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Who said we all survived?
Assigning "more digestible" language to those who have experienced gender violence is dehumanizing—not empowering. It ignores the fact that under the existing conditions, harm for Black folks and gender-oppressed people is inescapable and recurrent.
Out Loud on the Gate City Front
Legacy media and tech titans have been instrumental in promoting and protecting Atlanta's Cop City project. Pack City Hall is just one example of the power of alternative media and grassroots organizers mobilizing to challenge the state narrative.
Georgia State students demand the University denounce Cop City, end carceral investments
A letter from GSU students reveals the university's involvement to fund and support Cop City, urging administration to cut ties with the Atlanta Police Foundation and other police foundations and redirect resources to education and social services.
Altars for the alter-life
With Destiny as a guide, we are invited on a walk around the block, into other worlds—the alter-life. More than a collection of poems, 'motherworld' tunes songs of the South, lit up with magnolias, dandelions, rivers, and "testaments/of the cosmic."
'We apologize for the inconvenience': The unsightliness of labor at the Blanton's 'Day Jobs'
The pieces on display at the Blanton unveil the invisible, everyday work of emerging and established artists, from dishwashers to gallery assistants. But does the exhibit challenge or reinforce the myth of the starving artist?
How to Build the End of the World
In the Black Radical Tradition, chaos and experimentation are required to challenge the state and build a reality worth defending. In the Cop City movement and beyond, Chaotic Protesters create meaningful resistance by disrupting the state's order.