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i just saw this lol. Jake and i both decided to show a little skin

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[Excerpt] Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide • Protean Magazine This excerpt is drawn from Mousa Alsadah’s foreword to the collected writings of Wasim Said—a Gaza survivor who, writing as he fled the killing, recorded stories of unthinkable horror and suffering. S...

An excerpt of Mousa Alsadah’s foreword to the collected writings of Wasim Said, forthcoming from 1804 Books. Said is a Gazan survivor who, writing as he fled the killing, recorded stories of suffering and terror amidst "generosity, selflessness, truth[.]"

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ah i lived there 2015-2017

very interesting... can't recall seeing a burnt-out lot, but i used to live at the intersection of Dwight and Piedmont a block from People's Park, and have been down Telegraph many many times.

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an elegantly argued review (which comes as no surprise, as the author is Charlotte Rosen) on a completely fascinating and morally appalling history.

this spree of burning people to death for profit is one of the more grotesque indictments of capital's perverse incentives.

Sympathy for the Jersey Devil • Protean Magazine This Halloween, Kim Kelly shares stories of where she grew up—New Jersey's unique Pine Barrens—and of its mythical occupant, the Jersey Devil. The often-isolated people of the Barrens have a deep fond...

An awesome read to begin September. 🍁👻 @kimkelly.bsky.social

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Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...

“[A] blueprint for mass deportation, marketed as development.”

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Vienna’s Model Shows the Government Really Can Guarantee Housing for All A new report documents the wild and likely replicable success of Vienna’s public housing plan.

my latest is on the Climate and Community Institute report that examined the relative triumph of Vienna's dual-modality social housing: state-owned and "limited-profit" housing furnishes highly desirable multi-income units at the lowest rent of any major city in Europe.

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Incendiary Schemes • Protean Magazine Charlotte Rosen reviews Bench Ansfield's new book, Born in Flames—a stunning and revelatory analysis of the systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes that were perpetrated by landlords and insu...

Charlotte E. Rosen reviews Bench Ansfield's new book "Born in Flames"—a revelatory historical analysis of the systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes perpetrated by landlords and insurance companies in the Bronx of the 1970s.

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BREAKING: Callow Opportunist Reads Room

this interview contains a lovely and thoughtful set of reflections on writing, injustice, trees, the land, and a lot more. Lupita Limón Corrales is a talented poet who has previously contributed to Protean; i highly recommend her excellent 2021 piece here: proteanmag.com/2021/06/24/t...

Love Spells, Dying Empires: A Conversation with Lupita Limón Corrales • Protean Magazine Mallika Singh interviews poet and organizer Lupita Limón Corrales, whose new collection, ESTA BOCA ES MÍA, has now been published by nueoi press. Corrales's poems, Singh writes, are "a testament to th...

Mallika Singh interviews poet and organizer Lupita Limón Corrales, whose new collection, ESTA BOCA ES MÍA, has now been published by nueoi press. Corrales’s poems, Singh writes, are “a testament to the dissolution of self, to the collective voice.”

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Israel-Gaza War - Committee to Protect Journalists Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that CPJ has ever documented. Palestinian journalists are being threatened, directly targeted and murdere...

"Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that the Committee to Protect Journalists has ever documented." cpj.org/full-coverag...

Palestinian Youth Movement Vows to Make Genocide Support Too Costly for Maersk Global activists aim to halt the Gaza genocide by interrupting the flow of arms to Israel.

latest piece: on the successful campaign of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) to force logistics giant Maersk to give up shipping certain Israeli goods linked to illegal settlement and genocide. a major win and organizing lesson on pressure points in the arms trade:

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to rest peacefully after a life beautifully and brilliantly spent, this i wish for Malcolm Margolin, founder of Heyday Books, someone i knew, respected, and loved

naturally. keep em comin

it's certainly a piece that has stayed with me, and has helped enrich the way i engage with visual art

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this is a genuinely exquisite piece; i hope you'll read it now that it's online. Kate is comprehensive on Mihelič's fascinating life and work, while using them as a prism to illuminate a dialectic: how life and grief are infused in art, and how art in turn inflects our ways of seeing and our lives.

Before the After • Protean Magazine Kate Wagner's essay in Protean: Issue V explores the art and life of the Yugoslavian painter France Micheli , who was an interpreter of nature, ritual, and, in many ways, an interrogator of death. His...

wrote last year (it’s finally online) about my favorite artist, the Yugoslav painter France Mihelič for @proteanmag.com proteanmag.com/2025/07/25/b...

Before the After • Protean Magazine Kate Wagner's essay in Protean: Issue V explores the art and life of the Yugoslavian painter France Micheli , who was an interpreter of nature, ritual, and, in many ways, an interrogator of death. His...

From Issue V: Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell.bsky.social) on the art and life of Yugoslavian painter France Michelič, known for his depictions of folk deity Kurent. Stamped by the 20th century's trials, he became a searching interpreter of nature, ritual, and death.

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Print submissions for Protean Magazine: Issue VI are now open.

Send us your most affecting poems, or your best essay pitches and/or drafts—we want to read your incisive, rigorous, lyrical critiques of American decay, social pathology, and imperial decline.

Guidelines: proteanmag.com/submissions

A Philosophy of Shame: A Conversation with Frédéric Gros • Protean Magazine Neda Tehrani interviews philosopher Frédéric Gros about his new book A Philosophy of Shame (Verso Books) and the uses and misuses of this "revolutionary emotion."

"You can see that what I am denouncing is the idea of comfortable certainties and soothing convictions. Truth should not give us rest from the search for truth but should stimulate it. Stupidity is not quite the same as error and ignorance."

–Frédéric Gros

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Farewell to The Pink House—depicted here in a piece by 20th Century Collages that appears in Protean Issue IV.

Read Luke's Issue IV story, "Newburyport, MA": proteanmag.com/2023/07/31/n...

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“it ultimately matters little whether violence is meted out by the police, the hospital, or both working in concert. Then, as now, the challenge is in building the political consciousness and systems of care necessary to move towards a healthier social order.”

@oksanamir.bsky.social and I have a new piece up on Protean Magazine where we explore how the current repression of pro-Palestinian activists echoes the First Red Scare.