David Velasco in @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/how...

Really loved learning more about @equatormag.bsky.social ! You should subscribe to this rad new rag!!

"We had a chance to not sell ourselves out. We had a chance, and we blew it. This did not end well, and still we can choose to begin again, tilting – collectively, contingently – toward the pitch of liberation." David Velasco in @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/how...

“The art world, with all its progressive scaffolding and humanist ornamentation, practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion, couldn’t metabolize Palestine. It still can’t.” David Velasco @equatormag.bsky.social — www.equator.org/articles/how...

Out today: a major new essay by former Artforum editor David Velasco, fired over a pro-Palestine open letter, surveying 2 years of turmoil in the art world, which was "practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion" -- except Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/how...

"...the soft fantasy of a Rushdie or an Adichie – that storytelling and literature will encourage mutual understanding and save the world..." Two essays by Natalia Ginzburg; head spinning round the vicious circle as always when one tries to comprehend the Middle East. www.equator.org/articles/our...

…the horror of countless Jewish dissenters over the fact that “those who once were victims can now inflict violence on their fellow beings and fail to see in them what they themselves were yesterday” www.equator.org/articles/our...

www.equator.org/articles/our... “In these two essays, newly translated for Equator, the Italian writer articulates a powerful moral vision of what it means to belong, and to whom we owe our compassion.”

The Makers of Modern China www.equator.org/articles/the...

my love for natalia's writing knows no bounds

“I know few things about myself, but I know with absolute certainty that I do not want to be on the side of those who use weapons, money and culture to oppress farmers and shepherds.” - extraordinary essay by Natalia Ginzburg in @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/our...

If you have not yet come across Equator I urge you to look at some of what they are publishing. These essays by Natalia Ginzburg respond with clarity and insight to the ways in which Israel continued to be identified as progressive after 1967 and the six day war. #NataliaGinzburg

Really enjoyed this selection of Zheng Xiaoqiong's writing in @equatormag.bsky.social, so evocative of migrant worker life in Guangdong during the boom years

This new magazine is doing amazing work. Have a look.

Pankaj Mishra on why the uncompromising moral vision of Natalia Ginzburg -- Italian novelist, essayist, activist, politician -- resonates today, and informs Equator's mission to alert people in dark times that there were always people who "invoked very different values" vimeo.com/1146352873/1...

new today: for the first time in English, two brilliant essays by Natalia Ginzburg, "Universal Pity" and "The Jews," translated by Gini Alhadeff, with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra www.equator.org/articles/our...

"'I had to leave!' A whole generation of rural youngsters felt this yearning." So grateful for this essay by Zheng Xiaoqiong in @equatormag.bsky.social (tr. Eleanor Goodman) on the aspirations, disillusionment, and perseverance of fellow migrant workers whose labor powered China's industrial rise👇

This is great, really loved getting to read these oral histories

For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution www.equator.org/articles/the...

Equator sends out a weekly newsletter filled with bonus content from contributors and friends. This week, Eleanor Goodman, who translated Zheng Xiaoqiong’s oral histories of labour migration to Guangdong, selects five artists and writers engaging this subject. Sign up here: www.equator.org/join

front line letters from the laborers whose hands shaped the 21st century world we inhabit. extraordinary writing

Zheng Xiaoqiong’s oral histories of migrant workers are firmly rooted in Guangdong, but they speak to universal themes of labour and exploitation under capitalism

"These are the stories of people who built modern China, but were rarely invited into its narrative." @kaiserkuo.bsky.social introduces an @equatormag.bsky.social feature on workers in China, written by Zheng Xiaoqiong and translated by Eleanor Goodman.

Read Zheng Xiaoqiong‘s poignant chronicles of migrant workers in China’s booming manufacturing industry. As @kaiserkuo.bsky.social notes in his introduction: “These are the stories of people who built modern China, but were rarely invited into its narrative.” www.equator.org/articles/the...

Really beautiful piece, fragments of an unpublished oral history of the great migration to Guangdong by the poet Zheng Xiaoqiong

“The 1990s in rural China was an era of Hong Kong films, old-fashioned VCRs, fuzzy TV screens, and constraint; the odour of cheap cigarettes & foot stench & sweat stink & talcum powder… these are defining childhood memories for an entire generation.” Extraordinary: www.equator.org/articles/the...

