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Circus or Seminary: Are those the Choices in the Iran/West Conflict?
Daanish Mustafa Professor in Critical Geography King’s College, London Email: daanibahi@yahoo.com Note: First published in The Friday Times Notwithstanding the heart-rending scenes of 164 primary school girls murdered in the joint US/Israeli strikes on Iran, many in the liberal West and East are hoping for a regime change to liberate the Iranian women.…
Ending American Exceptionalism: Common Futures Beyond Empire
“At the end of capitalism, which is eager to outlive its day, there is Hitler. At the end of formal humanism and philosophic renunciation, there is Hitler.” — Aimé Césaire, Discourses on Colonialism, 1955:37. “To will oneself free is also to will others free.” – Simone De Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 1947. Sangeeta Kamat,…
Pedagogy of Hope: Of Dialogues and Encounters
Beaudelaine Pierre This article is a part of AGITATE! Vol 6 (2026): Pedagogy of Hope an inclusive and transformative possibility of any/all feminist thought must fundamentally take into account the special and particular ways of seeing that Black and other marginalized female scholars bring to the knowledge production process, not as biological constructions but as…
Poruka iz Gaze spisateljice Amal Abu Asi
Mir s vama, Ovo je moja zadnja poruka. Ako vam bude pogodno dijeliti, bit ću zahvalna. Ako odemo, presavijte našu stranicu trajno. Istrgnite Palestinu iz bilježnice svog sjećanja, jer ne treba vam više. Prijateljima kažite kako je jednom bilo nade, a onda se ugasila. Živite dalje kao da nije ni bilo nas — igrajte igre,…
Decolonize Bangladesh’s Dominant Environmentalism
Decolonizing, that is attentive to our complicities, is more than a practice of critique and reflection. It is an insurgent orientation toward political futuring or prefiguring—one that reclaims planning, environmental knowledge, and memory from the logics of dispossession. It involves making space for radically different epistemologies and practices that emerge from the daily lifeworlds of riverine communities.
গাজ্জার চিঠি, আমাল আবু আসি
আসসালামু আলাইকুম, এটাই আমার শেষ বার্তা। যদি তুমি ভাবো এটা শেয়ার করা যায়, কৃতজ্ঞ থাকবো। যদি আমরা চলে যাই, আমাদের পৃষ্ঠাকে ভাঁজ করে রেখো চিরতরে। তোমার স্মৃতির খাতা থেকে ফিলিস্তিন মুছে ফেলো, তোমার তো আর ফিলিস্তিনকে দরকার নেই। তোমার বন্ধুদের বলো, একদিন সেখানে আশা ছিল, পরে তা মিটে গেছে। এমন ভাবে জীবন চালিয়ে যাও, যেন…
A message from Gaza, from the writer Amal Abu Asi
Amal Abu Asi This poem was originally published on Jewish Voice for Labor on October 18th, 2024. Bangla translation by Mohymeen Layes Croatian translation by Vera Vujović Peace be upon you, This is my final message. If you see fit to share it, I would be grateful. If we depart, fold away our page…
Feminists For a Free Palestine. Stop the Genocide. End the Occupation. Arms Embargo now! — Diverse Feminist Collective, Bangladesh, April 2025
Feminists For a Free Palestine. Stop the Genocide. End the Occupation. Arms Embargo now! As feminists, activists, artists, researchers, and organizers who are rooted in movements, and movement building for the right to self-determination, we stand in solidarity with our comrades resisting genocide and are joining the fight for liberation of Palestine. We refuse…