The Art of the Accused: A Conversation

ConversationSeptember 24, 2018

Deborah Solomon, A. O. Scott, Tanya Selvaratnam, and Maggie Mustard discuss the issues surrounding power, spectatorship, violence, gender, labor, and media consumption at Art of the Accused. More

Toward New Symbols and Platforms

Nonfiction
By: | September 20, 2017

Interrogating our national symbols is necessary to disrupting and dismantling power, but so is erecting new symbols and stories, or rather amplifying and holding space for stories that have… More

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