I've also been banging on and on about this essay! Each re-read offers new gifts (like this one!) proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...

"Primordial Freedoms: An Interview with David Wengrow" proteanmag.com/2022/03/28/p...

I've been banging on & on about Fargo Tbakhi's essay in @proteanmag.com ever since it came out almost 2 yrs ago this part spoke to me the most, cuz i've been pleading with ppl to stop using this word, so i am sharing it again with y'all. "t*r*or*sm is the great weapon of the West. It is used only

Now up: Noah Kulwin reviews Seth Harp's new book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel," tracing the historical continuities between Vietnam War era drug smuggling operations and the overwhelming present-day criminality taking place at the Fort. proteanmag.com/2025/11/12/a...

That’s all very fair but my most recent story literally compares AI to Victorian grave robbers, like let’s think about who we’re piling on before going off proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...

"Fortunately, Assata left us with a map, a rich archive of her travails, aspirations, and insights, written in her own words" -Orisanmi Burton proteanmag.com/2025/10/07/a...

“Look how beautiful the world can be I tried to say through my broken teeth. Alright well now he was pulling out a gun. I didn’t think we were allowed do that.” proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

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From the pages of Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps --

“Restricting the right to read, in this way, is a tactic intimately bound up with the history of American racism and white supremacy.” proteanmag.com/2021/11/29/t...

Nota no-mental para no olvidar que quiero conseguir este libro. Leí un fragmento de The Rules y mi corazón se rompió y re-ensambló al mismo tiempo. Me da esperanza creer que hay pistas acá para otras formas de documentar/narrar posibles.

What if Karl Marx was a Texan? This piece imagines what almost happened....

“Despite some significant acts of interracial working-class solidarity in 1877, the gains that Marx had anticipated for the U.S. labor movement went unfulfilled—especially his hopes that white workers would discard their racism with the end of slavery.”

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

“The desire for self-fictionalization, the interest in personal narrative, the longing to see your own story told in a way that makes sense: this is the core of the problems of identity and authenticity that delineate the problem of Chineseness.” proteanmag.com/2024/06/27/c...

I know you’re probably sick of my shit by now but I don’t care. Read it or be cursed!

Three new short stories by Luke O’Neil (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social)—"The rules,” “How to live,” and “Something that was once potentially good”—are excerpted here. All three appear in his new book of stories, We Had it Coming and Other Fictions, now out from OR Books. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

The good doctors need our data and our bodies in order to learn, evolve, conquer, and most importantly for them, profit. Ignore the warning signals your brain screams out when it encounters an undead creature that pretends to have a soul and urges you to trust it. proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...

happy Halloween—enjoy this next entry in Protean’s tradition: we have Kim Kelly once again exploring more fascinating and macabre historical narratives, and making the case that we still show just as much ghoulish disrespect to human values and our fellows to this day.

“Walia argues that these liberal paradigms [of immigration policy] uphold a supplicant-and-savior power relationship while ignoring the exploitative practices that produce this dynamic.”

My favorite Halloween tradition is writing a spooky history essay for @proteanmag.com, and 2025’s is a good one. This time, we’re heading back to the graveyard. Bring a shovel. proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...

This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration for profit—a long-dead symptom of the heedless cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing so grotesque could still take place in our enlightened era. proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...

You can still snag a print edition of our most recent print edition—Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps. proteanmag.com/product/prot...

Kali Puja just passed so I’m sharing this poem I wrote appreciative of Her but maybe not as appreciative of everything else related to faith. It’s my presentation of life in central jersey as well, as a Desi, among Desis, not romanticized proteanmag.com/2025/01/06/t...

Every trans suicide is state-sanctioned murder. proteanmag.com/2024/06/27/e...

From the Protean Archive - “Around the world, vast labor movements merged economic and radical political demands; they pioneered mass political parties that seemed to be driven by an irresistible momentum towards victory, even electoral victory." proteanmag.com/2024/06/16/f...

Part of a series of archival ekphrasis, Eric Abalajon's "filipino laborers working as the boss looks on" interprets the visual remnants of class struggle from economic periphery to imperial core. proteanmag.com/2025/10/28/f...

