The Collective Work of Abolition
Organizer and educator Mariame Kaba discusses transformative justice, refusing a politics of revenge, and her new book, We Do This ‘Til We Free Us.
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The Queer Art of Divorce
Composer Ethan Philbrick and novelist Torrey Peters discuss what it means to make art and community after a marriage ends.
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Loving By Knowing Less
Performer Sharon Mashihi discusses using autofiction to arrive at the truth of the first-generation experience in her new audio series, Appearances.
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Siege Mentality
The Jewish Currents editorial staff discusses what the Capitol putsch means for the right and the left.
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White Savior Cinema
A conversation with Palestinian German director Lexi Alexander about Wonder Woman’s promotion of Arab stereotypes, her experiences of racism behind the camera, and the stakes of accurately portraying marginalized communities on screen.
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Visions in Penal Time
Scholar Nicole R. Fleetwood discusses how incarcerated artists navigate the constraints of the prison’s built environment.
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The Palestinian Cause at a Moment of Transition
On the eve of the Biden administration, after the manifest failure of Oslo, four Palestinian thinkers ask: Where do we go from here?
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Oedipal Riot
Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 includes glimpses of the real, drained of ideological significance.
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Calling a Nazi a Nazi
Journalist Talia Lavin discusses the imperative—and the dangers—of covering the far right.
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Are We Post-Sepharadim?
A conversation with scholar Devin E. Naar about what meaningful Sephardic representation might look like in the wake of near-total erasure.
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