This is an insider account of the manufacturing boom that transformed our world. Poet Zheng Xiaoqiong and photographer Zhan Youbing both worked for years in Guangdong’s factories before turning to art. They cast a human light on their fellow migrant labourers. www.equator.org/articles/the...

always worth hearing from the people who make your stuff www.equator.org/articles/the...

Another impressive piece on China from @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/the... --Eleanor Goodman translation of reportage by Zheng Xiaoqiong

An extraordinary piece of writing www.equator.org/articles/the...

Zheng Xiaoqiong draws unforgettable pen-portraits of her fellow migrants toiling away in Guangdong’s factories. Read her stories of ailing bodies and workplace injuries; child labourers and predatory foreman; smelly socks, bad cigarettes – and shifts that never end: www.equator.org/articles/the...

Zheng Xiaoqiong's In the Roar of the Machine is a poetry collection (trans. Eleanor Goodman) set among the factories and dormitories of Guandong. Zheng worked in a factory for 10 years, interviewing her neighbors and colleagues. Four of them are in @equatormag.bsky.social

Fascinating stories of Chinese workers who migrated from rural areas to Guangdong in 2006-15: skillfully collected by the poet Zheng Xiaoqiong, translated by Eleanor Goodman, insightfully introduced by @kaiserkuo.bsky.social—and, thankfully, published by @equatormag.bsky.social.

Amazing. Fascinating.

"These are the stories of people who built modern China, but were rarely invited into its narrative. Zheng listens to them. And because she does, they enter the record not as anonymous labourers, but as full human beings." www.equator.org/articles/the...

New @equatormag.bsky.social: Zheng Xiaoqiong’s revelatory oral history of migrant laborers in Guangdong’s factories. These stories, which were too sensitive to publish in China, appear here for the first time in any language, in Eleanor Goodman’s translation: www.equator.org/articles/the...

Yevgenia Belorusets on forced conscription and other inconvenient truths about Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion: ”I have started to think that this silence gives rise to the image of a country that wants to wage war – a heroic society.”

Four years into Russia’s full-scale aggression, the costs of war have been immense in Ukraine. Yevgenia Belorusets writes about the Ukrainian army’s policy of forced conscription – a subject the western media largely prefers to ignore:

Chappals (leather slippers) have a lot to teach us about the material and metaphysical violence of the caste system. Chandu Maheriya studies this humble item of footwear:

A difficult and important dispatch from Kyiv by Yevgenia Belorusets about the real human toll of an endless resistance to the Russian invasion www.equator.org/articles/the...

Four years into Russia’s full-scale aggression, the costs of war have been immense in Ukraine. Yevgenia Belorusets writes about the Ukrainian army’s policy of forced conscription – a subject the western media largely prefers to ignore :

I'm slightly late to this party - it's been sitting in an open tab for a while - but you MUST find time to read this extraordinary and brilliant piece by @naomiaklein.bsky.social in the wonderful new @equatormag.bsky.social It's a powerful, beautiful and somewhat revelatory essay

"And what about all those books with checklists on how to spot your country sliding into fascism? Why did so many of the people who read them—and even some of the people who wrote them—falter when a genocide was unfolding on their screens..." - @naomiaklein.bsky.social h/t @annfriedman.bsky.social

thank you to everyone finding this essay in a brand new magazine - one that is trying to do something different in this time of media consolidation...

excellent piece, would love to read the book. publishers of lit in translation take note!

@equatormag.bsky.social was founded to bring intellectuals like Chandu Maheriya – a brilliant and prolific Dalit writer and activist, who is hardly known outside Gujarat – to a global audience. Read his reflection on caste and tanning, translated by Hemang Ashwinkumar

"Well into the 1970s, the dominance of the Darbars – the landed nobility – in the Bhal region of Gujarat was so total that a Dalit man, seeing a pair of shoes on the threshold of his house, had to turn around and walk away –" + www.equator.org/articles/you...

This week @equatormag.bsky.social published two essays in translation: Yevgenia Belorusets’s haunting reflection on forced conscription in Ukraine and Chandu Maheriya’s poignant memoir about caste and leather work. www.equator.org/articles/the... www.equator.org/articles/you...

Incredible essay www.equator.org/articles/sur... from @naomiaklein.bsky.social for @equatormag.bsky.social "The symmetries between our present-day depravities and the ones the Surrealists captured suddenly felt uncanny, to the point of nausea. Time seemed to collapse in on itself."