Essay Article
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
Step, step, breathe
Sophie Oldfield
SKMS Code of Conduct
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 AbebeFracturing 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?