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by Luiza Dale
It’s telling how telling a telling can be
It isn’t just who tells the story that makes the difference, it’s also how the story is told on the page.
by Luiza Dale

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by Teah Khadijeh Brands
The Methods that Make Us
Unraveling an expansive definition of “protective style” that unites BIPOC ways of making
by Teah Khadijeh Brands

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by Jacob Lindgren
Toward a Non-human Lens
What does it mean to film the natural world through a non-human lens? Is such a thing possible?
by Jacob Lindgren

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by Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab
With and Without a Firm Grasp
On translation, interdependence, and the generosity of Ramadan calendars (Allahu Akram)
by Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab

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by Tiana Dueck
The PLEASURE of Handmade Fashion
Purpose, Longevity, Ethics, Asymmetry, Style, Utility, Refashion, Empowerment...
by Tiana Dueck

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by C.C.
Poetry’s So Common Hardly Anyone Can Find It
More than a literary form, Poetry is the essence of inner feelings and thoughts as they relate to the external world.
by C.C.

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by Lukas WinklerPrins
Portals to Elsewhere
Surfline provides live photo or webcam video feeds of surf breaks around the world.
by Lukas WinklerPrins

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by Bryce Wilner
Tongue of the Computer
On Kamau Brathwaite’s Sycorax video style, the poet’s attempt “to put on the page what sound looked like.”
by Bryce Wilner

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by Casey Tang
On Complexity
The search for fissures in systems and networks, towards parts-to-whole relations with ecological and biophysical processes.
by Casey Tang

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by Alice Otieno
The Art of Tending to Oneself
Piecing together a framework for reflection from various practices, quotes, and ways of thinking.
by Alice Otieno

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by Michael Bell-Smith
What Do People Do All Day?
On how things are made, who gets to make them, and how labor and time gets leveraged.
by Michael Bell-Smith

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by American Artist and Zainab Aliyu
Limitlessness and Limitations: Defining Dark Matters
An assemblage of knowledge established within our mutual histories
by American Artist and Zainab Aliyu

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by Emma Rae Bruml Norton
Who Cares?
As long as computers are built to be in service of, the limits of their intelligence will always be the limits of their suzerain.
by Emma Rae Bruml Norton

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by Juliana Castro
Tenderness Shares A Root With Attention
How have tending and attention changed over time and across contexts, and what might that evolution teach us?
by Juliana Castro





