Warsan Shire: Conversations About Home
When I meet others like me I recognise the longing, the missing, the memory of ash on their faces. No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.
May 4, 2025 · 14 Comments
Richard Hoffman: Refugee
A man carries his door,
the door of his house,
because when the war is over
he is going home
April 21, 2022 · 8 Comments
Richard Hoffman: The Road
the groves and orchards
poisoned, fathers and brothers tortured,
hope abandoned with the other heavy furniture
it isn’t much of a road, the future
March 31, 2022 · Leave a comment
Kenny Stancil: US Bombed Somalia Amid Russian Invasion of Ukraine
“You do not, in fact, have to choose between American and Russian imperialisms,” wrote one anti-war reporter. “The correct choice is to detest and resist both.”
February 28, 2022 · Leave a comment
Video: Godka Cirka (A Hole in the Sky)
Alifa has reached the age when girls in her village undergo a ritual cutting she fears.
March 7, 2020 · Leave a comment
Warsan Shire: Home
no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark
December 21, 2019 · 4 Comments
