Translating Manus and Nauru: Refugee Writing
The ninth piece in our Polity of Literature series: From 2014 until 2018, Iranian-Australian translator, Moones Mansoubi, worked with asylum seekers imprisoned in Australia’s “Offshore Processing Centres” on Manus and Nauru...
Performing Ceremony Amidst the “Yellow Peril”
ï»żï»żï»żï»żï»żï»ż In late April the Chinese Cultural Centre in Vancouverâs Chinatownâjust two blocks from where I liveâwas vandalized with anti-Asian racist graffiti, setting off a wave of anxiety and fear...
Prison Books in the Time of Refugees
The eighth piece in our Polity of Literature series: Books cited in this essay: Plato, Crito and Phaedo Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy Ălvar NĂșñez Cabeza de Vaca, The Relation...
Second-Hand Normalities
Second-hand Normalities is an animated short film and podcast that recounts the first days of the coronavirus outbreak in Bilbao, Spain through the eyes of a nurse and doctor working...
If They Come in the Morning â Writing from Prison with Angela Davis
The seventh piece in our Polity of Literature series: In 1970, at the height of violent conflict between the U.S. government and oppressed communities across the countryâmostly poor, mostly people...
Preface to If They Come in the Morning
This is the preface to If They Come In the Morning: Voices of Resistance, a collection of political texts by writers inside and outside of prison, co-edited by Angela Y....
A Template for Change in Guelph, Ontario
Guelph, Ontario is a small university town an hour west of Toronto known for its environmentalism, agriculture and veterinary studies, and its small vibrant arts scene. Itâs also the home...
Black and Blues: Encounters With the Police State
On the morning of February 21, 2012, I woke up around 3AM, hands and feet shackled to a gurney at Bellevue Hospital in NYC. Blood was pounding in my brain,...
The Zines of TerezĂn
The sixth piece in our Polity of Literature series: TerezĂn was a purpose-built ghetto the Nazis used as a smokescreen for genocide. 33,000 Jews died there and another 88,000 were...
The Virus and Us
The Virus and Us is an animated instructional video created by Jacob Cohen, Kaylee Renaud and I (Max Cohen) to help kids understand the coronavirus pandemic. The short film focuses...
Microcosm/Microcosme
microcosm This room was once Rielâs and then Claraâs bedroom but more recently it serves as my zazen room, a guest bedroom, a quiet space and a sound editing studio. ...