Wasafiri, Volume 39, Issue 2 (2024)

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Abolitions: Writing Against Abandonment

Editorial

Editorial
Writing Against Abandonment
Farhaana Arefin & Abeera Khan
Pages: 1-3
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Life Writing

Article
The Prison As a Text
Layan Kayed & Roba Alsalibi
Pages: 4-9
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Poetry

Poetry
Manifesto
Sarah Lasoye
Pages: 10-12
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Article

Article
Rejecting Defeat and Approaching Liberation: Palestinian Prisoners’ Hunger Strikes
Basil Farraj
Pages: 13-23
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Interview

Interview
‘We Won’t Abandon You’: An Interview with Suhaiymah Manzoor-khan and Hareem Ghani of Nejma Collective
Latifa Akay
Pages: 24-30
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Life Writing

Article
On Fungal Dreams of Liberation
Maymana Arefin
Pages: 31-35
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Article

Article
Competing Choreographies of the Postcolonial Plantation: Planter’s Pageantry Meets Sistren Collective’s Sweet Sugar Rage
Julia Michiko Hori
Pages: 36-46
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Fiction

Fictional Work
Happy Birthday, You Are No Longer a Daughter
Pear Nuallak
Pages: 47-54
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Art

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Respectable: Beyond a Wretched Working Class
Mohammed Z Rahman
Pages: 55-66
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Poetry

Poetry
At the 90 Feet Road Junction
Shripad Sinnakaar
Page: 67
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Fiction

Fictional Work
Once Upon a Time, Tomorrow
Hilal Chouman & Caline Nasrallah
Pages: 68-74
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Life Writing

Article
Lumma! In Your Name
Mahrang Baloch & Mahvish Ahmad
Pages: 75-79
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Poetry

Poetry
Protest
N M Danish & Haider Shahbaz
Pages: 80-83
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Interview

Interview
‘For Us, Abolition Is an Anti-Colonial, Anti-Fascist Position’: An Interview with Annick Metefia of Mwasi Collectif
Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert
Pages: 84-89
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Life Writing

Article
Shelters of Innocence
Jun Pang
Pages: 90-96
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Fiction

Fictional Work
Lákíríboto — ‘Season One: Glass Half Empty (2005)’
Ayòdélé Olófintúadé
Pages: 97-102
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Interview

Interview
‘Periodicals Were the Beating Hearts of Global Movements’: An Interview with Mahvish Ahmad, Koni Benson, and Hana Morgenstern of Revolutionary Papers
Marral Shamshiri
Pages: 103-112
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Poetry

Poetry
invocation
Nat Raha
Pages: 113-115
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Review Essay

Book Review
Everything for Everyone: Writing Toward Freedom
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052–2072 M E O’Brien. Translated by Eman Abdelhadi Common Notions, New York 2022, pb, 239pp, $18.00 ISBN 9781942173588 | www.commonnotions.org; Hangman Maya Binyam Puskin Press, London 2023, hb, 194pp, £16.99 ISBN 9781911590774 | www.pushkinpress.com; Truth & Dare So Mayer Cipher Press, London 2003, pb, 260pp, £10.99 ISBN 9781739784980 | www.cipherpress.co.uk
Lola Olufemi
Pages: 117-121
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Health Communism
Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant Verso, London 2022, hb, 240pp, £16.99 ISBN 9781839765162 | www.versobooks.com/en-gb
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Pages: 121-123
Published online: 23 May 2024
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith Hamish Hamilton, London 2023, hb, 400pp, £20 ISBN 2928377174194 | www.penguin.co.uk
Yara Rodrigues-Fowler
Pages: 123-124
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Book Review
Rifqa; I Will Not Fold These Maps
Rifqa Mohammed El-Kurd Haymarket Books, New York 2021, pb, 100pp, $16 ISBN 9781642595864 | www.haymarketbooks.org; I Will Not Fold These Maps Mona Kareem. Translated by Sara Elkamel Poetry Translation Centre, London 2023, pb, 66pp, £9 ISBN 9781739894832 | www.poetrytranslation.org
Shivanee Ramlochan
Pages: 125-126
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Book Review
Brother Alive; Chain-Gang All-Stars
Brother Alive Zain Khalid Grove Press, London 2022, pb, 352pp, £9.99 ISBN 9781611854237 | https://atlantic-books.co.uk; Chain-Gang All-Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Harvill Secker, London 2023, hb, 384pp, £18.99 ISBN 9781787303942 | www.penguin.co.uk
D Rudd-Mitchell
Pages: 126-128
Published online: 23 May 2024
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How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners; Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice
How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia Pluto Press, London 2023, pb, 208pp, £16.99 ISBN 9780745347981 | www.plutobooks.com; Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice Michelle Kelly and Claire Westall, eds Routledge, London 2023, hb, 284pp, £130.00 ISBN 9780367616236 | www.routledge.com
Jigisha Bhattacharya
Pages: 129-131
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Black Foam; Rotten Evidence
Rotten Evidence Ahmed Naji. Translated by Katharine Halls McSweeny’s, San Francisco 2023, hb, 263pp, $20 ISBN 9781952119835 | www.mcsweeneys.net; Black Foam Haji Jabir. Translated by Sawad Hussain and Marcia Lynx Qualey Amazon Crossing, USA 2023, hb, 224pp, $28.99 ISBN 9781542034029 | https://amazonpublishing.amazon.com
Elhum Shakerifar
Pages: 131-133
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Bad Diaspora Poems; Heritage Aesthetics
Bad Diaspora Poems Momtaza Mehri Vintage, London 2023, hb, 114pp, £14.99 ISBN 9781787334373 | www.penguin.co.uk; Heritage Aesthetics Anthony Anaxagorou Granta, London 2022, pb, 93pp, £10.99 ISBN 9781915051004 | https://granta.com
Rojbîn Arjen
Pages: 133-135
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Sophie Lewis Verso Books, London 2022, pb, 128pp, £8.99 ISBN 9781839767197 | www.versobooks.com/en-gb
Sophia Siddiqui
Pages: 135-137
Published online: 23 May 2024
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Among the contributors

Among the contributors
Pages: 138-141
Published online: 23 May 2024
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