Disposables and visual diarrhee

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Syrian boy's father tells of drowning

The father of a three-year-old Syrian boy found drowned on a beach in Turkey tells the BBC of the family's fatal voyage trying to reach Europe.

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The EU’s deal with Libya is sentencing refugees to death | Sally Hayden

Any hope that Libya might be a safe haven has gone, says Sally Hayden, a journalist focusing on migration

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The Camera as a Portal

Shani Jamila, Larry Ossei-Mensah, and Teju Cole discuss travel, mobility, and the meaning of images.

Cole: What’s particularly interesting to me is the impossibility of being a neutral black traveler. I think what we have to offer to history, historiography, to writing, to photography is our inherent subjectivity. If a lot of heteronormative white patriarchy is predicated on an impossible neutrality, we’re present to give light to that. [...]

We know that we cannot leave behind our subjectivity, nor the subjectivity of our interlocutors, because we’re always already subjective. That’s what it means to be black in this country, to be in a position that isn’t the mainstream, and then that inflects every travel experience.

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The way lives touch touch and spring apart The pulse synaptic local, but its stretch electric -- as when cities lose themselves in velvet under winking planes, binding black hostilities with gold chains.

Anne stevensons

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Stormzy stormzing

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Indian man carves road through hills so children can attend school

Jalandhar Nayak used a chisel, hoe and pickaxe to dig five-mile route, with officials planning to compensate him for his efforts

Creative will and necessity

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Opinion: Canada's long history of racism

Our children are taught about the goodliness of the Underground Railroad, but never an honest history of our first public schools or black migration. That there are racist place names in Quebec is …

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Delirium music

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DREW JARRETT | GRACE BOL | VIOLET BOOK | SPRING /SUMMER 2016

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Black palestinians defending their land in the 1930’s

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On view April 6–May 9, 2016 Opening reception Sunday, April 10 (3–6PM)

Breaking from the biographical narratives that entwined his earlier work, Delaney Allen’s fifth solo exhibition at Nationale, A R T I F A C T, revels in fabrication. The collection of new photographs and objects on view read like the exoticized findings of an anthropological survey. However, the works also remain firmly tethered to the artist’s obvious structural manipulations and singular imagination. Allen, in this manner, straddles the seemingly oppositional roles of both the discoverer and the other.

Within this dichotomy, Allen favors abstraction and disguise to further blur the lines between fact and fiction. His landscapes immediately recall such familiar locales as the California desert or the Pacific Northwest rainforest. However, his use of dramatic lighting and tight compositions question such easy readings by casting an otherworldly effect upon the familiar. The faces of his subjects are similarly hidden or blacked out. Within his eerie settings, they appear like aliens caught by chance upon the camera’s lens. Allen’s portraits meanwhile function as evidence of a new culture for which we do not yet understand the visual codes. Inspired by art historical portraiture, his subjects often assume a seated position of power while their colorful costumes hint at ceremonial importance. As with every work displayed, Allen avoids the naturalistic within these photographs, understanding that the fragmentary and the mystical best embody a spirit.

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The Nauru files: cache of 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention

Exclusive: The largest cache of documents to be leaked from within Australia’s asylum seeker detention regime details assaults, sexual assaults and self-harm

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"Self-care and healing and attention to the body and the spiritual dimension—all of this is now a part of radical social justice struggles."

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An Egyptian activist Shaimaa El Sabbagh’ been shot dead by the police, down town, Cairo on Saturday. while her husband trying to hold her before falling down. P.s the husband had been arrested.

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The saddest picture in the world

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30th birthday vibes insta: Gwavah

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You will enter an oasis

By Felicity Hammond