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“We can do everything, but we can’t do it all at once”: Motherhood, Children’s Books and Activism in cConversation with Madelaine Cahuas
Fatemeh Nasr Esfahani & Wendy Lutter with Madelaine Cahaus Madelaine: Good morning. Hi, everyone! How are you all doing?[1]This conversation took place on December 1st, 2023, via Zoom, from 11:30 AM to 1:15 PM. Fatemeh: We’re doing great. We’re so excited that you can give us some time. Madelaine: Thank you. Fatemeh: Ok, so…
Making Home, Not Taking It: Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Zionism from South Africa Today
By Koni Benson This article was originally published on African Arguments (February 17, 2024), and is republished here with the author’s permission. It is common to hear people say that history repeats itself, but history does not repeat itself; people repeat themselves, which is why it is important to place the struggle for Palestinian liberation,…
Solidarity with Palestine from Kashmir: Kashmiri translations of Refaat Alareer’s ‘If I Must Die’
Introduction by Ather Zia Translations by Idrisa Pandit & Ather Zia Glued to the small phone screen watching the genocide unfold in Gaza, Refaat Alareer’s interview crossed my feed. It was a heart-wrenching interview. A tearful Refaat was trying to reason with the world, defending his people’s struggles, and predicting his killing most accurately. His…
The Gatherer’s Call: For the Love of Prayer and Protest
By Humera Afridi Power, kinship, beauty, and grace evince themselves in unified, embodied supplication. Hope and victory reside in solidarity. This protest was prayer in action. There is a certain magic to Jummah. That midday hour on Friday is imbued with a sweetness which on some lucky Fridays extends a numinous quality all the…
Stories, Healing, Transformation: A Conversation with Amoke Kubat
In October 2023, Amoke Kubat—artist, storyteller, activist, and performer—visited Approaches to Knowledge and Truth: Ways of Knowing in Development Studies and Social Change, a graduate seminar organized and facilitated by Richa Nagar through the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at the University of Minnesota. The participants—Lindsey Willow Smith, Kaeda Sabrewing, Somayeh Nikoonazari,…
غزه ی جدید
Marwan Makhou شاعر: مترجم: کیانا کاظمی مجالی نیست در رحم مادرت تعلل مکن پسرکم بشتاب نه چون بی تاب توام که جنگ شعله ورست می هراسم که مبادا نبینی سرزمینت را چونان که من برایت آرزو داشته ام. … سرزمین تو نه خاکی است و نه دریاییست که سرنوشت تو را دیده و مرده باشد…
Brownness and Being in the Twenty-First Century
By Joy Mazahreh Brown.ness (n.)Being Brown;The state of being reduced to storing corpses in ice cream trucks;Or pleading for help in English at a “press conference” in front of Al-Shifa Hospital (held by children);Or trying to convince the world that you are dying by showing the corpses of loved ones on camera Teta…
Gaza Monologues in the Balkans
People and collectives across geographies, including many that are part of the AGITATE! Community took up ASHTAR Theatre’s call for solidarity with Gaza. Our comrades from the Balkans organized the translation, reading, performance and extensive sharing of Gaza Monologues on the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine, observed on Wednesday, Nov 29th. The Free Palestine…
‘If I Must Die’ by Refaat Alareer, with Translations
I woke up to the Telugu translation of Refaat Alareer’s poem ‘If I must die’ before I even saw the news of his assassination. It was yet another heartbreaking morning of waking up to the massacre in Gaza that has become the ‘everyday’ for many of us. Barely awake and in deep anguish, I translated…
Gaza Monologues Performed by Ellipses
Ellipses is a member of the Marappachi Collective in Chennai, India, and Batticaloa Justice Walk in Sri Lanka. This performance of Gaza Mono-Logues was undertaken in response to the ASHTAR Theatre’s most recent Global Call for solidarity with Palestine. Ellipses speaks in Tamil with a Sri Lankan dialect, the language of a people who lived…