You can still snag a print edition of our most recent print edition—Protean Magazine Issue V: Contra Temps. proteanmag.com/product/prot...

From the Protean Archive - “Around the world, vast labor movements merged economic and radical political demands; they pioneered mass political parties that seemed to be driven by an irresistible momentum towards victory, even electoral victory."

« Having fulfilled her duty to the utmost degree, Assata has joined the pantheon of Black revolutionary warrior women and men. [...] We who remain must now make her proud. » proteanmag.com/2025/10/07/a... #assatashakur

“Man-made climate change and also-man-made environmental racism will work in combination to ensure that the poor, Black neighborhoods of New Orleans are dangerously hot. People will die.”

"The sign beckons me, in three languages, to walk softly on these cobbled streets." – Nyree Abrahamian, "The Six Villages of Musa Dagh"

"Doesn’t more visibility contribute to Gaza's cause? This argument has not gone unconsidered. Still, I think we need a more thoughtful critique of the West’s sudden, eager embrace of poets like Mosab Abu Toha to move beyond the cheerleading that precludes criticism." proteanmag.com/2025/10/05/t...

In dialogue with the Qur'an, Ayesha Siddiqi's poem "Sand" animates the inanimate, exploring what toils "in the machinery of the world." proteanmag.com/2025/10/16/s...

"Doesn’t more visibility contribute to Gaza's cause? This argument has not gone unconsidered. Still, I think we need a more thoughtful critique of the West’s sudden, eager embrace of poets like Mosab Abu Toha to move beyond the cheerleading that precludes criticism." proteanmag.com/2025/10/05/t...

From the Protean Archive - “[T]he Bishop’s negotiation with the apartheid leadership had laundered the aims of a racist government and a white society at large that sought to neutralize more radical African nationalist forces…"

I have a new poem in @proteanmag.com proteanmag.com/2025/10/16/s... 💎⛰️🪞💙

this is a really, really fascinating article from Greg Afinogenov about his relative that participated in organizing before the Russian Revolution. this appeared in our third print issue—worth reading online now if you didn't get your copy at the time (in which case i still don't forgive you)

From the Protean Archive - “But at the end of Capital—in fact, on the last page of the final chapter—Marx called attention to the metastasizing growth of banks, railroad companies, and land speculators in the postwar U.S.”

Marx Goes to Texas Ryan Moore proteanmag.com/2024/08/11/m...

" Planning Against Palestine ... They plan for our disposability, we should plan for theirs." Alberto Toscano / @alfatau.bsky.social via @proteanmag.com

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From the Protean Archive - “In the years since I discovered that piece of paper from the Archive of the Revolution, I have found myself pulled toward two diametrically opposite conclusions.” proteanmag.com/2024/06/16/f...

This is a very thoughtful answer indeed! I cannot do it justice, but Andreas Malm just gave a talk based in psychoanalytic theory about how climate denial becomes repression which allows for continued cognitive dissonance. proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...

a remarkable story here: Rebecca Ruth Gould was able to interview the Nasrallahs, a Gazan family, in Egypt. Rachel Corrie died to save their home in 2003—though Israel ultimately demolished it. their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.

In 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed saving the Nasrallah family's Gaza home. In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild. proteanmag.com/2025/10/15/a...

"In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire", Alberto Toscano writes about the Trump administration's Gaza ceasefire plan's genocidal logic of displacement and accumulation." proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...

In a follow-up to his and Brenna Bhandar's "Slumlord Empire," Alberto Toscano writes on the genocidal plans for the "redevelopment" of Gaza in the wake of ethnic cleansing. Trump, Curtis Yarvin, Blair, and other elites are scheming for accumulation and dispossession. proteanmag.com/2025/10/13/p...

Andreas Malm and Wim Carton's The Long Heat is now out with Verso (@versobooks.bsky.social). In June, Bernardo Jurema and Elias König interviewed Malm on the central ideas in his latest books, the dangers of geoengineering, the Frankfurt School on climate, and more. proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...