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Our series centering the themes and the contributors of Warscapes anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (Daraja Press) co-edited by Bhakti Shringarpure and Veruska Cantelli. Buy the book here.  1. Unlearning War in the Classroom  2. Gaslighting as Method and Ways to Resist it  3. Wounds of War: On Health and Healing 4. Poetry of Witness  5. In Love and War: Collective Memory and the Self

As killing season continues in Palestine and Sudan, ethnic cleansing, torture camps, death marches, shredded babies and enforced starvation have become part of daily newsfeed. Shockingly, the past year has shown us that mainstream liberal media is complicit in biased and unethical news coverage. In fact, media gaslighting has become so extraordinary that some days we have no way of knowing what is the truth, what is the spin and what is just lies. We are collaborating with The Polis Project to produce a podcast that expose these extreme levels of gaslighting. It's Not You, It's the Media unpacks the ways that the...

We gathered on May 15th at The People’s Forum, New York for a night of readings to commemorate 76 years of the Nakba, amplify the Palestinian liberation struggle, and demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. WATCH here:   Participants included Ibtisam Azem, Najla Said, Huda Fakhredinne, Maaza Mengiste, Ahmad Almallah, Mona Eltahawy, Emna Zghal, Nadia Saah, Suha Araj, Christopher Stone, Hafsa Kanjwal, Siddhartha Deb, Anna Arabindan Kesson, Mukoma wa Ngugi, Zohra Saed, Sean Jacobs, Christina Dhanuja, Anthony Alessandrini, Jee Leong Koh, Suneela Mubayi, Valérie Gruhn, Manan Ahmed and Omar Berrada. Nakba Day marks the devastation of the Palestinian homeland in 1948 through ethnic...

On December 2nd, participants in our “Reading Palestine” session shared and read out these powerful poems. We have assembled them all here... Traveling Tickets I Grant You Refuge