Essays

Introduction In 2014, the Supreme Court of India ruled that no gender-related cases can be arbitrated at the village level; any assembly of this nature remains unconstitutional. 1 This judgement [...]

  “Excuse me, miss. Do I understand you were looking for a particular AF [Artificial Friend]? One you’d seen here before?” “Yes, ma’am. You had her in your window a [...]

  The cracked floors and peeled walls of a resident’s room. Dilapidated furniture, peeled walls, cracked floors, cluttered up spaces. These are deteriorated landscapes, precarious topographies. How does [...]

Monarch resting in oyamel tree in Mexico. Photo by author. The migratory monarch butterfly, sometimes also called the “super butterfly” and the “Bambi of the insect world,” performs a [...]

Content warning: This article discusses suicide, genocide, eugenics, and other forms of violence.In Canada, it is easier to access physician-assisted suicide than it is to secure accessible housing. What sense [...]

“Cities are about life, not just about walls. The objects that we hold sacred cannot be destroyed in principle because walls and roofs constitute only one percent of their essence, [...]

When the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, along with his administration and more than 80,000 Tibetans, fled to Nepal and India following China’s military retaliations against the Tibetan uprisings of 1959, they [...]

I said to her, “I’m grateful to be here, but my life here is not like my life at home. I spent my time there working the nightshift with my [...]

“If people say we are lagging behind, then we are only lagging behind in destroying the earth.” — Akhu Sonam Tashi Our Golden Fatherland, Your Fragile Wasteland Read the opening [...]

Para Alicia I live in a little hell. What is left for me? Tell me, what can be left for me in hell? Margarita, Field notes, May 2018 “There is [...]