Essential Resources for Culture Bearers and Truth-Tellers. This comprehensive manual, published by PEN America in January 2021, serves as an essential complement to the work I've been documenting, offering practical frameworks for artists, writers, and cultural practitioners who find themselves targeted for their creative expression. The ARC Safety Guide emerges from a stark reality: in 2019 alone, over 700 incidents of artistic freedom violations were documented across at least 93 countries,...

A Framework for Understanding Fragmentation, Lost Futures, and Locked Imaginations Part III: When Art Forgets to Build A feeling has followed me through every art gallery, and it's taken me years to understand that what I was encountering wasn't failure but strategy, wasn't accident but deliberate choice, wasn't one artist's limitation but an entire mode of cultural production that had decided, for reasons that made historical sense even if they led to a dead end, that meaning-making itself...

A Framework for Understanding Fragmentation, Lost Futures, and Locked Imaginations Part I: The Iconoclasm and Its Weapon It's 11:47 PM and i am doing it again, my phone glowing blue in the dark like a lifeline to everywhere and nowhere at once, and the first thing i see is a video of Gaza, rubble, a child's kissing the hand of a diceased grown up,cand I swipe, now it's an academic thread about decolonial theory that i started reading three days ago and will never finish on my little screen,...