Illustrated Journal

"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Through this journal, we are inviting you into a new way of thinking and doing, one which begins with questioning everything we take for granted.

In particular, how we contribute – or think we contribute – to a better world. We will not have all the answers, but we want to ask better questions.

Featured
August 1, 2025

Do No Harm

“The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of, is the price we pay for the fact that we live our lives not by ourselves but among our fellow men, and that the faculty of action, which, after all, is the political faculty par excellence, can be actualized only as one of the many and manifold forces of human community.” — Hannah Arendt

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June 21, 2024

Words from the Congo

“"Poetry is about freedom of articulation and affirming the truth of our experiences. I think of my writing as joining a long line of women’s resistance poetry that exposes the social and political conditions of women’s existences.” — Sarah Lubala

Contemplation
June 7, 2024

Sudan Sounds

“You belong anywhere you can flee to and return from in one piece” ― K. Eltinaé

Contemplation
May 24, 2024

For The Struggle

“The poets, by which I mean all artists, are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only the poets.” — James Baldwin

Thinking
May 10, 2024

Bearing the World

"We have art in order not to die from the truth." — Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking
April 26, 2024

Narrative Warfare

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda

Thinking
April 12, 2024

Politics of Blame

“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.” — Chinese proverb

Thinking

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