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Confronting the Abject: What Gaza Can Teach Us About the Struggles That Shape Our World

Confronting the Abject: What Gaza Can Teach Us About the Struggles That Shape Our World

Tareq Baconi on Overcoming Shared Helplessness and Working Towards Liberation in Palestine and Beyond

By Tareq Baconi | June 5, 2024

On Channeling the Rage of Audre Lorde to Combat Racial Injustice

On Channeling the Rage of Audre Lorde to Combat Racial Injustice

Myisha Cherry Balances Anger and Optimism in Navigating Systemic Oppression

By Myisha Cherry | October 28, 2021

Why America Needs a New Vocabulary to Describe Its Shortcomings

Why America Needs a New Vocabulary to Describe Its Shortcomings

Barrett Holmes Pitner on the Insufficiencies of Language

By Barrett Holmes Pitner | October 15, 2021

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

Against the Literature of Silence: Richard Flanagan on the Writer’s Freedom to Embrace Heresy

From the 2021 PEN Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture

By Richard Flanagan | July 12, 2021

On the Contradictions of Whiteness, Revolution, and Freedom

On the Contradictions of Whiteness, Revolution, and Freedom

Tyler Stovall Looks at the "Red Years" After WWI

By Tyler Stovall | January 19, 2021

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

A Day in the Life of a Jailed Writer and Human Rights Advocate

By Kaya Genç | January 31, 2020

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By Literary Hub | January 6, 2017