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 dialogue with the Qur'an, Ayesha Siddiqi's poem "Sand" animates the inanimate, exploring what toils "in the machinery of the world." The post Sand appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
Rebecca Ruth Gould interviewed the Nasrallah family—Rachel Corrie died in 2003 defending their house—and the al-Najjars to speak about both families' experience of fleeing to Egypt alongside many other Palestinian refugees. Imprisoned by an uncertain legal status, they are unable to truly rebuild their lives. The post A Cold Welcome in Egypt appeared first on Protean Magazine.| Protean Magazine
In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation. The post Planning Against Palestine appeared first on Protean Magazine.| 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
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
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
