Everyday Resistance has become a commodity. Especially in the art and cultural world, it is worn like a costume—a look to buy, a set of slogans memorized and dropped into conversations and presentations for credibility.
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We exchange the endless supply of hippo memes with friends. We know, for sure, this is a capital G girl, not because of her biological sex or her social gender, but rather due to her aesthetic function.
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For over a decade, I have been assembling an archive—an attempt to reconstruct and unravel the fragmented traces of my family’s experience of the war in Guatemala. Though personal in its origins, the archive has revealed itself as situated within a wider, entangled topography of collective history.
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The habitational crisis is felt throughout European cities. However, not only are homes at risk, but also places to practice sport. The commodification of exercise or the lack of public infrastructure investment makes it necessary to create places of resistance.
Read MoreI don’t know how many times I have asked this question and every time I enunciate it, a fear sets in the upper side of my stomach, a consciousness of my bad pronunciation, the anxiety for how it will be perceived by the person on the other side of the conversation.
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Being an independent artist and an educator is becoming increasingly difficult in Slovakia. We live in a time when society is closing itself off into ideological frameworks in which otherness, critical thinking, and autonomy are no longer welcome.
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Can women ever allow themselves to be “lazy”? Here’s how a group of young women from Central and Eastern Europe are shedding light on gender stereotypes and challenging productivity culture.
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Due to numerous cancellations and censorship, one becomes an expert on how to archive and tell a story, reclaiming one’s right to speak while protecting oneself from potential legal accusations because of the text itself. It is an art we, the cancelled, are forced to master.
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Around this time last year, Dr. Ayesha Khan published an article about decolonizing hope that had a profound effect on me. In the text entitled “How do we keep hope alive in our movements?”, Khan discusses the contradictions of hope but mainly the difference between the hopefulness of a freedom fighter and the hopelessness caused by individualism and colonial values in the West.
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Since last October, the growing instrumentalization of anti-Semitism by Zionist groups around the world, including those who identify with feminisms and the anti-fascist movement, is notorious.
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Catching up with Anna Menecia Antenete Hambira—Vienna-based freelance fashion designer, artist and creative director and author of the interdisciplinary fashion project amaaena that combines sustainability, contemporary fashion and socio-political responsibility.
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In the West, institutions, especially those relating to arts and culture, have been challenged to end their exclusionary practices and introduce “diversity” to their institutions. Depending on the locality of the institution, differing forms of diversity ranging from gender, race, socio-economic class, migration background, language, age, etc., have been demanded by those who’ve been traditionally excluded, especially from larger institutions.
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Dear Belvedere 21,
Can you please tell us
how you removed the line
“Firas from Palestine and
Ali from Lebanon”?