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Azzah Sultan, “Don’t forget what I’ve told you.” (2021-22), oil and hand-stitched fabric with found pearl beads on canvas, 48 x 48 inches. READING IN MY TABS...

Anger as compost for your garden

February 21, 2022

Cambodian artist Sreymao Sao explores the lived experiences of communities displaced by the Lower Sesan 2 Dam project —some 5,000 indigenous and ethnic-...

Only this — that the tool never possess the human

January 25, 2022

(Image description: This is a picture of me on my birthday yesterday. I am wearing a black jumpsuit with a striped blue shirt and a wine coloured hijab. I am...

Don't let defeat defeat you

January 2, 2022

Illustration by anarchist artist N.O. Bonzo. Image description: the all-black line illustration is against a baby blue backdrop. The illustration shows a...

Mind the tragic gap

November 22, 2021

Lenna Forsen, the real human behind the Lenna image that had been widely disseminated and used in the male dominated engineering and computer science field,...

Less heroes, more movements

October 28, 2021

These fascinating images of the vast archives of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History were taken over a period of twenty years. “The Natural...

Lying flat is justice

October 4, 2021

"Last year, in a café near where I live in Istanbul, I noticed an old book on a shelf. It was the kind of place that seemed to have bought its books by the...

A gathering of flowers

September 12, 2021

Interior view of the Central Social Insurance Institution showing men working in mobile work stations used to access the card catalog drawers, Prague,...

Three galaxies having a fight

August 31, 2021

(Artwork by Ashley Gan on MulaZine. Image accessibility description: A piece of Scantron exam form, representing the day today (31 August 2021 — the day the...

Abolish the cop inside your head

August 14, 2021

In the installation In Event of Moon Disaster (2019), Francesca Panetta, creative director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Virtuality, in partnership with...

My best friend is gone and the first thing I thought about was this stupid newsletter

(Photo by Abdul Haq Musa. Image ID: A photo of Zam, wearing a black shirt, looking sideways to his right, hands over his head. Zam's last tweet was 'count...

The quest for attention is the invitation to care

Image 1: The Gulf of Mexico — a body of water, a freaking ocean — on fire after a pipeline rupture. Image 2: a scene from the recent catastrophic flood in...

Hum if you agree

Illustration by Shing Ying Khor, I Do Not Want to Write Today: A Comic. Image ID: A girl is putting an elaborate crown on her head. Captions swirling around...

Prolix and incomplete

Art by London based artist Mark Powell. A portrait of James Baldwin drawn using a bic ballpoint pen on antique ephemera, in this case, a New York City map....

Algorithms are without imagination

“This photo essay was conceived as a meditation on our profound distancing from the natural world — of which we are all just one small part. What we are...

Maybe dormant, not languishing

A Palestinian boy recalling a story about the death of his cousins by the sea, murdered by the Israeli missile attack. The physical wounds of these children...

Photography by Turkish photographer Uğur Gallenkuş, depicting a Syrian child running with balloons past heavily damaged buildings in the neighbourhood of...

No more whoopsie!

Typing station designed by Luigi Colani (1928-2019), combining a typewriter, a chair, and headphones. Hi, selamat berjumpa kembali (we meet again) in a new...