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In this wide-ranging interview, Laleh Khalili (@lalehkhalili.bsky.social) speaks with Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos.bsky.social) about her new book, "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism"—on lithium mining, prospects for a just climate transition, and more.
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Extractive Frontiers: An Interview With Thea Riofrancos • Protean Magazine
In this extensive, wide ranging interview, Laleh Khalili speaks with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, the political economy of lithium mining, the poss...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In this wide-ranging interview, Laleh Khalili (@lalehkhalili.bsky.social) speaks with Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos.bsky.social) about her new book, "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism"—on lithium mining, prospects for a just climate transition, and more.
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Poet Chris Campanioni's "we never hear about the fathers of birds" explores the contradictory ways the self is formed, concluding that "the rich // confusion between a thing & / I arrives always / through violence."
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Poet Chris Campanioni's "we never hear about the fathers of birds" explores the contradictory ways the self is formed, concluding that "the rich // confusion between a thing & / I arrives always / thr...
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December 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Now you can hear the words, too 🎶⚡️ https://proteanmag.com/2025/12/07/we-never-hear-about-the-fathers-of-birds/ @proteanmag.com
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On the drive back I had to stop for a couple of school buses to let all the kids get off to cross the street to get home. Bopping around with their backpacks on. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
We Had it Coming [EXCERPTS] • Protean Magazine
Three new short stories by Luke O'Neil—"The rules," "How to live," and "Something that was once potentially good"—are excerpted here from his new book of stories, We Had it Coming, out from OR Books.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
On the drive back I had to stop for a couple of school buses to let all the kids get off to cross the street to get home. Bopping around with their backpacks on. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...
"'Solidarity' contains analysis of the dire contemporary situation for children, the author’s reflections on raising a non-binary child in circumstances of fear and threat, [and a look at] how the right weaponizes ideas of 'the child' in the name of parental rights."
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Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Children, out this month from Haymarket Books.Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Ch...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"'Solidarity' contains analysis of the dire contemporary situation for children, the author’s reflections on raising a non-binary child in circumstances of fear and threat, [and a look at] how the right weaponizes ideas of 'the child' in the name of parental rights."
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In "Live Action Role Play," poet Christopher Blackman considers the linkages among LARPing, imperial decay, and the splendor of a full moon.
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In "Live Action Role Play," poet Christopher Blackman considers the linkages among LARPing, imperial decay, and the splendor of a full moon.
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December 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
In "Live Action Role Play," poet Christopher Blackman considers the linkages among LARPing, imperial decay, and the splendor of a full moon.
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Andrew Holter interviews Mitchell Abidor on his new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary (@plutopress.bsky.social). "We in the Anglophone world have misunderstood some pretty important things about Serge"—including, Abidor claims, his late-life reactionary turn.
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Victor Serge, Turncoat? • Protean Magazine
Andrew Holter interviews Mitchell Abidor on Abidor's new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, out from Pluto Press. "It seems like we in the English-speaking world, at least, have misunderstood s...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Andrew Holter interviews Mitchell Abidor on his new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary (@plutopress.bsky.social). "We in the Anglophone world have misunderstood some pretty important things about Serge"—including, Abidor claims, his late-life reactionary turn.
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saw the term "Richardsonism" on the TL; if you want to read something actually useful about the phenomena of H*ather C*x R*chardson, may I suggest (in @proteanmag.com): proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...
The End of Resistance History • Protean Magazine
As the Biden administration is swept into the dustbin, Charlotte Rosen wonders: what was the liberal Hashtag-Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And, as a product of the first Trump term, what did commentato...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
saw the term "Richardsonism" on the TL; if you want to read something actually useful about the phenomena of H*ather C*x R*chardson, may I suggest (in @proteanmag.com): proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...
"The colonial machine operates in a frantic, linear time. It is the time of instant reaction, quick escalation, the fatal bullet. It is impatient because it is insecure, convinced its existence can only be secured by shattering the worlds of others."
– Bayan Haddad
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– Bayan Haddad
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On World-Building: Lessons From a Martyred Teacher • Protean Magazine
Bayan Haddad once taught literature to Oudeh Hathaleen, who would become a teacher himself, as well as Palestinian community advocate and consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. In ...
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December 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"The colonial machine operates in a frantic, linear time. It is the time of instant reaction, quick escalation, the fatal bullet. It is impatient because it is insecure, convinced its existence can only be secured by shattering the worlds of others."
– Bayan Haddad
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– Bayan Haddad
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From Mousa Alsadah's forward to 'Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide' by Wasim Said
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From Mousa Alsadah's forward to 'Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide' by Wasim Said
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VIDEO: The team behind @proteanmag.com (@jakeromm.bsky.social, @multiwhirl.bsky.social, @stevanzetti.bsky.social, and @walletcheck.bsky.social) visits our offices in New York City and makes their way through the Verso Archive, sharing some of the titles that have influenced their work.
December 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
VIDEO: The team behind @proteanmag.com (@jakeromm.bsky.social, @multiwhirl.bsky.social, @stevanzetti.bsky.social, and @walletcheck.bsky.social) visits our offices in New York City and makes their way through the Verso Archive, sharing some of the titles that have influenced their work.
Poet Ahmad Ibsais’s “Threadbare in Rafah” narrates the steadfastness of Palestinian children against the unimaginable terrors of Israel’s genocide.
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Poet Ahmad Ibsais's "Threadbare in Rafah" narrates the steadfastness of Palestinian children against the unimaginable terrors of Israel's genocide.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Poet Ahmad Ibsais’s “Threadbare in Rafah” narrates the steadfastness of Palestinian children against the unimaginable terrors of Israel’s genocide.
