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Hyperimperialism and Technology, Essay

Algorithmic Politics: How Meta Silenced Palestinian Voices Amid Genocide

Jalal Abukhater, Eric Sype
Dissent, Reviews

Woman! Life! Freedom!: A Counter-Archive of Defiance and Survival in Iran

Anjali Chauhan
  • Letters from Palestine
  • The Demolitions Project
  • BK-16 Prison Diaries
Israel releases Palestinian hostages
State Violence and Carcerality, Letters from Palestine
‘I’ve Returned from Hell’: Arrested Without Charge, Palestinian Journalists, Doctor Detail Torture in Israeli Prisons
Doaa Shaheen
Mind – Memory & Trauma, Letters from Palestine
Letters from Palestine: One by one, we may all fade away, but the martyrs will remain—still, silent, beloved of God
Sawsan Al-Ajjouri

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Hyperimperialism and Technology, Reportage

How AI Like Grok and Social Media Platforms Silence Queer Nigerian Voices

Obinna Tony-Francis Ochem

NARRATIVE CONTROL

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Meta censors and suppresses Palestinian and pro-Palestine voices on its platform.

Algorithmic Politics: How Meta Silenced Palestinian Voices Amid Genocide

Jalal Abukhater

Meta censors and suppresses Palestinian and pro-Palestine voices on its platform.

Algorithmic Politics: How Meta Silenced Palestinian Voices Amid Genocide

Jalal Abukhater
Malayalam police dramas

Grief, Guilt, and Vigilante Heroism: How Malayalam Police Procedurals Transform State Failure into Personal Burden

Aabha Muralidharan

Kashmircore: India’s Tool to Erase Kashmiri Counter-Memory

Ather Zia
Randa Jarrar Palestine

“Cultural Institutions Have the Power To Co-Sign or Reject Genocide”: Randa Jarrar on Refusal, Resistance, and ‘The Last Palestinian’

Kaashif Hajee
Uttarakhand Migration

What’s Lost and What’s Left Behind Amidst the Migration Woes of Uttarakhand: Preserving the Heritage

Disha Kapkoti
Jelani Cobb

Everyone’s Looking at Jelani Cobb

Sara Selva Ortiz

5 Object Podcast | Conversation with Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Patterns of violence, impunity and silence, conversation with Bharti Ali and Nidhi Suresh

India’s breaking point, a talk by Prof Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Hindutva and the falsifications of Indian history, a talk by Prof. Irfan Habib

Don’t resist, we can kill you — A Massacre in Thoothukudi

State violence & carcerality

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She Came to the US Fleeing Violence in Venezuela. Now She Faces Deportation.

Sam Judy
Zoe Alexandra on the Abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and America’s Long Imperial War on Venezuela

Zoe Alexandra on the Abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and America’s Long Imperial War on Venezuela

Suchitra Vijayan
Israel releases Palestinian hostages

‘I’ve Returned from Hell’: Arrested Without Charge, Palestinian Journalists, Doctor Detail Torture in Israeli Prisons

Doaa Shaheen
Freedom of expression in Nigeria

Policing Speech: As Elections Inch Closer in Tinubu’s Nigeria, Digital Crackdown on the Rise

Adetokunbo Abiola 
Ish Imran Perretta

Imran Perretta on His Debut Film, ‘Ish,’ Immigration, and the Psychological Impact of Routine State Violence

Kaashif Hajee
India's new deportation regime

Marked, Detained, Pushed Back: Inside India’s New Deportation Regime

Srinath Rao

DISSENT

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Woman Life Freedom Iran Protest Feminist

Woman! Life! Freedom!: A Counter-Archive of Defiance and Survival in Iran

Anjali Chauhan
Gauri Gill Farmer Protests

Photographer Gauri Gill Reimagines India’s Farmer Protests as ‘The Village on the Highway’

Jaishree Kumar
Jamia student protest

The Systematic Witch-Hunt of Jamia Students: How Authorities Are Crushing Dissent

Aatif Ammad
Vinod Kumar Shukla

Language as a Home, Not a Ladder: Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Resistance in Remaining Where He Belongs

Poulomi Das
Millions of Italian workers held a massive strike against their government's support for Israel

The Italian Model: How Workers Shut Down Italy for Palestine

Sara Tanveer
Nandhan and Blue Star

Food, Caste, and Popular Cinema: How Blue Star and Nandhan Subvert Brahminical Codes of Commensality

Sumaiya Mustafa

MAJORITARIANISM & MASS VIOLENCE

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Jama Masjid, mosque situated in Upperkot, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.

Patterns of Erasure: How India’s Mosques and Islamic Shrines are Systematically Targeted

Nikita Jain
The Pathan Sisters

The Pathan Sisters: Resistance and Sisterhood in the Face of Hindutva Violence

Sanhati Banerjee
Zara Chowdhary on The Lucky Ones

Zara Chowdhary on Memory, Muslim Girlhood, and the Violence of Forgetting

Kaashif Hajee
Follower

The Anatomy of a Troll: “Follower” Expertly Exposes The Geopolitical Fault Lines of a Fractured India

Rahul Desai
Shooting the Sun review Manipur violence

Shooting The Sun Explores Violence and Death in Manipur—And The Indian State’s Complicity

Mishika Chauhan
Ajay Devgan as Bajirao Singham in Singham Again.

Hindu Heroes and Muslim Demons: How Singham Again Retells the Ramayana in Troubling Ways

Sohini Sarah Pillai

LAWFARE

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She Came to the US Fleeing Violence in Venezuela. Now She Faces Deportation.

Sam Judy
Freedom of expression in Nigeria

Policing Speech: As Elections Inch Closer in Tinubu’s Nigeria, Digital Crackdown on the Rise

Adetokunbo Abiola 
Ministry of Comedic Affairs

Indian Govt Launches Ministry of Comedic Affairs

The Savala Vada
The Oyerepa Afutu show hosted by Auntie Naa in Ghana

Sensationalism, Insensitivity, and Shock Value: Why Ghana’s Media Courts Cannot Replace Its Failing Justice System 

Menenaba

Silencing Solidarity: Europe’s lawfare against pro-Palestine activism

Sara Tanveer
Pakistan's blasphemy laws

A Holy Terror: The fear and control of blasphemy in Pakistan

Ana

HYPERIMPERIALISM & TECHNOLOGY

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Meta censors and suppresses Palestinian and pro-Palestine voices on its platform.

Algorithmic Politics: How Meta Silenced Palestinian Voices Amid Genocide

Jalal Abukhater

How AI Like Grok and Social Media Platforms Silence Queer Nigerian Voices

Obinna Tony-Francis Ochem
Kathputli puppet

Kathputli’s Lost Artisans: Displacement and the Making of a Digital Music Scene

Anuj Behal
Sunny Singh Empire

Undoing Empire One Story at a Time: Featuring Sunny Singh

Bhakti Shringarpure
Delhi Metro

Who Can Afford Delhi’s Metro? How a Dream Project Became a Commuter’s Nightmare

Ankush Pal
Dystopia

From Severance to Squid Game: How Your Favorite TV Dramas Gamify Oppression

Debiparna Chakraborty

CLIMATE & ECOCIDE

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Debris from Dharali flood.

Disaster as Policy: Dharali Flash Floods Reveal the Making of a Himalayan Catastrophe

Prashant Rahi

एक नई अर्थव्यवस्था: कर्ज और निर्भरता के दुश्चक्र में फंसे हुए उत्तराखंड के वन गुज्जर

Sharjeel Usmani
Forest fire in Uttarakhand, India

परस्पर नुकसान: उत्तराखंड में वन गुज्जरों के बिना वनों पर और वनों के बिना वन गुज्जरों पर होने वाले गंभीर परिणाम

Sharjeel Usmani

जंगल राज: भारतीय सेना पर, शिवालिक जंगलों में फ़ायरिंग रेंज के गैर कानूनी इस्तेमाल के दौरान वन गुज्जरों की हत्या का आरोप

Sharjeel Usmani

A New Economy: How Van Gujjars in Uttarakhand are trapped in a cycle of debt and dependence

Sharjeel Usmani
Olive trees in Palestine

The Enduring Significance Of Olive Trees In Israel’s Colonization of Palestine

Aysha Sana

Mind – Memory & Trauma

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Psychic Anesthesia

Psychic Anesthesia: How the State’s Scapegoating of Muslims Makes Hatred Feel Inevitable, Numbing National Grief 

Shaifila Ladhani
Wajid Yaseen's Tape Letters Project

Tape Letters: Wajid Yaseen’s “Sound Archaeology” Project Captures Pakistani Diasporic Memory

Priyanka Sacheti
Anuparna Roy Songs of Forgotten Trees

Anuparna Roy on Love, Labor, and Resistance in ‘Songs of Forgotten Trees’

Kaashif Hajee
Gaza women children

Displaced Women in Gaza: A Life Without Safety, Healthcare, Dignity

Doaa Shaheen
Gaza Disavowal

Why Does Knowledge Not Galvanize Action Anymore? On Gaza, Disavowal, and the Myth of ‘Ethical Consumerism’

Narayanan Gopalakrishnan
Kashmiri ponywallah Adil's death devastates his mother.

Photo Essay: In Kashmir, after deadly military conflict, a village hero who will never return home 

Zainab

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