How Technology is Reinventing Inequality in the Digital Era A thread 🧵 ✍️ Adi Roy www.politicalpandora.com/post/technol...

Violence as a Colonial Ecology: On Environmental Warfare in Gaza A Thread 🧵 ✍️ Tatenda Dlali www.politicalpandora.com/post/violenc...

Streaming, fundamentally, doesn’t give creative teams enough time to actually make the kinds of episode-to-episode changes that used to be possible. It’s not profitable in the short term. www.politicalpandora.com/post/wednesd...

Netflix has been experiencing a total artistic collapse for a while now, and it’s hard to imagine a literal collapse is too far behind; we all know what they say about ventures that are too big to fail. www.politicalpandora.com/post/wednesd...

Lights, Camera, Culture: Examining the Laws of Global Storytelling A thread 🧵 www.politicalpandora.com/post/lights-...

The Unnatural Art of Being: Cinema's Camp Evolution A Thread 🧵 www.politicalpandora.com/post/the-unn...

Occupied Imaginations: The Role of Art in Palestinian Resistance A Thread 🧵 www.politicalpandora.com/post/occupie...

Tracing the Racial DNA in Colour Film A Thread🧵 www.politicalpandora.com/post/cameras...

Pandora’s Vinyl: Rachael & Vilray’s West of Broadway Rachael & Vilray experimentally create a body of work that masterfully captures romance and diatribe in music. www.politicalpandora.com/post/rachael...

Pandora’s Vinyl: Rachael & Vilray’s West of Broadway As with past Rachael & Vilray albums, this one follows romantic tones that deeply showcase the authenticity of love. www.politicalpandora.com/post/rachael...

Trump’s Big “Beautiful” Bill on Climate A thread 🧵 #UnitedStates #Trump #ClimatePolicy www.politicalpandora.com/post/trump-b...

The Troubled Tune of Hollywood’s Music Biopics A Thread 🧵 www.politicalpandora.com/post/trouble...

It’s a game of tug-of-war when cities and authorities are positioned to choose between catering to visitors for economic growth and protecting the welfare of locals. www.politicalpandora.com/post/commodi...

Spain, a country that has long been celebrated as a haven for travellers, now grapples with the heavy costs of maintaining this pristine image. www.politicalpandora.com/post/commodi...

Reels of Rage: Hyperreality and the Digital Rise of Hindutva A Thread 🧵 ✍️ Vaishnavi Manju Pal www.politicalpandora.com/post/reels-r...

Accent, Access and Authority: Language's Hidden Politics A Thread 🧵 www.politicalpandora.com/post/accent-...

How Waste Pickers Are Reshaping the Global Plastics Treaty A thread 🧵 ✍️ David Sathuluri #WastePickers #PlasticPollution #RecyclingWorkers

The People vs. Amazon A Thread 🧵 ✍️ Tatenda Dlali #Khoisan #IndigenousRights www.politicalpandora.com/post/the-peo...

Pandora’s Vinyl: Jabulile Majola: Isitifikethi Isitifiketi is a museum, not only of Majola’s experiences, but of the human condition. www.politicalpandora.com/post/jabulil...

Pandora’s Vinyl: Jabulile Majola: Isitifikethi Majola is successful in creating the imagery of a person holding their heart, or at least its glowy essence, out in their hands as a gift. www.politicalpandora.com/post/jabulil...

Quilts, Gardens and Weaving: Inheriting Knowledge Without Words A Thread 🧵 ✍️ Harriet Sanderson #CraftResistance #WomenLabour www.politicalpandora.com/post/quilts-...

Love may be liberating or imprisoning. For Cleo and Frank, it was marked by a perpetual tension between Cleo’s fierce independence and Frank’s desire to provide for her, writes Harnoor Kaur Uppal. www.politicalpandora.com/post/a-lover...

A camera is supposed to capture the truth, yet it was also a technology that helped perpetuate racial biases in culture. www.politicalpandora.com/post/cameras...

Pandora’s Vinyl: Fontaines D.C.’s Romance Romance is Fontaines D.C. going full Radiohead while somehow making it feel completely their own, which should be impossible, but here we are. www.politicalpandora.com/post/fontain...

Amazon is only the most recent adversary in the Khoisan’s long battle against cultural, socio-political, and economic erasure. The Khoisan people had been fighting for the memory and cultural significance of their language and their land for centuries. www.politicalpandora.com/post/the-peo...

Quilting, gardening and weaving come forth as not simply hobbies, but symbols of care, memory and resistance. Quilting, born out of resourcefulness, charts intimate lives alongside historical testimonies. #CulturalHeritage Read more: www.politicalpandora.com/post/quilts-...

With Weapons, Cregger seems to be grappling with the question: How do you follow up on a breakout hit? #Weapons #ZachCregger www.politicalpandora.com/post/weapons...

