The Body of a King
by Samuel Tafreshi
What is to be done with the body of a king? When all of the meaning and majesty imbued in his person shrivels and fades before the world, what does he become?
Not, Not Nation
by Panos Aprahamian
A radical re-envisioning of how anti-capitalist political projects should conceive of time and place.
Fragile Facades: Illusions of Change in Kabul’s Contemporary Architecture
by Muheb Esmat,
In a country still living through the effects of a conflict more than four decades old, the rate of obsolescence of architectural styles and modes is as fast if not faster than the denigrating political and economic systems fostering them.
The Commander of Who?
by Marcus Hibbeln
While ‘inclusive’ to a certain extent, the state-sponsored brand of Islam in Morocco has often been an exclusionary national force that has monopolized the interpretation of Islam and alienated large groups of citizens.
Between Party & Protest
by Angela Brussel
The people will sing and dance even when they are being persecuted and beat down. Even when they are enraged by the powers that be.
The Question of Solidarity: #BlackOutTuesday and Radio Alhara
“How do you connect solidarities together in a way that makes it organic, that makes it contextualized, and also makes it true?”
To Gather Together
Chime for Change’s upcoming issue joins in the fight against child marriages.
Lipstick vs. The Ayatollah
by Monica Zandi,
“I didn’t know Iranian women looked like that.”
Atopia: The Mind in Winter
by Darius Rejali,
It’s an uncertain day, the kind where you wonder, did I stay in this city a little too long?
Urban Decay
by Sheyda Allahverdiyeva,
Harmonic coexistence “of Azerbaijani with the Jewish, Armenian, Russian, and Tatar colleagues.”
My Blossomed Potted Plant
by Jennifer Saparzadeh,
“My blossomed potted plant/ My moonlit balcony / From you I am alone / Fish out of its home.”
Going Home
by Leena Aboutaleb,
de / construct, literature into spaces, scrawled on finger/bones, between guest beds, tore through across, bloodstained streets
Hypothetical Body Equation (with Cats)
by Nour Kamel,
I went and made you, because everything where I was was too much.
The Sound Of
by Lizzy Vartanian Collier,
Exhibition analyses how sound constructs social identity and space.
Creativity and Imagination
by Priyal Thakkar
We are one of 30 global youth platform partners in the launch of an initiative by @ChimeForChange and @weareirregular to explore gender and our fluid future. In this piece from Irregular Report’s second issue, Priyal ruminates on her poetry and creativity, how this informs her activism and vice versa, and why it's so important to be creative.
