I, Coronavirus. Mother. Monster. Activist.
Writings[Day 27 | Year Zero ADc*] *After Declaration of COVID-19 as a Global Pandemic by the World Health Organization Author’s Note: This essay is an experiment in speculative fabulation, in reframes and the telling of wild facts.[1] Think of...
Be a Good Host
Uncategorizedby Toni Spencer Welcome monsters, the fuck ups, the loneliness, the judgements. The growling, the grieving and the fears. Welcome the monsters. Slowly, let them find the seat they like. It may be your favourite chair, your lap, or ...
Grounding VUNJA: Fieldnotes from my Journey to the Old ‘New World’
UncategorizedGRATITUDE: I want to thank all those who made this trip to Brazil possible and whose work and gifts have inspired me to speak, to explore, to search, to write, to think and to hope a queer kind of hope. This trip to Brazil didn’t begin...
Announcing GIFT – a film by our friend Robin McKenna
UncategorizedWhat better response to the apocalypse could there be than courage, generosity, and our best creative selves? Times are dark… but the spirit of the gift lives, and might be the most important thing we have to offer. “In times like these,...
Da Favela com Amor
UncategorizedEducar é o maior ato de amor, o aprendizado é real quando temos amorosidade. Sem pensar, apenas sentir, sentir o presente de conhecer o outro e sua bagagem. Com o olhar de 360º graus, sem exclusão, apenas devemos amar, receber e sent...
Kebradas UniDiversity goes to India
Courses & Un/Learning ExpeditionsOur incredible TEN Fellow, Giselle Paulino, is co-creating a remarkable Un/learning Journey in February with five of the mestres of Kebradas UniDiversity in Brazil. They are partnering with our mentors, Vidhi and Manish Jain to offer an ...
Mushroom news
UncategorizedOur curator Nuno Da Silva is now the editor of the Mushroom and is composting the current format to give life to an underground guerilla style series of events designed to create spaces in which we can share and engage in challenging con...
Vunja News
UncategorizedVunja means “rupture”! The Emergence Network’s ‘Vunja’ is a social art project – inspired by the historical resilience, troubles, journeys and promise of African peoples – that seeks to galvanize a trans-local community around a set of...
The Allegory of the Pit: Or the Irony of Victory
WritingsExiting Plato’s Cave Perhaps there are few who haven’t heard about Plato or his famous allegory of the cave. The influential 5th century Greek philosopher – whose commitments to strengthening the nascent intellectual traditions of ...
Favelas as Other Places of Power
UncategorizedIn Mestres das Kebradas, TEN Fellow Giselle Paulino shows us how the favela is a site of ‘queer’ power, learning and community. Take a look at some of the ongoing projects that are reclaiming the favela as an alternative to the disenchan...