In December 2025, writer and artist Jay Bernard spoke to the experimental vocalist, composer, and movement artist Elaine Mitchener at the University of Cambridge, following a thirty-minute performance by Mitchener. Accompanied by an introductory note from Bernard, read their discussion on the multidisciplinary nature of Elaine's work, the evolution of grassroots activism, her influences ranging from Jamaican music to 1970s-80s American poetry and rap, sound and improvisation across music and poetics, the ubiquity of the 'archive', and much more. This piece is commissioned in tandem with Wasafiri 127: Solidarities.

London-based photographer Zeashan Ashraf has been documenting the solidarity movement for Palestine since October 2023, photographing thousands of people across the UK who have come together, again and again, to reclaim public spaces and imperial sites in order to call for an end to the occupation and genocide in Palestine and the British government's involvement in it. In this photo essay, Ashraf shares images he has taken of various protest sites, encampments, and acts of solidarity across the country, while reflecting on his experiences of witnessing and recording these vital historical moments that are still underreported and maligned in mainstream media.  This piece is commissioned in tandem with Wasafiri 127: Solidarities.

In this incisive interview, Zena Agha speaks to one of the world's greatest cartoonists and journalists, Joe Sacco. They talk about his 2003 book, Palestine, in the context of the ongoing genocide, his most recent release, The Once and Future Riot (2025), which investigates the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal riots in India, and other work from across his decades-long career. Speaking openly about his positionality and experiences as a journalist and outsider to regions he covers, Sacco opens up about the brutality he has witnessed firsthand, the loss of hope, US foreign policy, settler logic, journalistic ethics, and more, in a conversation at once deeply personal and sharply political. This is an extract from Wasafiri 127: Solidarities.