. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 18/08/2026It's really hard to find coverage of what's happening in Sudan outside of internationally-focused publications like Equator. This is a fantastic, incredibly detailed, two-part piece.equator.orgKhartoum After the Storm • EQUATORHow Sudan’s revolutionary generation was dragged into total war 09948
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026During the Cockroach protests, something shifted: for a moment, thousands of Indians spoke freely about the Modi government in a way that hadn't felt possible for years. Rahul Bhatia was there. In a new piece for Equator, he asks what happens next: www.equator.org/articles/run... 095
Reposted by Equatorelena razlogova @erazlogo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"Equator...is a venture that aims to create a more cosmopolitan home for thought and art than the one assigned to them by provincial Western periodicals." A new magazine worth supporting—zero articles from a navel-gazing US or European perspective on the front page! www.equator.org/about/what-w...equator.orgEQUATOREquator is a magazine of politics, culture and art. 084
Reposted by EquatorZito @zeets.bsky.social · 14/08/2026“In order to understand how modern slavery came to be institutionalised in the Sierra Tarahumara, it is necessary to understand how drug cartels have evolved in recent decades – and how their relationship with the state has changed, too.” www.equator.org/articles/we-... 12811
Reposted by EquatorPavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Incredible essay on Sudan in two parts at Equador magazine. www.equator.org/articles/kha...equator.orgKhartoum After the Storm • EQUATORHow Sudan’s revolutionary generation was dragged into total war 1138
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026In the second part of his monumental essay, Magdi El-Gizouli shatters the story that Sudan’s civil war is a lawless free-for-all and instead reveals how it is the direct result of the country’s integration into the global capitalist order. www.equator.org/articles/sud...equator.orgSudan’s Revolutionary Ghosts • EQUATORHow Sudan’s violent integration into global capitalism led to civil war 0109
