
Activism

On his debut film, The Inheritance, which weaves together histories of the MOVE organization, the Black Arts Movement, and his own time in a Black Marxist collective.

The composer and multimedia artist on raising awareness of the Asian experience during the pandemic.

Think high-rises, gated communities, all the places that give you a twitch of existential dread. The Amazon shipping facilities, the dying superstores, the prisons and detention centers, the pig farms, all the boxes that hold products and people and animals, the LeCorbusian landscape one skirts over or through, avoids.
An excerpt from Unferths’s novel Barn 8 (Graywolf).

The writer on romance under capitalism, Nietzsche, sex work, and freedom from the tyranny of the sentence.
I disrupt the concupiscence of tube worms / where your snowy owl eye consults among white crusts / the venom of my gymnodactyl eye / which bribes the slag of trilobites

Two artists drawing from punk, graffiti, and traditional Native American aesthetics, talk about protest art and the notion of the “Post-Smithsonian delinquent.”

The poet on prison writing, collective art-making, Bay-area resistance, and being read in a thousand years.

A New York- and Cairo-based artist unpacks her understanding of heritage and how it can operate in contemporary art.

On the day of POTUS 45’s inauguration, alt-right front man Richard Spencer was punched in the face during an interview for Australian television.

“Activism always involves a kind of coalition building, but the kind of community art is capable of building extends further, to the dead and the unborn.”
