As a queer intersectional feminist platform, Futuress strives to be a home for the people, histories, and perspectives that have been—and still often remain—underrepresented, oppressed, and ignored.
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“An Opportunity to Challenge the Status Quo”
Camille Circlude on institutional transformation with the Teaching to Transgress* Research Group.
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Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards
Suggestions for an intersectional feminist citational practice to visual references.
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Automated Precarity and Commodified Time
How AI changes work—from unjust Uber algorithms to psychologically harmful clickwork.
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Feeling the Museum: Towards Multi-sensory Mediation
How dominant practices rooted in ableism exclude tactile knowledge and Blind perception in museums.
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A Guarani Nhandewa anthropologist writes on the courage of Indigenous women and the wisdom of the body.
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Practices of Regard: Images, Memories, Words
June 20, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Darcy Alexandra
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Public Fictions: Methods for (World)Building Different Futures
Sep 5, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Ann Mbuti
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Working with the Archive: Reflecting on Collective Research
Sep 19, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Hybrid Project Space
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Letters I Never Sent: Yearning in Science Fiction
Oct 17, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Sherida Kuffour
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The Language of Art: Celebrating Connection Through Doing Art
Oct 31, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CET | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Habib Afsar
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Co-producing Publics: Questioning, Performative Acts, and Temporary Interventions
Nov 07, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CET | on-site only at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Eva Chen and Circuit Sessions
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Living Technologies: Knowledge-Making Beyond the Machine
Feb 26, 2026 | 6 pm CET | online | free | Unwired Currents lectures | with Lindsey Allen, Sandra Cane, Juan Fortun, Cyan Huescar, and Mahoutondji Kinmagbo
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Pressing Issues: Printing Futures, Publishing Resistance
Oct 2025–Jan 2026 | online | paid series
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The Politics of Language: Anti-Ableist Narrative and Queer Arab Slang
Jan 22, 2026 | 6 pm CET | paid | lecture within the “Pressing Issues” series | with Ly Xīnzhèn Zhǎngsūn Brown and Marwan Kaabour
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A Softly Humming Defiance
Strategies of trans care in DIY hormone therapy.
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Practices of Regard: Images, Memories, Words
June 20, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Darcy Alexandra
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Public Fictions: Methods for (World)Building Different Futures
Sep 5, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Ann Mbuti
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Working with the Archive: Reflecting on Collective Research
Sep 19, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Hybrid Project Space
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Letters I Never Sent: Yearning in Science Fiction
Oct 17, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CEST | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Sherida Kuffour
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The Language of Art: Celebrating Connection Through Doing Art
Oct 31, 2026 | 3:30–6:30 pm CET | online and at DOCK Basel | free | Engaging Publics workshop | with Habib Afsar
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Co-producing Publics: Questioning, Performative Acts, and Temporary Interventions
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Living Technologies: Knowledge-Making Beyond the Machine
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Pressing Issues: Printing Futures, Publishing Resistance
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The Politics of Language: Anti-Ableist Narrative and Queer Arab Slang
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Launching Pressing Issues—an online event series discussing the politics of translating, archiving, and publishing!
We are excited to release this year’s paid online series: Pressing Issues—Printing Futures, Publishing Resistance! From October 2025 to January 2026, six online lectures, one tutorial, and one
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On the Seam—a collaboration with the Department of Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria!
On May 8 and 9, we’ll host a free online symposium with the Department of Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria!
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Behind the scenes of self-organized spaces—Futuress in Stockholm!
In February, Futuress co-director Mio Kojima embarked on a five-day visit to Stockholm, Sweden, as part of the “expert visit” and seminar program by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee IASPIS.
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The Futuress team grows temporarily: Welcome Heba Daghstani!
