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An independent leftist magazine collecting criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and art • Support us at http://patreon.com/proteanmag
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typing this through tears. this is a beautiful collection.
In "We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices," poet & organizer Amanda Najib (@AmandaNajib) offers a polyphonic narrative of motherhood in Palestine & the diaspora –– a generational struggle "to mother a child / while the world un-mothers itself." proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/we-…
“They say Gaza is unlivable. / But what they mean is that it is still alive.” proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/we-…
I really like this essay about the language of conservation from Protean mag proteanmag.com/2023/06/13/inv…
今月26日に『パレスチナを破壊することは、地球を破壊することである』（箱田徹訳 青土社）が刊行されるアンドレアス・マルムへの最新インタビューを翻訳しました。コロンビア滞在から、パレスチナと化石帝国、気候運動の未来まで @proteanmag @climatexstrike @bernajurema ship-and-wind.com/2025/07/21/unc…
“the seized hospital, the seized lobby, the seized intersection, the seized campus building means I love you more than all of this [...] the death-making deliberately unmade means I love you. The unmaking means I love you, too.” – Jacqui Germain proteanmag.com/2025/07/12/i-l…
Fand ich eine aufschlussreiche Kritik. Passt zum Thema des Threads. proteanmag.com/2025/01/31/bei…
"Perhaps the worst moment in the entire farce is when Al-Ghoul tries to explain, in response to the first question about his feelings about Hamas, that Israeli violence did not begin on October 7th." proteanmag.com/2025/07/08/you…
I keep returning to this brilliant poem by Amanda Najib on motherhood/mothering in Palestine for this stanza alone:
In "We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices," poet & organizer Amanda Najib (@AmandaNajib) offers a polyphonic narrative of motherhood in Palestine & the diaspora –– a generational struggle "to mother a child / while the world un-mothers itself." proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/we-…
check out these revolutionary love letters from @jaykayg "The hands reinforcing the barricade mean I love you."
In "i love you more than the law will let me," parts 1 and 2, poet and journalist Jacqui Germain (@jaykayg) extols the barricade, the torched precinct, and the looted storefront as the highest expressions of revolutionary tenderness. proteanmag.com/2025/07/12/i-l…
breathtaking work from @proteanmag about the resilience of motherhood in palestine
In "We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices," poet & organizer Amanda Najib (@AmandaNajib) offers a polyphonic narrative of motherhood in Palestine & the diaspora –– a generational struggle "to mother a child / while the world un-mothers itself." proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/we-…
Oh my God
In "We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices," poet & organizer Amanda Najib (@AmandaNajib) offers a polyphonic narrative of motherhood in Palestine & the diaspora –– a generational struggle "to mother a child / while the world un-mothers itself." proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/we-…
powerful poems
In "We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices," poet & organizer Amanda Najib (@AmandaNajib) offers a polyphonic narrative of motherhood in Palestine & the diaspora –– a generational struggle "to mother a child / while the world un-mothers itself." proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/we-…
Third Red Scare, Same as the First • Protean Magazine proteanmag.com/2025/06/26/thi…
so thrilled to publish new work by @jaykayg –– two vivifying poems on barricades and thrown bricks as forms of revolutionary love: "the death-making deliberately unmade / means I love you."
In "i love you more than the law will let me," parts 1 and 2, poet and journalist Jacqui Germain (@jaykayg) extols the barricade, the torched precinct, and the looted storefront as the highest expressions of revolutionary tenderness. proteanmag.com/2025/07/12/i-l…
"The pressurized environment of the nuclear family isolated the child and tasked the mother with mediating the child’s access to the world under intense scrutiny according to racialized and classed standards." proteanmag.com/2025/05/20/the…
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In "i love you more than the law will let me," parts 1 and 2, poet and journalist Jacqui Germain (@jaykayg) extols the barricade, the torched precinct, and the looted storefront as the highest expressions of revolutionary tenderness. proteanmag.com/2025/07/12/i-l…
...a modern-day politics of anti-colonial internationalism ought to leave room for grassroots resistance against corporate greed and neoliberal globalization, conceptualizing these fights as distinctly anti-colonial in nature. @proteanmag proteanmag.com/2025/04/18/ban…
"[T]he specter of distant, violent Octobers swallowing the U.S.—and New York City in particular—[is once again being] used to justify the suspension of free speech and due process of non-citizens." proteanmag.com/2025/06/26/thi…
