In late September, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur died in Cuba a free woman. Orisanmi Burton celebrates her life and her unceasing dedication to the revolutionary struggle for liberation from U.S. empire and all that it entails. The post Assata Is Welcome Here appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
Rawad Wehbe writes with an extended critique of the shallow representationalism and tokenization that have marked the orientation of leading Western media spaces towards Palestinian poetry. Rather than engaging with a flourishing new poetics and a rich tradition, establishment publications are all too ready to relegate diversity to one representative—Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha being a notable example. The post The End of Palestine in English appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
This excerpt is drawn from Mousa Alsadah’s foreword to the collected writings of Wasim Said—a Gaza survivor who, writing as he fled the killing, recorded stories of unthinkable horror and suffering. Said's writings are being published as "Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: A Testimony from Gaza," forthcoming from 1804 Books. The post [Excerpt] Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
Kate Wagner's essay in Protean: Issue V explores the art and life of the Yugoslavian painter France Micheli , who was an interpreter of nature, ritual, and, in many ways, an interrogator of death. His introspective yet universalizing work, like his famous depictions of the folk deity Kurent, breath with fevered nightmares and inexhaustible richness.| Protean Magazine
