Pandemic Diaries: Post-Covid Fantasies

How does the sky bleed? Slowly. She bleeds slowly, until she doesn’t. She is whole again. All this foolishness about skies is done. Her people and some persons have taken [...]

In 2029, on the 10th anniversary of the first Covid pandemic, former medical anthropologists Joe Dumit and Emilia Sanabria gather a range of primary sources to explore the undoing of [...]

  Mask worn by the evil Virus character. Source: https://www.pexels.com/photo/green-and-black-dragon-figurine-4718639/ Zina sat on the edge of her bed, looking down at her knobby rope-veined hands, curled together her [...]

Since the outbreak of Covid-19, reports on wildlife reclaiming locked-down cities have flourished in all corners of the globe. You might have noticed that, albeit to a lesser extent, news [...]

“Let’s cultivate the movement we want, and leave space for others to do the same. There’s room. Let it breathe” (Adrienne Maree Brown 2017: 116). An American Suburb Near You Ordinary [...]

The communal house that local residents had built, on a barren plot once designated for Jakarta’s latest megamall construction, has a freshly planted fruit orchard that offers fine scenery for [...]

It begins, as it always does, with a lie. By tracking the virus that caused global havoc at the time, its spread could maybe be slowed down. The Tracing App [...]

Abolition is both a world without, and a world with. In Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s words, abolition is “a strategy and a vision for a world without police, prisons, border control and [...]

Queen Miriam sits with a black axe on either side in an ornate red velvet chair gilded with gold leaf in the fading afternoon sun in the antechamber made in [...]

I. Overheard on Campus History? That lecture verged on science fiction. Man, it’s just bananas how much power corporations used to have over public education. Talk about the free pursuit [...]