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In the Absence of a Corpse

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Soibam Haripriya So, what should we do in the absence of a corpse? I heard he died in trainingIn Bangladesh or BurmaWhat day do we choose for the Shraddh?Is this better than the stench ridden corpse?The son of the neighbour next doorReclaimed three days lateDeath degrading itself into stench The mother says “He isn’t deadI…

Act One: The Multan Railway Station

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Abdul Aijaz Stories tend to have fascinating ways of traveling and intersecting with each other. They spill over, merge, or flow side by side on their subterranean paths, or jostle as torrents to be entangled in each other’s flows. Like travelers at a railway station, they squeeze past each other to continue on to their…

Poetics is Political: Politics and Poetics of Difference Across the Borders of the Nation-States

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Papori Bora For Palestine,[1]Dedicated to friends in Birzeit University, in Ramallah, who hosted me with amazing hospitality in the midst of occupation a few years ago.in solidarity,from the Northeast. Northeast,[2]Baruah, Sanjib. In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast. Stanford University Press, 2020. but Northeast of what? Is it the name of a…

Teleportation | عَبْرَة

Ola Saad Znad

“Yes, Baghdad and I haven’t seen each other since the war, but am I brave enough to change its perfect image in my memory? The walls of Baghdad extend their reach to me, protecting the only solid memory I have of the place I love, where my roots run deep. These walls keep me wondering: what would my life be if I had never left my home?”

इंसानियत का लॉकडाउन

Richa Nagar and Richa Singh

The title of this piece translates to—Humanity in Lockdown. It documents the plight of migrant workers who fled Indian cities en masse, the deepening religious divide, and intensifying poverty in the context of COVID-19 pandemic and the nation-wide lockdown that was instituted in April 2020.

Step, step, breathe

Sophie Oldfield

I started running eight years ago as a way to be in my city, in Cape Town. Step, step, breathe (video above) shares how running gave me a way to move through Cape Town, to see it anew, and to participate in it.

SKMS Code of Conduct

Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan (SKMS)

A code of conduct for Code of Conduct for Researchers, Writers, Filmmakers and Others Interested in Working with the Sangathan. By the Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan (SKMS)

जसिन्ता को पढ़ने पर …

Vishal Jamkar and Richa Nagar

The essay in Hindi emerged organically over the course of several months as we jointly engaged with Jacinta Kerketta’s submission to AGITATE!. It continued to find inspiration from her ideas and poetry as it grew from our verbal discussions into Vishal’s diary, and then into a co-authored reflection and essay. To try to convey in English all of the contents of what has evolved in the preceding pages seems far too mechanical to us. Therefore, we offer here a summary of our engagement with Jacinta, chiefly for those readers who do not read Hindi.

A Letter to the Stories, Bodies, Movements Team

Surafel Wondimu Abebe

To the Stories, Bodies, Movements team,
It was a great pleasure and honor to watch Fractured Threads tonight.

Fracturing Threads, Again

Keavy McFadden

Over two years after the formal close of my own participation in the course, I sit at my desk pouring over the material documents produced by the multiple iterations of Stories, Bodies, Movements, attempting to think about what my own contribution to this volume might look like. In returning to the course in the context of AGITATE!, I seek not to preserve the journey or archive the experience but rather to think about what it means politically, theoretically, conceptually to revisit and extend the work at the heart of Stories, Bodies, Movements. What is the afterlife of the embodied pedagogical commitment of the class?

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