Stories

Photography

New Imaginings / Intertwined Imaginaries

Photographer Tamary Kudita’s powerful portraits aim to retell and recentre the often obscured histories of Zimbabweans and other African cultures. Drawing from fabrics and mixing African and...

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Interviews

Decolonising the Garden

Meet the ‘outspoken gardener’ who sees possibilities of an otherwise. During the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, gardener Sui Searle founded the platform Decolonising the...

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Features

The Queer Pluriverse

Words by Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin
Illustrations by Paola De La Cruz

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Features

Archipelago of Care

How contemporary artists are working with the environment to co-create with nature, bridging the islands in the archipelago of the human and more-than-human world.

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Features

Finding Pluriversal Paths

The book Pluriverse - A Post-Development Dictionary, which this feature is extracted from, is an act of renewal and repoliticisation, where “the political” means a collaboration among dissenting...

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Features

The beginning, the middle, and the beginning

A conversation with Nêgo Bispo

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Features

Reclaiming Place

Talia Woodin reflects on how their upbringing amidst an Oxford community’s reclamation of a green space, shaped the foundations of their creative practice and activism.

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Features

Planting the Future

How can we imagine flourishing futures amid the polycrisis? Kalpana Arias explores how gardens are on the frontlines of resistance and regeneration.

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Features

In the beginning, there was the forest

Challenging misconceptions and reweaving the contemporary narrative, a group of Visayan heritage advocates are on a voyage to unearth the legacy of pre-colonial Philippines and reshape what it...

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Poems

Oshun and Yemaya

I saw the ships mother, I saw them come and steal our loved one » said Oshun as she curled up in her mother’s arms.
Who said that Gods couldn’t feel pain?

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Essays

Teko Porã

The good and beautiful paths of bem viver

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Essays

Healing Pasts and Growing Futures

The rhythms of nature remind us that harshness doesn’t have to harden us.

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THENATUREKIND

I’m trying to be a better daughter to nature. For a long time, our relationship was very one sided – nature did all the giving.

Ellen is a public speaker, activist and guerrilla gardener who founded Nature is a Human Right, the campaign to make access to green space a universal right.
Essays

The Confluence Of Many Kindnesses

A story of canopy shyness in Bengaluru’s rain trees.

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