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Folklore is Resistance
“De-Flock America” ties back to Halloween’s folk origins

The Politics of Patterns
The Standardization of Clothing and Bodies

Cornell 7: When “Protecting” Women is About Controlling Women

The Architecture of Peace in Kurdistan
Acronyms Dissolve While Promises Survive
A Genocidal Shade of Grey
The Visual Language of Colonial Violence

Reclamation of Land and Body
Agricultural Resistance in Lebanon

The Camel in the Age of Climate Change
Rethinking resilience through a desert animal

What Water Carries Beyond the Nakba
On Fugitive Knowledge and Palestine

The Aesthetics of Sovereignty
On Flags and the Political Imagination
Understanding Fast Fashion
The true cost of cheap clothing
Welcome to Slow Factory
An introduction to our mission

5 Climate Actions You Can Take This Week
Small steps, big impact

Building a Sustainable Capsule Wardrobe
Less is more: quality over quantity

The Fight After the Fight
How a Kyiv jiu-jitsu club helps veterans heal

Let not our sorrow be weaponized
On queer solidarity and resisting scapegoating

As Goes Nepal, So Will The World

Rice: A Tessera to Defeat Empire
How one seed bank is protecting India’s rice biodiversity

The Billionaire Problem
The ownership crisis reshaping journalism

Why Fashion Is Embracing Surveillance
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s victory proves that people are not buying Israel’s war crimes

Across Borders, We Choose Each Other
Refuge, relationality, and Indigenous feminist solidarity across Abya Yala and Turtle Island

Lessons on Traceability
Fashion supply-chain transparency starts with people, not tech

Why Everything Is Political
Understanding the politics of everyday choices

Climate Justice 101
A beginner's guide to understanding climate justice

The War on Terror Is a War on Climate
The Environmental Legacy of Military Violence
Menstruation Under Fire
Grassroots feminists in Lebanon are refusing to let menstrual health become another casualty of war

It has always been us
How East African Communities Are Building Power Beyond the Ballot

Beyond Sect
Reimagining Lebanon Through the Land

The Ones Who Stay
The Invisible Architecture of Migration

The Balloons Were Not Balloons
On Chemical Weapons, Contaminated Lands, and Bodies That Remember War

Movement Monarchy
When Bad Faith Movement Leaders Declare War on the Working Class

Eco-Anxiety in Mauritania

Rooms that Grew Together
On Sindhi Refugees Making Home in Jalgaon

Indigenous Art and Life on the Eastern Edge of Long Island

The Chronology of Exhaustion
How Venezuelan Women Refuse Erasure Through Collective Resistance
Sold Out
How High Fashion Opened Its Doors to Fast Fashion

How Cyprus is Supporting Israel’s Expansionist Policies

Louisiana Deserves Better than Mass Forced Displacement

ICE is Waging Trump’s War on Disabled Communities
And this is how you can fight back.

What Goes Unseen In Gaza's Camps
