Issue 003 of The Key has landed.
We’ve got so much to share with you this week:
🔑 The first look at Molly Crabapple’s epic social history of the anti-Zionist Jewish Labour Bund, eleven years in the making.
🔑 A profile of one of the most innovative Palestinian rappers working today, Haykal. 1/2
Is AI Islamophobic?
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Book club discussion on "The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World" by Vicky Osterweil @vickyacab.bsky.social and moderated by Sherry Zane. Buy the book @haymarketbooks.org
Join the live on Sunday, May 31 at 1pm EST on YouTube
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Watch Ainehi Edoro's excellent interview about her new book, FOREST IMAGINARIES: HOW AFRICAN NOVELS THINK with Radical Books Collective. tinyurl.com/5cnr4u6p @radicalbooks.bsky.social @brittlepaper.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
TODAY -- Even as Sudan enters the 4th year of devastating war, media coverage remains abysmal. We speak to two Sudanese journalists, Ism'ail Kushkush and Raghdan Orsud, about why the deadliest conflict in the world has been willfully ignored.
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TODAY -- Even as Sudan enters the 4th year of devastating war, media coverage remains abysmal. We speak to two Sudanese journalists, Ism'ail Kushkush and Raghdan Orsud, about why the deadliest conflict in the world has been willfully ignored.
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“We're in a time of grotesque imperial wars. We have to keep complaining and protesting.” - Sara Ahmed
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Whats wrong with Disney? Vicky Osterweil @vickyacab.bsky.social & Sherry Zane in a brilliant conversation about Osterweil’s book The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World @haymarketbooks.org Watch here!
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Everywhere we turn, a ruin.
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"The new Michael Jackson biopic turns a politically conscious Black artist into a raceless fantasy figure, erasing the civil rights struggles, global solidarities, and histories that shaped him." -- Sherry Zane for
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This is a story about the day I met a Somali girl named Ifrah and she was very oppressed. By Bhakti Shringarpure.
Join our live book discussion on Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think by Ainehi Edoro. Moderated by Bhakti Shringarpure. About the book Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings, symbols, or remnants of a premodern past. Yet many African novelists have turned to the forest to experiment with worldbuilding and to imagine new futures. This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to reinvent the novel’s formal, aesthetic, and political possibilities. About the author Ainehi Edoro is a Nigerian literary scholar who focuses on African literature and digital culture. She is the founding editor of Brittle Paper, a leading platform for African literary culture, and faculty of English and African cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Buy the book here: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/forest-imaginaries/9780231565073/
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Bhakti Shringarpure speaks with writer, scholar and activist Sara Ahmed about her book NO! The Art and Activism of Complaining for the Radical Futures podcast.
"The house murdered is also mass murder," writes Mahmoud Darwish. The poem lends us words as Israel burns through the 5000-year old city of Tyre in Lebanon. By Bhakti Shringarpure.
The new Michael Jackson biopic turns a politically conscious Black artist into a raceless fantasy figure, erasing the civil rights struggles, global solidarities, and histories that shaped him.
