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On Columbia University’s campus, a woman with a keffiyeh around her neck stands before a camera, while encircled by journalists holding microphones.

(Features)

The Risky Audacity of Watermelon Pictures

BY BEDATRI DATTA CHOUDHURY

A green illustration of a tulip.

(From the Editor)

Letter From The Editor

BY HEIDI SAMAN

Illustration of a young girl holding a single long flower in her hands. Her hair is blowing and her clothing is flowing as well.

(Essays)

The Tension of Marjane Satrapi’s Legacy

BY ROYA RASTEGAR

Black-and-white film still of the artist Simone Leigh in a black pinafore over a white blouse crouching low, holding a stick lit with fire to the base of one of her life-sized raffia-skirted sculptures.

(Essays)

A Frame That Changed My Life

BY KEESEAN MOORE

Black-and-white film still of a stern-looking man in a dark formal suit with a white collar and a ribbon pinned to his chest, standing in front of a large dark circle on a pale wall. Two uniformed officers stand on either side of him.

(Reviews)

I Refuse to Be Killed by Something That’s Invisible

BY RUTH GEBREYESUS

Portrait of Allison Janae Hamilton, a Black woman with full, dark natural hair, wearing a brown turtleneck and a thin chain necklace. She rests one hand against her jaw, showing a ring and a forearm tattoo, and looks at the camera with a steady expression.

(Studio Visit)

Studio Visit : Allison Janae Hamilton

BY AKILI Z. DAVIS

Illustration of a group of South Asian people: a middle-aged man with a moustache (center), an older man, a woman resting a hand on her chin, a man in a hard hat, a young man drawing on a board, a bearded man in a checked shirt.

(Features)

Arundhati Roy’s Cinema of Youthful Rebellion

BY MEGHANA KANDLUR

Protesters wearing identical paper face masks hold signs in Tagalog and English demanding the surfacing of Jonas Burgos

(Features)

Disappeared by the State

BY JULIANA FELICIANO REYES

A painting by Tessa Mars features a figure with a bowed head, in a blue head covering, maroon top and dark skirt, stands in white-colored water.

(Essays)

Create Dangerously: Remembering Black Bodies in Motion

BY MICHÈLE STEPHENSON

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