Weekly Round Up: Guava Island, A Black Hole Pic, and Fire in Notre Dame
Assange arrested On Thursday, April 11, WikiLeaks founder and director Julian Assange was arrested by British authorities at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Assange had been escaping extradition to Sweden and the US since 2012 under Ecuadorian protection at the embassy. However, Ecuador revoked As
Weekly Round Up: Coronation Street, The Bezos Divorce and the Sultan of Brunei Petition
Petition to revoke Sultan of Brunei’s honorary Oxford degree A petition calling on the University of Oxford to rescind the honorary degree granted to the Sultan of Brunei has reached over 56,000 signatures. The petition was set up by Oxford alum Ellie Dibben after the University initially refuse
Weekly Round Up: Agnes Varda, the Apple Card, and the end of Broad City
Agnes Varda French New Wave director Agnes Varda has died this week. It would be impossible to summarise her influence and career in this round up, but you can get a taste of her talent in this clip, and take read of her obituary in The Guardian here. – Antonio Brunei Queer Death Penalty The
Sex vs. Books
Editor’s Note: this piece has been kicking around The ISIS archives since 1983. I was going to write something myself, but I couldn’t be bothered. Then I found this in the archives, and given that it already has my name on it, I was going to pass it off as my own work. So I […]
Poetry
Well I went. They speak on issues that are mine. They don’t realise it though. “Council housing” “The working class” That’s me! I’m here. Hello? They served me octopus terrine! Served. To me? And I’d never had terrine. And I didn’t
Weekly Roundup: Us, New Zealand’s Weapons Ban and Emilia Clarke’s Big Reveal
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern praised as New Zealand bans all military style weapons Opinion pieces praising Jacinda Ardern’s leadership as exemplary have cropped up a plenty in the last week. Her response in the wake of the Christchurch shooting has been remarkably human, emotional and stead
Shanghainese
I’ll hear a string of sounds – slick fricatives, ballooning rounded vowels, shreds of distantly familiar tones. It’s a sequence of mismatched notes, sewn together by the timbre of my grandma’s voice. She’ll look at me as she speaks, as if trying to impart meaning, to imprint in the air the
From Africa to the Amazon
In an indigenous community in Northern Brazil, I sat with a group of community leaders in a wooden-clad room. I was taking part in a project with Vaga Lume (‘firefly’ in Portuguese), an NGO that works to improve education in roughly a hundred communities in the Brazilian Amazon. In the community
Poetry
I was Lord of a country no one cared for. The Queen fucked men for money, and the King dug graves. At luncheon, he played Death with his favourite courtiers, kissing them once on the forehead and then declaring them knaves – he buried them living. Nobody cared. A good King kills one man for [&