“My habitats are people,” shares Joburg-based indie singer Moonga K. “People I have deep, meaningful friendships with. People and spaces where I don’t feel alone. People I’ve lodged in my heart and mind indefinitely.”
Recent Posts
Seven forgettings in slow descent (Isles of the Snails, Trinidad)
To this gulf of shimmer and night sweats
where the howler monkeys’ call
startled syphilis-stricken Columbus …
“They’re All Coming With Me,” Illustrations by Caitlin Peck
Three illustrations by Philadelphia artist, Caitlin Peck, on the meaning of space.
Flux
It wasn’t the clamor of the birds, or the loneliness of the buildings, or even the guilt surrounding the stolen contents of the crates behind me. I had long since convinced myself to stop worrying about these things. It was something in the air—a heavy, sticky feeling. A sense of dread …
Cities and Eyes: The Twin Cities
As she travels the winding road, the traveller pulls threads from her clothes and uses the dust under her fingernails to construct the unknown city in her palm before she gets there. She hides this model from her companion, ashamed of its size …
Private War: Haiku Series
Continuing the haiku series with an exploration of the battleground that is ‘home’
he is a town
the townsfolk are both wary and warm. they aren’t cat or dog people, but will tolerate the occasional retriever …
A visitor’s guide to Leiden
In this town there are bats, /
Bats in churches who squat without permits, /
All of them know where the bells are now …
Everyone Wants a Working Class Origin Story Without having a Working Class Origin Story
“Even now, in an era of checking your privilege, our country’s anti-aristocracy history makes people uncomfortable with their own inherited wealth and status. They are uncomfortable enough that they create these working class origin stories, but they are not uncomfortable enough, in most cases, to fight the system of inequality…”
“Winds of Change,” a photo series by Tessa O’Halloran
“Winds of Change” is part of a series by South African artist Tessa O’Halloran about rooting and rerooting in one’s homeland.
The Mountains Are Melting: A Discussion about Climate Change in Nepal
The Himalayas are not just an aesthetically beautiful mountain range. They stretch over 8 countries and contain the world’s largest volume of glacier ice and perennial snow outside of the polar regions. The melting of the Himalayas puts a quarter of the world’s population at risk from water scarcity and it endangers downstream communities from adverse climate induced disasters …
“Thrown Out” by Apu
“Thrown Out” is part of a series by non-binary artist Apu from northern Germany.
Witness
The cars with their exhausted tires are burning, the air inside is burning,
The men in suits and their shiny shoes are burning …
