Life over Lithium
By Jessica Ng
Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth
Nadir Bouhmouch’s breathtaking documentary film Amussu (2019), exemplary of "art from below," breathes life into a counter-archive of Amazigh tradition and immotalizes Imider commune's ongoing anti-extractivist struggles.
Why do I keep talking about memories?
Summer falls, and I peel open the scab
I’ve chosen not to open until now.
Oil kills everything—the land, the mangrove,
the water bodies and the creek.
A look at the artwork by Connie Resch and Rosanna Morris in the magazine's Spring 2022 issue.
The global pandemic brought light to deep racial disparities, income inequalities, healthcare shortages, and a climate crisis that’s well underway. So, is there room to care about the darkness of prisons?