Category: 2021 Spring

Image by Akana Jayewardene Our Sick Homes BY RU'A AL-ABWEH, CASSIE HOEPRICH, AND AKANA JAYEWARDENE June 15, 2021 In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic imposed a new reality upon us. For several months, we were in lockdown. We were forced to become intimate in whatever setting we found ourselves, and across the globe, millions became [...]

New Garki 'Ultramodern' Market, Abuja, Nigeria, taken in June 2020. Image by Stephen Ajadi & Seun Taiwo. “You Are Sick”, “No, We Are Not”: Africa, the Pandemic, and the Convolution of Denial. BY STEPHEN AJADI June 11, 2020   Invocations: Diagnosia I: 1995 “It is nothing”. The words come out very slowly and disconnected — [...]

Catfish Capital BY SAMUEL MADDOX, WHITNEY JOHNSON, AND ZAC GAUDET June 15, 2021 It doesn’t matter out of which window you look while driving down Route 25 through the heart of Alabama’s Black Belt, a nickname given to the region in the early 19th century due to its rich, dark topsoil. Either way you look, [...]

Ecology of Uncertainty: A Spatial Meditation on Emptiness BY YESENIA PEREZ & YENI YI June 28, 2021    1 What grows beneath a freeway? Mildew, moss, mold, lichen and fungi. Creeping vines and invasive species. Spontaneous subterranean vegetal life emerges from total communion with an environment marked by highway traffic induced vibrations, pollution, and relative [...]