We are thrilled to announce that long-term Futuress community member Heba Daghistani will support us from January to July 2026! After participating in Futuress’ second fellowship, the Troublemakers’ Class of
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Building bridges—translating five Futuress texts into Japanese with Tokyo-based publisher Troublemakers
We are excited to share the fruits of a collaboration with Tokyo-based independent publisher Troublemakers! Over the past few months, the two platforms have been carefully selecting five out of
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Unwired Currents—a new collaboration redefining technologies
Together with the think & do tank Dezentrum, we received funding from the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia to collaborate with design researcher and long-time Futuress contributing editor Franca López
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A glimpse into Futuress’ endeavors in “Publishing Anecdotes”
In July, co-director Mio Kojima talked about her journey at Futuress in a
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“A Critical Statement” by Sophie Thurner republished by the WOMAN OPEN TECH LAB!
First published on Futuress in February 2022, “A Critical Statement
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#Living Archives: Centering oral history and non-hegemonic historiographies.
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“Anthropology Is a Way of Being”
Farah Hallaba on bridging academia and community through participatory research.
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“Stretching the Meaning of Public Space”
Nadia Mounier on documenting Cairo, gender politics, and the tensions of image-making in a changing Egypt.
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Embargoed Memories
Reckoning with the Portuguese violent colonial past through fragments of my family’s heirloom.
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Circling the Circassian Identity
Chronicles of nationless-ness, scattered souls, and fragmented selves.
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(Re)claiming Archives: استعادة الأرشيف
A palace of memories for collective imagination
قصر للذاكرة الجماعية والأحلام العامة لتتذكرها وتتخيلها
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Flat-Packed History
Disassembling simplified narratives and recovering anti-imperialist histories in Northern Ireland.
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A Race Against Time
How the digital gallery Swatch Bharat is documenting the rapidly disappearing native Indian aesthetic.
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“Please Say More”
Bec Wonders on the Vancouver Women’s Library, the legacy of feminist archives, and the complex history of female conflict.
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#Feminist Curricula: Reimagining design education as a practice of unlearning and relearning.
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Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards
Suggestions for an intersectional feminist citational practice to visual references.
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Navigating the Culture of Critique
Why Indian design education needs a plural understanding of decolonization.
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أحْرُف وكَلِمَاتْ وقِصَصْ A Multi-Script Type Design Program
Imagining a playground for collective archiving, researching and letter-making.
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Institutional Frictions
Reflecting on the possibilities and challenges of bringing activism into the design classroom
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A Critical Statement
Why I became a product designer who does not want to design products.
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“Teach What You Need to Learn”
A conversation about the Swedish Master program critically addressing visual standards and promoting “norm creativity.”
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The Last Shift
Field notes from La Entrega Final, or how feminist activism plays itself in the Chair of Design and Gender Studies at FADU, Buenos Aires.
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Learning from the Vernacular
A conversation with Clara Balaguer on the copyother, ethical piracy, and trolling graphic design.
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Does Design Care?
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Enough is Enough
Art & Design students lead the charge to expose the abusive underbelly of France's education system.
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Long Nights
Do art universities educate students to exploit themselves? Short answer: Yes.
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Glowing Red Letters
How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form.
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Calling Out Dutch Art Institutions
An anonymous Instagram account cries for accountability in the Dutch art and design scene. What happens next?
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Oh, Dear Diversity
A poem recalling memories of arrival, confrontations, and healing.
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.
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A Softly Humming Defiance
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On Rehearsing Access
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Urban Recyclers: On Taking over the Means of Production
How cartoneros in Buenos Aires paved the way to social and environmental sustainability.
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A Beautiful Mess: Moving Towards Non-binary Language
Transcending hegemonic expression and embracing typographic activism with the Bye Bye Binary collective.
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On Caste: The Roots of Discrimination in Indian Design
What using a debrahaminizing lens tells us about power relations and discrimination in the Indian design practice and education.
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Multiple Feminisms, Collective Struggles
How Argentina’s 35th Plurinational Meeting of Women, Lesbians, Trans, Travesti, Intersex, Bisexual, and Non-Binary shapes feminisms in 2022.
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MOTHER TONGUE / מאַמע-לשון / MAME LUSHEN
What designing an interscriptual typeface tells us about legibility, Jewish visual culture and the feeling of inbetweenship.