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Bayan Haddad (@BayanHaddad) remembers her former student Oudeh Hathaleen—a Palestinian teacher, father, and community leader, murdered by an Israeli settler. Haddad testifies against the inhuman colonial violence that was the antithesis of Oudeh's spirit.
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On World-Building: Lessons From a Martyred Teacher • Protean Magazine
Bayan Haddad once taught literature to Oudeh Hathaleen, who would become a teacher himself, as well as Palestinian community advocate and consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. In ...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Bayan Haddad (@BayanHaddad) remembers her former student Oudeh Hathaleen—a Palestinian teacher, father, and community leader, murdered by an Israeli settler. Haddad testifies against the inhuman colonial violence that was the antithesis of Oudeh's spirit.
proteanmag.com/2025/12/08/o...
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Bayan Haddad (@BayanHaddad) remembers her former student Oudeh Hathaleen—a Palestinian teacher, father, and community leader, murdered by an Israeli settler. Haddad testifies against the inhuman colonial violence that was the antithesis of Oudeh's spirit.
proteanmag.com/2025/12/08/o...
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On World-Building: Lessons From a Martyred Teacher • Protean Magazine
Bayan Haddad once taught literature to Oudeh Hathaleen, who would become a teacher himself, as well as Palestinian community advocate and consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. In ...
proteanmag.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Bayan Haddad (@BayanHaddad) remembers her former student Oudeh Hathaleen—a Palestinian teacher, father, and community leader, murdered by an Israeli settler. Haddad testifies against the inhuman colonial violence that was the antithesis of Oudeh's spirit.
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"to be
a citizen what else what else
could it mean to have such privilege
of sitting still in silence when being
asked to when being asked
to live & to live & to live
without having to say you are
welcome" - @chriscampanioni.bsky.social in @proteanmag.com
a citizen what else what else
could it mean to have such privilege
of sitting still in silence when being
asked to when being asked
to live & to live & to live
without having to say you are
welcome" - @chriscampanioni.bsky.social in @proteanmag.com
Poet Chris Campanioni's "we never hear about the fathers of birds" explores the contradictory ways the self is formed, concluding that "the rich // confusion between a thing & / I arrives always / through violence."
proteanmag.com/2025/12/07/w...
proteanmag.com/2025/12/07/w...
we never hear about the fathers of birds • Protean Magazine
Poet Chris Campanioni's "we never hear about the fathers of birds" explores the contradictory ways the self is formed, concluding that "the rich // confusion between a thing & / I arrives always / thr...
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December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"to be
a citizen what else what else
could it mean to have such privilege
of sitting still in silence when being
asked to when being asked
to live & to live & to live
without having to say you are
welcome" - @chriscampanioni.bsky.social in @proteanmag.com
a citizen what else what else
could it mean to have such privilege
of sitting still in silence when being
asked to when being asked
to live & to live & to live
without having to say you are
welcome" - @chriscampanioni.bsky.social in @proteanmag.com
Poet Chris Campanioni's "we never hear about the fathers of birds" explores the contradictory ways the self is formed, concluding that "the rich // confusion between a thing & / I arrives always / through violence."
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we never hear about the fathers of birds • Protean Magazine
Poet Chris Campanioni's "we never hear about the fathers of birds" explores the contradictory ways the self is formed, concluding that "the rich // confusion between a thing & / I arrives always / thr...
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December 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Poet Chris Campanioni's "we never hear about the fathers of birds" explores the contradictory ways the self is formed, concluding that "the rich // confusion between a thing & / I arrives always / through violence."
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So glad to have been able to write about Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social for @proteanmag.com. Special thanks to Tyler Walicek, an extraordinary editor.
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Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Children, out this month from Haymarket Books.Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Ch...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
So glad to have been able to write about Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social for @proteanmag.com. Special thanks to Tyler Walicek, an extraordinary editor.
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"The suppression, erasure, and eradication of 'Palestine' and 'Palestinian' in the English language, through blatant and nefarious means, is a threat to the very idea of language itself."
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The End of Palestine in English • Protean Magazine
Rawad Wehbe writes with an extended critique of the shallow representationalism and tokenization that have marked the orientation of leading Western media spaces towards Palestinian poetry. Rather tha...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"The suppression, erasure, and eradication of 'Palestine' and 'Palestinian' in the English language, through blatant and nefarious means, is a threat to the very idea of language itself."
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November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
In “i love you more than the law will let me,” poet and journalist Jacqui Germain extols the barricade, the torched precinct, and the looted storefront as the highest expressions of revolutionary tenderness.
i love you more than the law will let me
In "i love you more than the law will let me," poet and journalist Jacqui Germain extols the barricade, the torched precinct, and the looted storefront as the highest expressions of revolutionary…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In “i love you more than the law will let me,” poet and journalist Jacqui Germain extols the barricade, the torched precinct, and the looted storefront as the highest expressions of revolutionary tenderness.
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"Anti-anti-maternalism emphasizes that the dependency of children on adults does not need to reinforce domination. Being dependent is not about being subsumed beneath or being rendered less-than."
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Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Children, out this month from Haymarket Books.Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Ch...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:03 AM
"Anti-anti-maternalism emphasizes that the dependency of children on adults does not need to reinforce domination. Being dependent is not about being subsumed beneath or being rendered less-than."
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A small poem of mine is up at @proteanmag.com. Thanks to Poetry Editor Dominick Knowles.
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Central Administration Integrates a Dependent Territory • Protean Magazine
Poet Justin Aoba's "Central Administration Integrates a Dependent Territory" moves through the brutalities of state-formation and collapse, illuminating "fissures / read by the scraping of tremulous f...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A small poem of mine is up at @proteanmag.com. Thanks to Poetry Editor Dominick Knowles.
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