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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 29/09/2026
Mahmoud Khalil could've been any of us.
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Damning. www.equator.org/articles/bid...
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Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I 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.social
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Guilty Men • EQUATOR
A new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide
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Frederick 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
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A new book thoroughly documents America's complicity in genocide www.equator.org/articles/bid...
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Guilty Men • EQUATOR
A new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide
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YSW @nasilemak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As ever, thankful to @equatormag.bsky.social What an interview. Looking forward to the book by Akbar Shahid Ahmed
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Guilty Men • EQUATOR
A new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide
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Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I 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-...
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Late Victorian Holocausts • Events • EQUATOR
6 Sep 2026, Zoom
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Sam 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...
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The Gods Are Still Crazy • EQUATOR
Separating truth from fiction in the most successful African movie of all time
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Thomas @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...
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The New McCarthyism • EQUATOR
How Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else
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Ted Reichman @tedreichman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'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...
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Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A 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?
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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Booker 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...
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How Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else
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Giulia 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...
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What I learnt from the Soviet Adventure Library
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thrilled 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...
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Socialism after AI | Dr Evgeny Morozov
6:30pm Mon 5 Oct | Dr Evgeny Morozov | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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PG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I 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...
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Dusklands • EQUATOR
Growing up in the shadow of genocide
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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you read one thing today, make it this @equatormag.bsky.social piece by the always brilliant Richard Flanagan ⬇️ www.equator.org/articles/gaz...
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The New McCarthyism • EQUATOR
How Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else
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Truth & Justice League @trujusticeleague.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else. - Richard Flanagan www.equator.org/articles/gaz...
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An 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...
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 19/09/2026
I'm on a sidequest to read everything Richard Flanagan has published, and this brilliant essay in Equator explains why: www.equator.org/articles/gaz...
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Phenomenal essay from JM Coetzee. www.equator.org/articles/dus...
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Dusklands • EQUATOR
Growing up in the shadow of genocide
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Nicholas Dawes @nicdawes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
J.M. Coetzee and F.M. Siccardi, South African and Argentina, symmetries in the shadow of colonial genocide. Essential work @equatormag.bsky.social
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Growing up in the shadow of genocide
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Sean Jacobs @seanjacobs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This, by JM Coetzee, in @equatormag.bsky.social, about an actual genocide in South Africa, is very good. www.equator.org/articles/dus...
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Anahita @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...
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Second-Class Citizens • EQUATOR
How the persistence of American Islamophobia makes it painfully clear that we are still living with the War on Terror
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Rozina Ali on how Muslims became second-class citizens in America after September 11:
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Alex 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...
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Dusklands • EQUATOR
Growing up in the shadow of genocide
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meterfeldweg.bsky.social @meterfeldweg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pin it. Read it. @equatormag.bsky.social is another level.
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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If 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...?
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Dusklands • EQUATOR
Growing up in the shadow of genocide
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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
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sudan: The Short Answer is Racism. www.equator.org/articles/sud... www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5zM...
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Sudan’s Revolutionary Ghosts • EQUATOR
How Sudan’s violent integration into global capitalism led to civil war
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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
And 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.)
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Mike Davis’s Late Victorian Holocausts: A reading group
Beginning 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...
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
On 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...
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Revolution and Counterrevolution in Sudan
A conversation between Magdi El-Gizouli and Nesrine Malik
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Paula Schaap @redsonja.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is an amazing essay: www.equator.org/articles/the...
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The Gods Are Still Crazy • EQUATOR
Separating truth from fiction in the most successful African movie of all time
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
From 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...
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Maura 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.social
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City of Sweat • EQUATOR
A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai
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Rahul Bhatia @rahulabhatia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I 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...
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Run Modi Run • EQUATOR
The bulldozer of repression will roll on, but the Cockroach protests have dented the Hindu Right’s impregnable authority
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Stella @lecieldeparis.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
Hope Against Hope Sahar Delijani in equator magazine
They are not, as they are sometimes made out to be in the West, a monolithic opposition. Like the society of which they are a part, they represent a plurality of political traditions, beliefs and strategies of resistance. While they often stand together, they do not necessarily agree on everything, including the implications of the US-Israeli attacks, which occurred at a moment when Iranian society was reeling from extreme poverty, corruption and repression.
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Samanth Subramanian @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Edinburgh, come say hello at our @equatormag.bsky.social event on Friday at the @edbookfest.bsky.social!
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Aditya 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.social
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City of Sweat • EQUATOR
A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai
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Aruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Summer 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...
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City of Sweat • EQUATOR
A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai
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Mark 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...
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City of Sweat • EQUATOR
A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai
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Aastha पास्ता @aasthauprety.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
great piece
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Robin Detje @robindetje.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ja, in Berlin war es heiß, aber: (via @equatormag.bsky.social)
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City of Sweat • EQUATOR
A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai
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Seabird @seabirdreader.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
From @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...
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The Gods Are Still Crazy • EQUATOR
Separating truth from fiction in the most successful African movie of all time
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Rahul 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?”
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 18/08/2026
It'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.
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Khartoum After the Storm • EQUATOR
How Sudan’s revolutionary generation was dragged into total war
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
During 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...
The protest at Jantar Mantar was marked by the desire for something new. The fear of consequences and authority was supplanted by the drive to speak openly. It was as if the place had become a special intellectual zone, like the Special Economic Zones the government carves out with their own rules and tax systems for the enrichment of well-connected industrialists and their favoured conglomerates. Here, in this intellectual zone, it was possible to finally speak freely again.
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elena 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...
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Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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Zito @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-...
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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Incredible essay on Sudan in two parts at Equador magazine. www.equator.org/articles/kha...
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How Sudan’s revolutionary generation was dragged into total war
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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In 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...
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Sudan’s Revolutionary Ghosts • EQUATOR
How Sudan’s violent integration into global capitalism led to civil war
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