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Dissent Dispatch - May
Born into an “overheated era” of overlapping crises, Gen Z uses digital activism to challenge a world they did not create but must navigate.
The Matchbox - May '26
This issue is dedicated to the memory of Bashir Badr and Shereen Ratnagar.
Issue 14: WITNESS
Witness is not only a theme for Usawa, but also an act of literary practice, an ethic of shared attention between the author, editor, and the reader. This issue is not complete until you read it and allow it to stay close to you.
Matchbox - May '26
This issue is dedicated to the memory of Bashir Badr and Shereen Ratnagar.
Editor's Picks
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An intimate exploration of grief, language, and technology’s reshaping of selfhood...
Read MorePoems of memory, love, and belonging—where ancestry, food, and nature entwine...
Read MoreKhalid Jawed on death, disgust, and the haunting truths of life...
Read MoreAs I leafed through Kin, an anthology of poetry, prose, and art by women from Romani,......
Read MoreThe tarmac appeared to melt under the harsh sun. It was well past noon. Abdul had......
Read MoreOn Our Mind
Khalid Jawed on death, disgust, and the haunting truths of life...
Read MoreWith Many Hopes With books and with a pen, I dreamed to read and build my......
Read MoreWhy did beef and pork become part of the diet of only these communities? As per......
Read MoreHe was thinking of a sensory tool that could turn Descartes on his head. Microbiologists had......
Read More“I have always thought of myself as a detective”, said economic historian Claudia Goldin in an......
Read MoreDiscover & Read
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Care, Kinship & Domestic Worlds
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Decolonial & Global Feminism
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Desire, Love & Inner Life
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Gender, Queer & Embodied Lives
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Memory, Story & Movement
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Cities, Space & Everyday Life
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Digital Futures, Media & Education
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Land, Bodies & Ecofeminism
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