
Zines From a Revolution
The 26th piece in the Polity of Literature series describes an extensive archive of 1970s and ’80s gay poetry collected by literary activist Charles Shively.
The 26th piece in the Polity of Literature series describes an extensive archive of 1970s and ’80s gay poetry collected by literary activist Charles Shively.
Reading between the lines of history, the author finds queer kinship in the literature left behind by his gay ancestors.
The 25th piece in the Polity of Literature series looks at the special features the comics form brings to politics, and the uses various North American countercultures have made of them.
This podcast features elements of improvisation in daily life for a first-generation immigrant to Canada. Featuring TV producer, Amit Tandon.
The 23rd piece in the Polity of Literature series considers which metaphors are best-suited to the writing and reading of fan fiction.
The 19th piece in the Polity of Literature series tells the story of one neighbourhood’s effort to make its own reading room when the local library branch closed.
The 18th piece in the Polity of Literature series describes the range of tools Kathy Acker used to work freely outside the literary establishment.
The 17th piece in the Polity of Literature series looks at two political models that resist oppressive systems and offer possibilities for the future emergence of a polity of literature.
The 16th piece in the Polity of Literature series contemplates Arendt’s idea of a plurality that can be enacted in the agora of a written text or in the public square.
Creative translations of the multi-dimensional ways that we can be and are together, even while faced with great pain, tension, and uncertainty.
Six encounters at six social distances, told incrementally through prose and needle painting.
A journalist offers insight on the COVID-19 response in Africa, while struggling to explain social distancing to her young daughter.