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@jacobrosenberg.bsky.socialReposted by @equatormag.bsky.socialFascinating to think that a post from a student in Boston started mass protests in India (and yet barely makes headlines in the US) www.equator.org/articles/coc...
@jacobkushner.bsky.socialReposted by @equatormag.bsky.social“If we can have arguments like this,” said a friend who fled Haiti in 2024, “it means we’re still alive.” Pooja Bhatia for @equatormag.bsky.social on Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, where I used to file my stories. www.equator.org/articles/hot... @bhatiap.bsky.social
@paulclammer.bsky.socialReposted by @equatormag.bsky.socialThis extraordinary essay by @bhatiap.bsky.social for @equatormag.bsky.social on Haiti and the storied Oloffson Hotel is the best thing I've read in ages. Just amazing writing. www.equator.org/articles/hot...
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@bhatiap.bsky.socialReposted by @equatormag.bsky.socialI was thrilled to write about one of the best places in the world for one of the best magazines in the world. @equatormag.bsky.social
cc: Haiti-heads, Graham Greene lovers, New Wave music fans, anyone who's danced till dawn
@charliearchy.bsky.socialReposted by @equatormag.bsky.social"I believe the contemporary far right is a cross-class phenomenon ... a movement that brings together an underclass that has given up waiting on the promises of modernisation ... and an elite who no longer even pretends those promises are on offer." www.equator.org/articles/bra...
@martindbbrown.bsky.socialReposted by @equatormag.bsky.socialHadn't realised it had burnt down, once enjoyed drinks on the veranda, back in the days of Baby Doc.
@equatormag.bsky.social“Moun fèt pou mouri,” as the Haitian saying goes, People are born to die. But for generation upon generation the Oloffson died to be reborn.
@equatormag.bsky.social”As the fog of crisis settled on the capital, the Oloffson sometimes seemed like a beacon, pointing towards the future, its very existence promising to make good on the popular post-quake motto: ‘Haiti will not perish’."
@bhatiap.bsky.social recounts the storied history of the Hotel Oloffson
@keeganleech.co.zaReposted by @equatormag.bsky.socialCould not sign up faster for @equatormag.bsky.social. Didn't know they existed before reading @literaryhub.bsky.social's glowing praise in their #LitMagWeek coverage, but this is MY JAM.
@rafiamahli.comReposted by @equatormag.bsky.social"We should start talking now about a list of crimes so long and so perverse that – as in the years following the Nazi Holocaust – humanity will require decades to tally them."
I have been waiting for someone to write this piece. Bravo to @equatormag.bsky.social for publishing this.
@bluejoos.bsky.socialReposted by @equatormag.bsky.socialDit is al bijna een jaar geleden geschreven maar zó goed en zó actueel. Lees het.
@casmudde.bsky.socialReposted by @equatormag.bsky.socialWant to better understand the "far right" in Brazil 🇧🇷? Read this excellent interview with Rodrigo Nunes in @equatormag.bsky.social
@jeffreywinters.bsky.socialReposted by @equatormag.bsky.social“When politics is colonised by the attention economy, then public discourse becomes a constantly shifting sea of outrage. Today, this; tomorrow, that. It is a state of affairs entirely inimical to emancipatory politics….”
This from @equatormag.bsky.social is an X-ray of the global political crisis.
@lalehkhalili.bsky.socialReposted by @equatormag.bsky.socialThis analysis of the far right in Brasil is spot on - and to me it also describes the politics of ressentiment in the UK and the US as well. It is just that in these two countries, it is targeted at migrants.
@equatormag.bsky.socialSoysal was jailed in Ankara’s Mamak prison for nine months. Her prison diaries recount how the absurd became macabre, how the military’s persistent effort to annihilate the left would leave its survivors shredded and decaying.
www.equator.org/articles/the...
@equatormag.bsky.socialOne of Turkey's great chroniclers of the Cold War, the novelist Sevgi Soysal was among the thousands of leftists arrested after the 1971 coup. Her incredible prison diaries are now being published in English for the first time.
@robrubsam.bsky.socialReposted by @equatormag.bsky.social"Genocide is not just the destruction of a people, it is also the obliteration of that people’s store of memories and, with it, the destruction of their ability to see themselves historically." www.equator.org/articles/dus...
@ritodhi.bsky.socialReposted by @equatormag.bsky.social“Genocide is not just the destruction of a people, it is also the obliteration of that people’s store of #memories and, with it, the destruction of their ability to see themselves #historically”
@rossac.bsky.socialReposted by @equatormag.bsky.socialPlease subscribe to Equator Magazine. I insist.
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From the Editors
The most influential journals are rarely the products of tranquil times. Their significance is often measured by their ability to confront historical rupture, rather than the length of their run. In 1944, as the violence of world wor scaled toward atomic annihilation, Dwight Macdonald founded his radical journal, Politics, to survey the wreck age. A year later, Les Temps Modernes rose from the ruins of occupied France to forge the twin languages of existentialism and anticolonialism.
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Equator was not founded to issue political blue-prints, but to be a home for this reclamation of the future to begin. In these early days of an era whose outcome no one can predict, we want to capsize dogmes and tell new stories. Our aim is to cultivate a fresh canon of think-ers who can reveal the world in unfamiliar ways, yield-ing vocabularies capable of comprehending new political horizons and to advocate a renewed cosmopolitanism. In a globalised world, cosmopolitanism has been degraded by association with Davos elites and obscene wealth. The cosmopolitanism we pursue is different. We do not want, in Aimé Césaire's phrase, to become lost in a disembodied universalism, but to embrace instead what he called "a universal rich with all that is particular". Our ambition is to make Equator a living experiment in this philosophy: one that does not flatten differences into a bland global citizenship, but seeks instead the shock of recognition that comes when people separated by geography encounter one another's entangled histories and experiences and find, unexpectedly, that they recog-nise themselves.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:dznocaybitnm7bcttrw4z3kv/bafkreiaa3w676u4fsy4qscwrsp7trpdcas4vjpmmqwgytdycvkfzxf3f4e@jpeg)
