Matchbox August - 2026
This edition of Matchbox is a collection of stories, reviews, and poetry centring on dissent and displacement.
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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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

Matchbox - August 2026
This edition of Matchbox is a collection of stories, reviews, and poetry centring on dissent and displacement.
Discover & Read
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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
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