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latest issue Solidarity

Illustrated magazine cover titled "kindling & sage" with a theme of solidarity and social justice. The artwork shows diverse groups of people holding signs with messages like "Housing is a human right," "Poverty is a policy choice," "End racist violence and discrimination," and "No more deaths in custody." The background and details are black, white, and pink, with depictions of activism and community.
Magazine spread with left page featuring a person holding a transgender pride flag, viewed from behind, and the right page displaying the article titled "we must look to each other: a reflection on transgender liberation" by Hunter Lee.
Abstract painting of diverse faces in vibrant colors

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Inside Issue n°3: Joy

  • A woman with long dark hair and a green dress smiles while standing against a textured white wall.

    In the park with Randa Abdel-Fattah

  • Overhead view of a person cooking on a traditional stove, wearing a patterned garment, next to pots and dishes.

    Mustard Koi Fish - a short story by Jessica D'Cruze

  • Blue fish illustration with stylized wings and orange background, surrounded by stars and text at the top.

    nunyar jalam; our garuwa provides by Phoebe McIlwraith and Kathleen Butler-McIlwraith

  • Variety of Middle Eastern dishes on a wooden table, including bread, sliced tomatoes, olives, fresh greens, cucumber, cooked eggs, chickpeas, and a meat-topped flatbread.

    On Being an Arab Vegetarian: Greenwashing, Tabikh & Multiculturalism by Jeanine Hourani

  • Freshly harvested vegetables including carrots with tops, red beets with leaves, red and green tomatoes on a rocky surface, with bare feet visible at the bottom.

    On joy in melancholia by Priyanka Bromhead

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around the kitchen table with Sara M. Saleh & Ancestress Teila Watson

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Smiling person wearing an orange and white garment, seated against a peach-colored wall.

“I don't exist as a reaction to the coloniser or in opposition to the white gaze. I'm not an ‘other’, I don't apply that white gaze to myself.

I am complex and boring and mundane and gentle and fierce and all the things. And healing.”

- Sara M. Saleh

Woman in fur coat with floral headdress on black background.

“If white australia wants a future, they need to be able to see us and they need to allow us to run this country in a Blak way, because colonialism is killing humanity and it's killing the earth.”

- Ancestress Teila Watson

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