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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Dispatches from Lahore: The Importance of Politicized Ancestral Narratives

    Author: Sania N. Sufi

    Che Guevara once said that revolutions are driven by a deep sense of love.[1] I smile at these words, for I have witnessed such love of humanity in the pedagogical[...]

    On Umbrellas… -- Lumley Market, Freetown Sierra Leone, July 2015

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    (Alter)Native Lens: Seeing my Sierra Leone like a Postcolony

    Author: Fodei Batty

    “…the upshot is that while we now feel we know nearly everything that African states societies, economies, are not, we still know absolutely nothing about what they actually are…” (Mbembe[...]

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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Represión, persecución y estrategia de lucha del independentismo puertorriqueño

    Author: Cruzhilda López

    En octubre del 2001, publicamos un estudio lexicográfico sobre la penetración del español americano en la lengua italiana contemporánea. En el léxico estudiado, se documenta la “crónica” de los últimos[...]

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Featured

    À la naissance du sens (Poetry)

    Author: Trihn Lo

    Si l’on s’en tient à l’étymologie, le mot expression – dérivé du latin tardif expressio « action de faire sortir en pressant », du verbe exprimere (de ex et premere)[...]

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    No is Yes (poetry)

    Author: Manash Bhattacharjee

    Let us treat Yes as a No…and No as a Yes ~ Nikos Karouzos, ‘Texts/Non-fiction/Prose’ Greece, Your no is also a yes To other things, You spurned usurers For Athens’[...]

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    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Creative · Featured

    “Vignettes” – Havana, Cuba, 2014 (by Annie McNeill Gibson)

    Author: Annie McNeill Gibson

    Introducción I walk over the broken eggshells on the corner of E and 13 and wonder what paths Eleguá opened today? Cuba is the daughter of Ochún. Be careful because[...]

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Creative · Featured

    Homes of Loss (spoken-word poetry by Maheen Hyder)

    Author: Maheen Hyder

      You are a body that needed a home / now you are ruins and home is wound Why I left when I did and could not say goodbye: The[...]

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    Photo Series: “Vignettes” – Havana, Cuba, 2014 (by Annie McNeill Gibson)

    Author: Annie Gibson

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    Civil Discourse · Creative · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Refugees, Language, Family, and Cooking: Sermon Excerpt by Ashley Makar

    Author: Ashley Makar

    Everyday at IRIS, the refugee resettlement agency where I work, I can see the shape of justice in a photo that was taken by a volunteer who chartered a bus[...]

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    Accidents Waiting to Happen (fiction)

    Author: Lina Sergie Attar

    I want to I want to be someone else or I’ll explode floating upon the surface for the birds                      [...]

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    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Creative · Featured · Magazine

    Vistas: A Visual Project by Raél Jero Salley & Photographs by Jared Thorne

    Note: This creative submission is a sister piece to the critical article, Antinomies of Neighborliness. The two submissions are meant to be viewed in concert. ***** “To my compatriots, I have[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Creative · Magazine

    Antinomies of neighborliness, or anti-blackness as a reactionary persistence

    Author: Athi Joja

    Note: This article is a sister piece to the creative submission, Vistas. The two submissions are meant to be viewed in concert. Writing in 1961, on the eve of both[...]

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    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Creative · Global Perspectives

    The Centipedes: Liminal Narratives Traveling through Others’ Bodies

    Author: Woo Yun Jin & Mathew Bumbalough

    The ‘reflexive turn’ in anthropology, marked by the publication of Writing Culture (Clifford and Marcus) in 1986, raised fundamental issues of representation, epistemological authority, and Eurocentric colonialism in anthropological texts.[...]

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    El arte urbano y su poder revitalizador: el caso de Santurce, Puerto Rico

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    Santurce es un área que cuenta con una escena artística y cultural variada. Antiguamente un municipio por derecho propio conocido como San Mateo de Cangrejos, hoy día es un barrio[...]

    Neighbours

    Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Vecinos. Neighbours. Film Review: “Home is the planet, don’t accept anything else”

    Author: Raél Jero Salley

    The short film titled Vecinos, translated as Neighbours (9”45) opens with a montage sequence—views of a busy underground metro; graffiti etched and painted onto walls; a sleeping man in a[...]

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    Seeing Syria: Kinda Hibrawi’s Twitter Portraits

    Author: The Editors

    Photos Copyright: Kinda Hibrawi This piece is part of a continuing series in which The Postcolonialist seeks to highlight and engage issues of refugee status, conflict, and asylum. As the[...]

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    The Little Book of Kabul: a project by Francesca Recchia and Lorenzo Tugnoli

    Author: Francesca Recchia and Lorenzo Tugnoli

    With the impending presidential elections and the withdrawal of international forces, 2014 is a foreboding year for Afghanistan. However, there is more to the country than war and violence. There[...]

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    Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives

    A Day in Atmeh: Reflections and Images from Syria

    Author: Maysaloon and Mohamad Ojjeh

    Photo Credit:  © Mohamad Ojjeh, 2013 (Syria) Last December, we visited the Turkish town of Reyhanli, close to the Syrian border, to volunteer at a local Syrian school for refugee[...]

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    Superstiti e bare: Il Tradimento dell’Europa (Survivors and Caskets: The Betrayal of Europe)

    Author: Enrico Montalbano

    Cronaca di una giornata di sbarchi a Porto Empedocle: il 13 di ottobre 2013. Video da Enrico Montalbano. English translation L’arrivo di due navi militari, durante l’arco di tutta la giornata,[...]

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    Picturing Legitimacy: Snapshots from the Arab World (Photo Series by Amanda Rogers)

    Author: Amanda Rogers

    These photographs arose out of a long-standing interest in the modes of authority—religious, economic, political and cultural—in visual culture across the world. This set of images, dated between 2010 and[...]

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    Lettre d’un Citoyen Engagé à L’Empereur du Grand Empire (année 2560 après Jésus-Christ)

    Author: Umar Timol

    Maître, J’ai longuement réfléchi avant de vous écrire. Je sais que vous avez de nombreuses préoccupations et non des moindres. Vous êtes à la tête du plus vaste Empire de[...]

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    Poetry, by Matt Reeck

    Author: Matt Reeck

    Double Analogy 1 Initial Disquietude. How easily people claim their actions are directed by the will of God. Initial Question. Why do people so abuse this phrase? Second Question. What[...]

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    Poetry, by V. Shayne Frederick

    Author: V. Shayne Frederick

    When Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker kissed When Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker kissed, was it a red line or an amorphous shadow obscured by distance? Tea with strawberry creme[...]

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    Egypt in Revolution: Painting Series by May Kaddah

    It has been a tumultuous and transformative two years for Egypt.  Since the revolution began in January 2011, the country has witnessed many political events and social upheavals. Facing a[...]

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    Poetry, by Pradine Saint-Fort

    Author: Pradine Saint-Fort

    Untitled Dawn, the sooty film on that cherub’s face Two years, some months, a quantum of days – I guessed—engrossed in his joyful waddle Through the gutter, I follow this[...]

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