Oaxacan hip hop crew Juchirap has gained acclaim as one of Mexico’s up and coming acts, earning praise for their old-school rhythms and performances in their native Diidxazá (Zapotec) language.
The grisly murders of 15 Iko’ots activists in July 2020 created a wave of backlash that pitted community leaders against one another and threatens to undermine communal governance structures among one of Mexico’s most unintegrated Indigenous groups.
A personal letter to an mentor passed, commemorating her life and the influence she had on generations of artists in New York City.
A Zapotec activist from Juchitán, Oaxaca is organizing an indigenous resistance movement to combat violent land appropriation for wind farms and extractive development projects while facing threats to his life.
Oaxaca’s renowned street art is rooted in the political upheaval and months-long protests that enveloped the city in the summer 2006 and cemented a legacy of subversive, underground public art that continues to thrive today.
In a time of unmediated isolation, loss and heartbreak, perhaps rediscovering our artistic passions and tapping our creative impulses can offer some respite.
In a small, nondescript building on the outskirts of Oaxaca, conceptual artist and accountant Edith Morales has created an experimental urban “milpa” garden to study the ancient system of Mixe agriculture and document Oaxaca’s endemic species of maize for future generations.
A longitudinal reflection on politics and creativity, from the author’s birth to the controversial 2020 U.S. election.
The 14th piece in the Polity of Literature series shares examples of zine-making in refugee camps in Uganda and Greece, and by exiled Bangladeshi and Iranian writers in Scandinavia.
Anticipating the chaos and depravity of the 2020 U.S. election, Francisco Goya’s paintings offer a portal to a comparable nightmarish period of human history.
The murder of George Floyd and the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement sparks memories of police brutality.
Optimistic reflections on the potential of creative practice in counteracting cultural malaise at the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic.