Caitlin Cooper
Neighbours filled the holes opened in the ground after years of repeated earthquakes with concrete. The government will not respond to their call for action, so they have organised for change.
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Jonathan Chan
Jonathan Chan writes to reckon with the Tatmadaw's cruelty in Myanmar in the aftermath of its coup, responding to poetry by Burmese poets such as ‘A letter from jail cell’ by K Za Win. The extension of violence to innocent civilians of all backgrounds – children, religious leaders, youths – is and continues to be horrific.
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Nahal Sheikh
Drawing upon archival research and historical sources, Nahal Sheikh re-examines narratives about the ‘glory’ of war surrounding the Indian Partition 1947. She explores the legacies of colonial rule, collective trauma and constructed societal divisions along religious lines which still impact the people and politics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Kashmir to this day.
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Stuart Tibaweswa
Over the last few decades, several events in Uganda have impacted the human rights of individuals who are part of the LGBTQI community. Stuart Tibaweswa spent time with these individuals, documenting their stories within their homes and housing they turned to for safety.
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DeLovie Kwagala
Bernhard ‘Bery’ Glaser, was a German national who illegally operated ‘Bery’s Place’ in Kalangala, on Bugala island in Lake Victoria, Uganda for more than 10 years despite persistent rumours of abuse. DeLovie Kwagala spent time with around fifteen of his victims, documenting the survivors while they pursued legal action against him.
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Tan Jing Min
This poem chronicles the author’s mending of an article of fast fashion - a physical, personal act of resistance against the cogs of global capitalism and the suffering others have to endure for us to continuously consume. This poem, too, seeks to resist.
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Lucy Warm
Lucy Warm presents a challenge to the popular historical memory of America’s Rock vs. Disco ‘war’. Encouraging us to reconceptualise this cultural phenomenon as an anti-disco movement, she explores how Rock n’ rollers committed acts of racially-motivated violence against minority groups sought safety and inclusion within discotheques.
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Elizabeth Ruth Deyro
In an exploration of how Indigenous education is militarised in southern Philippines, Elizabeth Ruth Deyro writes on how independent schools such as the Alternative Learning Center for Agricultural and Livelihood Development (ALCADEV) are impacted by, and responding to, continuous violations of their human rights.
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James Blake and Xiomara Rivas
Guatemala has witnessed increased levels of violence over recent years, particularly against human rights activists defending indigenous communities. In response, local communities are forming their own protection groups and owning up to the cartels and, in some instances, to elected officials.
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Julie Reintjes
“The Syrian nation is not one community anymore… Syrian refugees living in Germany have completely different challenges, lives, and futures from Syrian refugees living in Jordan, or Canada. Through the Syria Cultural Index, we aim to reconnect our cultural fabric, maintain its production, and prevent it from melting into the new countries that Syrians are living in."
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Sohaila Abdulali
Writing from the viewpoint of a survivor, writer, daughter, mother, counsellor and activist, Sohaila Abdulali not only looks at what we – women, men, trans people, politicians, teachers, writers, sex workers, feminists, sages, mansplainers, victims and families – think about rape but also questions common assumptions about victimhood.
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The Nude Abstract
This ideal, set in 1915, of female and femme presenting bodies, to have smooth, alabaster skin, was one of capitalistic opportunism. However, over the years, through perpetuation and amplifying media imagery, it has evolved into a defining characteristic of femininity itself.
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Hayley Headley
Hayley Headley writes on the historical and contemporary consequences of the “angry black woman” stereotype and its role in silencing black women. Now, black women are at the forefront of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, angry for change and social justice, but definitely *not* a stereotype.
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Hayley Headley
This poem unpacks the unique experience of being a black woman in the world today, as racism and gender discrimination are always inseparable issues. It illustrates the accumulated impact of micro and macro-aggressions that eventually lead into an explosion of (warranted) anger, an emotion that dominates the damaging stereotype that has been placed upon us for decades: the angry black woman.
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Nishan Kafle
Women are deemed “impure” during their menstruation, consequentially banished to small huts and barred from participating in daily family activities such as cooking. Chhaupadi permeates nearly every socio-economic group of Nepal, with differences arising only in the extent of the implementation.
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