To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.
As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other.
We honor her memory and oppose the war.
Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame.
Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective
Zack Polanski
Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56
The French-Iranian 'died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,' people close to her said.
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How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net is a hybrid lyric-essay that moves between elegy, translation, & ecological witness, finding its gravitational centre in a sketch by Barrie Cooke of two figures hauling a pike from a boat.
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re:verb 2026 - a festival of contemporary poetry & the verbal arts (Director: Christodoulos Makris)
I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.
