For the urban/modern/civilised gaze, the source of rising fascism and racism are the inferior animalistic masses who must be repressed. It serves no purpose besides codifying townsfolk who are defined through their proximity to nature as lower life forms enslaved by their savage instincts and civilization as its’ superior antithesis.
Read MoreBy writing this piece, around the 16th anniversary of Kosovo’s independence, I aim to motivate others to think more critically about Kosovo’s history and to expand our collective understanding of educational resistance movements.
Read MoreThe dictator is giving a tour through his New Museum of the Crimes of the Terrorist People which is adjacent to his third favorite Caspian palace, the gold and white one.
Read MoreArt, history and culture are also our resistance against the Israeli state because it represents a future for the Palestinian people. Documenting the past, and creating new culture and art means that there is something for Palestinians to continue building in the future.
Read MoreThis is the American in me, brought up on Disney arcs and promises of individual exceptionalism. Americanized modernity has rendered the bathroom arguably the most essential room in a modern household, but it was not always so.
Read MoreWe saw it happen to other people, to Bojack, to Diane, and we looked on in fear and awe, hoping we wouldn’t have to go through the same. We did, of course. Later on, we did.
Read MoreFrom experimental artists, musicians and DJs, to skateboarders and analog video enthusiasts; a new cultural trend -one favoring an independent and experimental approach- is making waves across the local and regional art scene.
Read MoreThat night, one of them walked into a place in Barcelona where I felt safe and didn't bother to cover the horrible nazi tattoo on his back. Instead, he acted as if he was doing the most natural thing in the world.
Read MorePerhaps he's all I'll ever be—alone, shutting out the world, stubborn. With a packet of cigarettes that my child shares in silence. Perhaps it's all I can be.
Read MoreI was convinced I would go to hell and burn. Today, even as I don’t believe in Hell anymore, the fear of burning remains.
Read MoreHow did an urban legend about a street in Istanbul named after a Japanese admiral turn into a gateway drug for fascist ideology?
Read MoreIn Syria, while under siege and chemical warfare, under the bombardment of the Assad regime and US airstrikes, under Israeli occupation in the Golan Heights and ISIS extremism; Syrian women and youth hold onto creative practices that create a sense of belonging and love during a context of total death.
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