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All articles filed in past futures

past futuresJuly 31, 2019August 27, 2019

When Utopia Becomes Tangible

No one on the receiving end of harassment or assault should have to feel that they are the ones who have to leave an event, or any event where a harasser is present, or that they are being made to leave literary circles all together and for good.

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past futuresJuly 31, 2019August 27, 2019

Editorial: past futures

The four contributions in this issue range from concrete steps to achieve a utopia without sexual harassment and assault, to dystopian visions that are anchored in the more nightmarish aspects of our present, to reflections on how past ideologies have an impact on our present.

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past futuresJuly 31, 2019August 27, 2019

Moth Eyes

My grandmother does not remember how she got here. She thinks she might have fallen from a violently rocking house. The house flew past rubber plantations, raging fires, massacres; horrifying scenes like that.

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past futuresJuly 31, 2019August 27, 2019

Faces Afraid of the Mirror

Like every other country, this one is known for its beautiful sights. With its bombed buildings, destroyed museums, imprisoned artists, mass graves and nonstop shelling, it looks particularly heavenly.

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past futuresJuly 31, 2019August 27, 2019

Living History: a Conversation with Kapka Kassabova

‘Often, we the natives of the Balkans or the Middle East, with our extraordinarily polyphonic histories and hurts, are narrated by others – usually others from the dominant colonising cultures.’

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