About
The Polis Project, Inc is a New York-based global magazine of dissent that documents communities in resistance at the intersection of politics, art, and culture. We are a hybrid research and journalism organization. Our work documents the rise of authoritarianism and right-wing movements — from Hindutva nationalism in India to far-right governance in Europe, from settler colonialism in Palestine to the criminalization of dissent across the Global Majority. We report on how majoritarian politics weaponizes race, gender, caste, and religion against communities already at the margins. Our work is explicitly feminist, anti-caste, and anti-imperialist.
We are based in New York, but we were built for the world: a publishing infrastructure deliberately built as a platform in exile, enabling work that is no longer possible — or safe at home. The story is our unit of change. We publish long-form journalism, cultural criticism, interviews, podcasts, and photo essays and commission from within the communities we cover, giving authorship to sex workers, queer and trans writers, labor organizers, informal and migrant workers, communities navigating racial, majoritarian and occupation violence, war and genocide, conflict-affected writers, Dalit and caste-oppressed communities, and Indigenous and land-defending peoples.
Commitments
Diversity: We amplify voices that are unique, critical, remarkable, and underrepresented — writers and communities who rarely control their own narratives in mainstream media.
Form Agnostic: We deliver in the forms and platforms where our audiences live — long-form journalism, cultural criticism, podcasts, photo essays, and video — because the story should never be limited by the container.
Integrity: We maintain the highest standards of honesty and fairness. We speak truth to power and nurture critical voices of dissent. We are not stenographers of the state.
Narrative Change is a Political Practice: We believe dominant narratives about who deserves rights, whose suffering counts, and which communities are threats are not accidents. We know they are built, funded, and maintained by states, corporations, and the media institutions that serve them. We believe that the stories we tell are resistance.
