People Without Exception: An Interview With Divya Dwivedi • Protean Magazine
Kamran Baradaran & Anthony Ballas interview Indian philosopher Divya Dwivedi about caste, Brahmanism, the threats against her life, and more.| Protean Magazine
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
Kamran Baradaran & Anthony Ballas interview Indian philosopher Divya Dwivedi about caste, Brahmanism, the threats against her life, and more.| Protean Magazine
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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
Poet Fadairo Tesleem's "almost a love poem" explores the fervor and agony of being in love while the world collapses around us. The post almost a love poem appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
In "Cetaphil," poet and musician Grant Pavol presents a brief, absurdist vignette that transforms a pharmacy's skincare aisle into a theater of commodity fetishism. The post Cetaphil appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
Charlotte Rosen reviews Bench Ansfield's new book, Born in Flames—a stunning and revelatory analysis of the systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes that were perpetrated by landlords and insurance companies in the Bronx during the 1970s.| Protean Magazine
Mallika Singh interviews poet and organizer Lupita Limón Corrales, whose new collection, ESTA BOCA ES MÍA, has now been published by nueoi press. Corrales's poems, Singh writes, are "a testament to the dissolution of self, to the collective voice." The post Love Spells, Dying Empires: A Conversation with Lupita Limón Corrales appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
In "1981," poet mónica teresa ortiz presents a collage of cultural detritus and personal reflections, concluding with a fundamental question: "What if John Hinckley Jr. had been a better shot?"| Protean Magazine
Pranay Somayajula interrogates the insidious rhetorical tactics of far-right Hindutva ideologues like Indian PM Narendra Modi and the BJP and RSS, who tacitly sanction pogroms while staying at arm's length from the violence.| Protean Magazine
Urvi Kumbhat reviews the new novel from author Vivek Shanbhag (trans. Srinath Perur). Originally written in southwest India's Kannada language, Sakina's Kiss has been republished in the U.S. by McNally. Trading keenly on romance tropes and genre signifiers, Shanbhag uses the figure of the class traitor to turn up bourgeois contradictions.| 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
In "i love you more than the law will let me," poet and journalist Jacqui Germain extols the barricade, the torched precinct, and the looted storefront as the highest expressions of revolutionary tenderness.| Protean Magazine
