“Inside the first issue is a poster of the Equator manifesto, which begins with the headline: ‘The end of the West is not the end of the world.’ The 11 editors are based in New York and London, as well as Nairobi, Kenya, and Lahore.”
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Equator is live. Read about our mission and our first pieces, which include works of reportage, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from around the world:
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We launched a (free) newsletter on substack! An occasion to feature shorter, timelier, more casual content: interviews, as-told-to’s, diaries, recommendations, pictures, moving pictures, mixtapes, listings of Bidounish happenings: https://t.co/O7yzdDdVJY JOIN US
Read “The Shit,” an excerpt from Youssef Rakha’s riotous new novel “The Dissenters,” with an afterword by @zaintkhalid and illustration by Ebecho Muslimova: https://t.co/MlJjv36h7r
Caroline Blackwood was the author of wit-drenched books about the wages of class, women’s inhumanity to women, bitchiness, greed, abjection, family, monsters. But motherhood as original sin was her most persistent theme. https://t.co/RVHJeeo63C
I wrote this when I was really young, so I hesitate to share it. But I think it may be a helpful introduction for people who have never read Gary or have only read the novels but not the essays, etc. He was a great writer and an irreplaceable person https://t.co/hf5tCvt03S
“We are so horrified by what we witnessed. It haunts us in our dreams.”
Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan @Tanyaalih spent two weeks in Gaza earlier this year.
Now, she speaking out at the Democratic National Convention about what she saw and how she believes US policy must change.
“I believe in the power and importance of language. But what is happening is not primarily about language.”
Honoured to have illustrated this fierce and lucid essay by Isabella Hammad. https://t.co/7sw0tyQI1w
One of the rare genuine pleasures of the recent past has been Wayne Koestenbaum’s new book. I wrote briefly about it and him for @4_columns: https://t.co/ckqoJmTXrs