Walidah Imarisha (Ed.): Octavia's Brood photographer

Walidah Imarisha (Ed.): Octavia's Brood photographerAK Press, 2015, Softcover, 285 pages, 20 14 cm Contributions by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu Jamal, Sheree Rene Thomas Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organisers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Maree Brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the

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with an inquisitive and searching voice stretched over one long

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Lorna Simpson

philosopher Elsa Dorlin looks across the global history of the left—from slave revolts to the knitting women of the French Revolution and British suffragists’ training in ju-jitsu

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David Wittinghofer

the book highlights some of the success stories that offer models for the future

In order to respond critically to these different pitfalls

the catalogue contains new essays on the influence and reception of Abdoh’s works in theater

Peter Doig's paintings have a tendency to disorientate us