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“Democracy in Iran Will Arrive Through Women”
Feminist activist Shirin Ebadi discusses why the women-led protests in Iran may herald the regime change.
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#TRAVESSIAS—CROSSINGS: Translating urgent Afro-Brazilian voices originally published in Portuguese by the Brazilian platform Piseagrama.
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A Guarani Nhandewa anthropologist writes on the courage of Indigenous women and the wisdom of the body.
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Taming the Chalk
A Xakriabá activist reclaims the enduring power of clay, genipap, and chalk for a decolonized education.
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We Belong to the Land
Insights from a quilombola thinker on Brazil’s state-sanctioned violence and the power of oral traditions.
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Becoming Savage
A Guarani Mbya leader on environmental activism, food autonomy, and why we should all challenge the concept of “civilization.”
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#Epistemic Activism: A deep-dive into the politics of language and knowledge production.
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Feeling the Museum: Towards Multi-sensory Mediation
How dominant practices rooted in ableism exclude tactile knowledge and Blind perception in museums.
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Kusvikirwa: A Decolonial Spirit
Reconnecting with the past through ancestral practices in Zimbabwe.
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Navigating the Culture of Critique
Why Indian design education needs a plural understanding of decolonization.
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Who Gets to Design Arabic Typography?
A pledge for politicizing Arabic type design, overturning exclusionary notions of ‘quality,’ and challenging classist gatekeeping to the profession.
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A Canon Misbound: Feminist Lessons in Print
The lack of written accounts about Norwegian graphic design is a chance to question norms and explore non-traditional historiographic methods.
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How Far We’ve Cum: Sweden’s “Sex Ed” Through Time
Historically, the same pitfall: society changes fast, and schools cannot bear the full responsibility for sex education alone. What next?
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“What the Cl*t?” A Designer’s Take on the Orgasm Gap
People with clitorises don’t orgasm nearly as much as people with penises. Could illustrations help us to become more cliterate?
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Judging by the Cover: Racial Bias in Design Publishing
Design books are overwhelmingly cis, male, and white. Designers: I dare you to face your bookshelf and check who is—and who isn’t—there.
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#Vulnerable Observers: Exploring how the personal is political—from body politics to mental health.
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I Don’t Want to Quote Anyone but Myself
A lyrical resistance blooming where exile and memory intertwine, reclaiming the self in full.
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Parda: Of Roots, Curls and Race
A Brazilian’s entangled journey to Black awareness in a whitewashed world.
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Living an Immigrant Life
Settling and unsettling experiences of an Argentinian designer living abroad.
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Bodies and selves: Reflections on visual coding and identity.
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Imaginations of Care
Curator Keyna Eleison making a case for expanding knowledges.
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Soul Consuming
Researcher and designer Ann Kern talks about the difficulties of 2020, the toll of doing political design projects, and how she learned to say “No.”
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Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way
A conversation with (some members of) Decolonising Design, a group founded in 2016 by eight design researchers, artists, and activists, stemming from the Global South.
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#Earthshaking: Advocating for environmental justice and exposing extractivst practices.
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“Sustainability Without Class Struggle is Just Gardening”
Victoria Nascimento Veiga’s journey toward socially and environmentally conscious fashion.
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A Water Story
Tracing the ebbs and flows of India’s shifting aquatic ecosystems
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When a Stone Says No
Following willful stones and the creative potential of refusal against cultural colonialism.
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#Fashion #SustainableFashion #FashionFutures
Debunking hashtags to imagine generative fashion systems in times of ecological collapse.
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Un-sustaining Sustainability?
Tracing the colonial origins of India’s rising “sustainable” fashion industry
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A Bridge Between Many Worlds
Industrial designer Iskander Guetta talks about learning from Marrakech, Bangalore, and beyond.
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#Objects of Interest: Revealing the stories and socio-political implications behind designed objects.
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Automated Precarity and Commodified Time
How AI changes work—from unjust Uber algorithms to psychologically harmful clickwork.