Wicked is a flawed but entertaining spectacle that honours its source material while carving out its own identity. It's a reminder of musical theatre's power to tackle complex themes. #Wicked #ArianaGrande www.politicalpandora.com/post/defying...

Warfare has an environmental impact that the world cannot ignore or continue to compartmentalise. #ClimateChange www.politicalpandora.com/post/when-na...

NEW ISSUE: Where quilts and baskets carry histories, libraries vanish, speech uncovers politics, and Palestinian art resists, the August issue of Pandora Curated traces the quiet revolutions transforming our world. Read Now: politicalpandora.com/curated

By making unfounded claims of rising crime and linking asylum seekers to societal collapse, Farage risks inflaming social tensions and legitimising hostility towards vulnerable groups. #NigelFarage #ReformUK www.politicalpandora.com/post/the-ref...

Climate Technology Transfers in a Divided Climate World A thread 🧵 ✍️ Adil Ashraf Mayo #Climate #Technology #GlobalSouth www.politicalpandora.com/post/climate...

The Silent Siege of Bodhgaya: Buddhism’s Fight Against Brahmanical Dominance A thread 🧵 ✍️ Vaishnavi Manju Pal #BodhgayaTempleAct #HumanRights #Buddhism www.politicalpandora.com/post/silent-...

Rising Nationalism and Progressive Politics in India and Pakistan A thread 🧵 ✍️ Zaineb Majoka #India #Pakistan #IndoPakRelations www.politicalpandora.com/post/rising-...

Pandora’s Vinyl Lorde’s Virgin This is Lorde at 28, post-breakup from her former label exec, post-birth control, post-pretending that growing up famous doesn't mess with your head in spectacular ways. #Lorde #Vinyl #Virgin www.politicalpandora.com/post/lorde-v...

Janelle Monáe's Dirty Computer is a revelation, a sonic coming-out party that arrived in 2018 like a technicolour bomb detonating across the landscape of pop music. #JanelleMonáe #DirtyComputerAlbum www.politicalpandora.com/post/janelle...

Due to the spherical nature of the Earth, it is not possible to represent it perfectly on a flat plane. While these imperfections are inevitable, inaccurate map projections may have lasting effects. #Cartography #Education www.politicalpandora.com/post/classro...

Fantastic Four: First Steps, based so much of its pre-release marketing on emphasizing how this wasn’t an MCU movie, takes place in the 60s, in an alternate reality. And that’s where it should be allowed to stay, quite frankly. www.politicalpandora.com/post/fantast...

The accelerating pace of technological development is transforming daily life across Europe, but is exposing the unequal access it provides. #DigitalGovernance #Infrastructure www.politicalpandora.com/post/europe-...

The Asylum Emergency Measures Act, as proposed by former Minister Faber, stipulates tightened residence permits and further criminalises undocumented migrants. Specifically, residence permits have been shortened from five to three years. www.politicalpandora.com/post/policie...

Pandora’s Vinyl Brandon Woody: For The Love Of It All Not only does Woody remind us of the comfort of home, but he extends this exploration using his complex trumpet techniques to evoke an array of emotions, from anxiety to serenity. www.politicalpandora.com/post/brandon...

From Classroom Walls to the Colonial Gaze: Rethinking the World Map A thread 🧵 ✍️ Megan Goh #Eurocentrism #CulturalErasure #IndigenousMaps www.politicalpandora.com/post/classro...

Laundry Love and other community organisations like it can be assessed to explore the role of community building in creating sustainable cities and the historical role of libraries, laundromats, and flea markets. #ThirdSpaces #Sustainablilty www.politicalpandora.com/post/librari...

From subversive thrillers to gothic-pop odysseys, Pandora’s entertainment staff weighs in on the films and albums that have defined 2025 so far. Here are our mid-year favourites, spotlighting the boldest, strangest and most unforgettable works of the year.

Understanding range expansion as forced migration allows us to see the displacement of both human communities and more-than-human species as connected, both shaped by the impacts of anthropogenic climate change and its underlying causes.

Billie Eilish's Hit Me Hard and Soft is a sonically lush journey through the labyrinth of love, identity, and self-discovery. #BillieEilish #HitMeHardAndSoft www.politicalpandora.com/post/billie-...

In our world, which glorifies productivity while offering little stability, many people find themselves working harder than ever yet feeling more disconnected from their labour. #Alienation #Capitalism www.politicalpandora.com/post/alienat...

The entire life cycle of the arms industry, from manufacturing to use, bears unimaginable costs to all types of life. #NuclearRisk #MiddleEast www.politicalpandora.com/post/when-na...

In our world, which glorifies productivity while offering little stability, many people find themselves working harder than ever yet feeling more disconnected from their labour. #Alienation #Capitalism www.politicalpandora.com/post/alienat...

Doechii refuses to be anyone’s prey, instead embracing her role as the “Swamp Princess” and predator in her own story. #Doechii #AlligatorBitesNeverHeal www.politicalpandora.com/post/doechii...