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“IMPERMANENCE” – This piece seeks to materialize a notion of impermanence where water and earth converge, capturing a moment of constant change, of growth and decay, of birth and death.

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issue 3. TABLE OF CONTENTS

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HYBRID
An abstract landscape of brightly colored shapes.

Three Scenes from the 5
(a writer’s sketchbook)

Justine Yan

POETRY
Two white sheep on a field, staring at the camera.

Christchurch

Bassam Sidiki

ESSAY
a bright glowing moon sits in the middle of a starlit black sky; in the foreground a dark-skinned girl wears a bountiful hat of corn while holding a mask with eyes and lips of enlarged cowrie shells; she is adorned in a green tunic that wraps around her waist, a red multi-layered necklace draping her chest, and large wrist cuffs; she is facing the viewers her gaze brazenly meeting the audience head on.

Science Fiction as an
Abolitionist Tool

Ksenia Firsova

ESSAY
Old-school boomboxes hanging on wall with patterned designed in red and blue

Why A Tribe Called Quest’s “Excursions” Is The Only Hip-Hop Song You Need

Daniel Dominguez

POETRY
a concrete bridge stretches across the Nile in Khartoum, Sudan

Inquiry in Verse (or)
The Magic of Writing

shah noor hussein

ESSAY

Young, Black, and Magical: The
Renaissance of YA Afrofuturism
and Speculative Fiction

Charlotte Taylor

ESSAY
Black and white print of an elderly woman holding flowers in her hand with a hummingbird

Lineage and Language

Ruddy Lopez

POETRY
Painting of four abstract figures holding a female corpse, with a dog, against a melting sky

Visiting Hours

Anny L. Mogollón

ESSAY

Fleeing Backwards: The Problematic Present in Medieval Studies

Kersti Francis

featuredArtists

a Black woman faces the viewer at a three-quarter profile, her eyes and face turned the left of the frame; around her face is an assortment of geometric shapes: a concentric set of circles, isosceles triangles extending backwards to infinity as they fade from view, and a large clear circle, finally, golden circles wrap around her head like a halo; her face, hair, and neck are adorned with gold jewelry shaped like sacred object, including a moon, crocodile, planets, and more.

Bushmama Africa, Andromedae, 2020

“GARDEN OF CONSCIOUSNESS: MOMENT OF CONFRONTATION” – Partial separation from a monument to capitalism and shifting of spatial volume to generate a feeling of collapse as the viewer observes a separation of two worlds.

Mary Alvarez, Garden of Consciousness:
Moment of Confrontation, 2013

three sudanese women place their henna patterned hands in the center of a circle, the patterns are fresh and wet, recently applied and still drying, the photographers left hand enters the frame from the bottom, hovering slightly above the other but reaching below to them.

shah noor hussein, Sudanese Siblings, 2018

a black and white rainbow arches over stacks of white eyes on black paper, at the tops of the paper stacks, the eyes begin to pull out of the stacks, their heads and necks coming out into the rainbow

Sam Vernon, ghost rainbow, 2011

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