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Designing Belief: A Journey into the Sacred Art of Phrakhreūang
How tradition, history, and social development converge in Thailand’s amulet culture.
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A Tribute to Feira Do Pau
A stroll through Maputo’s Ebony Market and the relational power of Mozambican design.
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A House and a Hole
How industrial exploitation and extractivism destroy lands, bodies, and architectural practices in Morocco.
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A Passive Mob: How Video Games Silence Dissent
Often game design enacts protest as something negative or apolitical. How could it instead ignite criticality and political agency?
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Hey Woman, Are You a Roti? Patriarchy and Indian Flatbread
What the making and unmaking of one of India’s most celebrated foods tell us about traditional female roles, unpaid labor, and revolution
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Reflejos Ajenos
The museum, national identity and the impossibility of classifying the intangible.
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Gold
Fighting for existence in the wake of stolen wealth, toxic metals, gilded bureaucrats and golden visas.
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#Politics of Display: Examining the politics of visibility and invisibility manifested in designed systems.
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Dissenting Voices
Typography’s role in the Lebanese sectarian protests.
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Pastel-Coated Violence
How online culture aestheticizes militarism and oppression through sexualization and hyper-cuteness.
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Real Activism or Clicks without a Cause?
Our social media experiences are not neutral. How can we engage without fuelling a platform conducive to performative allyship?
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Fabricating the Dodo: the Making and Unmaking of a Bird
Revealing natural history museums’ politics of preservation and representation through an uncanny encounter with the most famous extinct bird.
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The Currency of an Identity: Designing Egyptian Banknotes
In search of Egyptian identity from ancient Pharaonic civilization, Islamic heritage, pan-Arabism, and back through the study of its banknotes.
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Yemanjá, the Whitewashed Orisha
Unpacking Brazilian diasporic memories and aspects of structural racism through an iconographic analysis.
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Reflejos Ajenos
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South is Up
On subjective worlds, alternative Earths, and map projections.
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An Incomplete Directory of Feminist Bookstores
From fresh new shops to decade old strongholds, these are our community’s favourite places to get books and make friends.
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A Resource Hub for Decolonizing Typography
Texts, lectures and other materials that help disrupt the Eurocentric status quo in type design education and practice.
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#Feminist Findings: Searching for the missing stories of feminist periodicals from the past.
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A Letter from the Future
Connecting across time and space with the team behind Berlin’s Courage magazine.
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Pen Pal Plots
A fictional American woman‘s correspondence with three memorable cover girls that graced the magazine Soviet Woman.
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Some Serious Surprises
A list of articles on feminist publishing in the 1980s feminist art magazine Chrysalis.
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Follow the Money
Questioning the politics of the US funding of Lebanese women’s studies journal Al-Raida.
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Iterative at Heart
Spare Rib’s continuously shifting design found a middle-ground between mainstream and counterculture.
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Feminism. What’s In a Word?
Reclaiming the keyword for women’s liberation from misogynistic nineteenth-century French literature.
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“What Do You Think History Is?”
A brief conversation with Liza Cowan, editor of 1970s lesbian separatist periodical DYKE A Quarterly.
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Torn in Two Directions
The journal making space for Muslim women’s voices during France’s notorious “veil affair.”
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Bronze-Verdigris: a Colonial History
Seeking liberty in stolen bowls, historical mansions, deadly wallpapers, and fugitive greens.
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Gold
Fighting for existence in the wake of stolen wealth, toxic metals, gilded bureaucrats and golden visas.
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Yellow
Framing and re-framing oppression through cinematic clichés, khaki hues, and a desert of lies.
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Blue
Bolting a chain of exploitation, from hardy rocky plants, to deep indigo dyes, and monumental stones.
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Red
Tracing the bloodline of an ink from sixteenth century Abya Yala to the National Gallery in London.
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The Promise of Translation
Futuress’s editors reflect on the feminist politics of carrying stories across affective, geographical, and linguistic borders.
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Futuress Beginnings
An online magazine on the politics of design, a community space for transnational solidarity.
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