Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
What shapes do solidarities take in these strange times we are living in? How can we find and forge solidarities when faced with genocides, human rights violations, and inexplicable injustices daily? Can storytelling play a role in liberation?
Contents
Editorial
Awaiting the Next Time
Sana Goyal
Lead Feature
Psychogeography
Safia Elhillo
Articles
'It Cannot be Left Unchallenged': Solidarity and the Grammar of Ungovernability
Lola Olufemi
Students as the Vanguard: British-based Solidarities with the Palestinian Revolution
Rami Rmeileh and Sorcha Thomson
Interleafing the Philoctetes Figure: Derek Walcott's Omeros and The Isle is Full of Noises
Gavin Herbertson
Life Writing
Breathing Between Bubbles: A Leib-University in Exile
Yana Suchikova
You Made Me: A Butch-Femme Love Song
Sita Balani
Interviews
Translating the Colonial Wound: A Conversation with Daniela Catrileo
Yeisil Peña Contreras
Sand Under the Foundation: A Conversation with Joe Sacco
Zena Agha
Intimacy as Futurity: A Conversation with Tareq Baconi and Saleem Haddad
George Abraham
Fraternity Across Geography: A Conversation on Palestine and Kashmir
Isabella Hammad and Mirza Waheed
Art
The Nation You Find: In Conversation with Massoud Hayoun
Vamika Sinha
Fiction
The Xiezhi
C K Liu
The Woods Fall Like Water
Shanaia Kapoor
Poetry
From the Ruins of Centrale Car Park, Croydon
Jay Bernard
To The Bench at Refaat Alareer's Library
Rebecca Pattichis
For Language
Andrew Riad
Chinese Medicine or the Dance of Grief
Tang Siu Wa. Translated from Chinese by Michelle Chan Schmidt
rumours
The Mollusc Dimension
When the City Teaches Me 'We'
Fizra Nayab
It's the End, I Think
Alene Terzian-Zeitounian
Review Essay
Together We Win
Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom – Camonghne Felix
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity – Sarah Schulman
We Are Each Other's Liberation – Edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A Swift, and T D Tso
Isabelle Baafi
Reviews
Refuge: Stories of War (and Love) – Sunny Singh
Durre Shahwar
Andhar Bil – Kalyani Thakur Charal. Translated by Asit Biswas
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF – Edited by R T Samuel, Rakesh K, and Rashmi R D
Ananya Mishra
Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy – Kasia Szymanska
Tamil Terrains: Poems, Translations, Reflections – Edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran
Kashif Sharma-Patel
Lōal Kashmir: Love and Longing in a Torn Land – Mehak Jamal
Sayan Aich Bhowmik
October – Nur Turkmani
My County's Hair Turned White: Selected Poems – Dilawar Karadaghi. Translated by Jiyar Homer with Mike Baynham
Lara El Mekaui
The Book of Sana'a: A City in Short Fiction – Edited by Laura Kasinof
Floodlines – Saleem Haddad
Gaar Adams
Uprising – Tahmima Anam
The Mires – Tina Makereti
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
Indigenous Affinities: Toward Solidarity Across the Global South – Amal Eqeiq
Christina Acosta
West of West Indian – Linzey Corridon
Guaracara – Fawzia Muradali Kane
Desirée Seebaran
Sololand – Hassan Blasim. Translated by Jonathan Wright
Annie Webster
