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The Visual Life of Revolution: Archival and Counter-archival Narratives of Revolt

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Let us begin with two images of the Sudanese uprising. The first you will at once recognize – […]

Leena Habiballa December 19, 2020 archives, media studies, Photography, radical politics, revolution, Sudan, Unofficial Archives

The David Bacon Photography Archive: Capturing the Struggle for Social Justice in Photos

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Bacon documented workers in the fields, strikes by teachers and hotel workers in cities, poverty and homelessness in the streets, marches for immigrants’ rights and much more.

Nick Rahaim November 11, 2020 capitalism, labor, Mexican Americans, Photography

This Week’s Best Of: LSD, Queer Theory and Self-Harm Chic

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What happened this week?  Seriously, we’re not sure.  Trump wobbled (predictably) in his trade war with Europe, blithely […]

Alex Sayf Cummings July 27, 2018 Aneurysms, Best of, gay rights, gender, technology, transgender

A Past Resurfaced: Memories of Survival and Escape from the Khmer Rouge

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In the summer of 2014, my grandma began digging into the old pile of long-forgotten photographs she hoarded […]

Unofficial Archives March 20, 2017 Asia, Asian American history, Asian Americans, human rights, immigration, Unofficial Archives

Ciudad de Oro y Plata: Impressions of Mexico City

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I am not exactly the world’s most cosmopolitan traveler. I never got on a plane until I was […]

Alex Sayf Cummings December 3, 2015 architecture, cities, Mexico, radical politics, travel

Karachi: A Sensory History

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Karachi is one of the world’s largest cities—by some measures, the second largest in terms of population, and […]

Alex Sayf Cummings January 16, 2015 Pakistan, sensory history, South Asia, transportation, travel, urban studies
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