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Thinking From Black: A Lexicon by the Practicing Refusal Collective

September 13, 2026 by Treena Orchard

Thinking From Black is an animated collection that illuminates, interrogates, and grabs hold of what Blackness means from as many angles as humanity, history, and artistry allow. Initiated by the Practicing Refusal Collective, whose members span the US, Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, and Africa, this fierce book is as much about creativity as it is about the political realities and ethical practices of being Black at a time when anti-Black violence is resurging in terrifying ways. A reference book, a glossary, and an inventive vocabulary that …

Interposition by Kaie Kellough

August 27, 2026August 26, 2026 by Peter Midgley

From the very first lines of “to be,” the opening section Kaie Kellough’s Interposition, we find ourselves descending into a nightmare, moving steadily towards a stultifying existence characterized not by connection but by the spaces between us. That sense of being caught between worlds (that word “between” again) allows an overwhelming feeling of bifurcation to …

G by Klara du Plessis and Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi

February 10, 2025 by Peter Midgley

In G, Klara du Plessis and Khashayar “Kes” Mohammadi look at a single sound that connects two parts of the world that we rarely imagine in proximity, Iran and South Africa. They do so by exploring the voiceless uvular fricative and its close cousin, the voiced velar fricative, which are presented phonetically by the Greek letters chi (x) and gamma (ɣ) and are generally transposed into a roman alphabet as ch (e.g., loch) or kh (e.g., Khalil).