A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Lee Godie: Beauty in My Mind
“I always try to paint beauty, but some people say my paintings aren’t beautiful. Well I have beauty in my mind …”
The Legendary Iranian Poet Who Gives Me Hope
“Read Forugh’s poems and you’ll find the very forces that shape our moment: misogyny, censorship, nativism, consumerism, the annihilating violence of war. Read her poems and you’ll find that they, like all…
Lola Álvarez Bravo: Picturing Mexico
Lola Alvarez Bravo, an oft-overlooked female artist, created profoundly personal works, which combined a radical humanism with experiments with the uncanny.
Esther Oladapo: Art, Fashion, Image-Making and the Language of the Body
“She sees herself as a tool for social activism and what she does with this tool is to shape into images of self-affirmation.”
Fiction: The Valley
“For the most part the armies marched through the valley, so that they might do battle elsewhere, but some, like the soldiers of the crocked cross and the soldiers of the blood…
When the Revolution Comes, Our Songs Will Be Sung
Korean social movements are repurposing the tradition of minjung-gayo (people’s music) by creatively incorporating K-pop and messages about women’s struggles today.
Syria, I Went Back
“And now, one year later, I would walk into an arrivals hall at Damascus airport filled with Syrian families crying and hugging separated sons, now-married daughters, and children that have never seen…
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