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  • Matchbox August - 2026

    This edition of Matchbox is a collection of stories, reviews, and poetry centring on dissent and displacement.

  • Reclaiming Banned Books

    Banned Book Club

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    Issue 15

    Even when erased, an act of dissent leaves a palimpsest. Those who come after do not begin from nothing; they write into those faint but indelible traces. Every authoritarian project shrinks collective imagination through fear; every act of dissent enlarges it. We refuse to accept fear as the price of citizenship

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Jul '26

Issue 15: Refuse

Even when erased, an act of dissent leaves a palimpsest. Those who come after do not begin from nothing; they write into those faint but indelible traces. Every authoritarian project shrinks collective imagination through fear; every act of dissent enlarges it. We refuse to accept fear as the price of citizenship

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August '26

Matchbox - August 2026

This edition of Matchbox is a collection of stories, reviews, and poetry centring on dissent and displacement.

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Banned Book Club

Reclaiming Banned Books

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Care, Kinship & Domestic Worlds

02

Decolonial & Global Feminism

03

Desire, Love & Inner Life

04

Gender, Queer & Embodied Lives

05

Memory, Story & Movement

06

Cities, Space & Everyday Life

07

Digital Futures, Media & Education

08

Land, Bodies & Ecofeminism

09

Power, Borders & Exclusions

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