FLUX: An Evening in Dissent

A selection of readings by Tarfia Faizullah served as a gentle, immersive break between panels. Faizullah read excerpts from her poetry collections Registers of Illuminated Villages and Seam and the experimental poem Alien of Extraordinary Ability, which we published earlier that year.

“Is this a museum or a border? where there / is a border, does there need to be patrol?” Faizullah muses in Alien of Extraordinary Ability, a startling and experimental work shifting slowly from a visa alien classification by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) federal agency to the vicissitudes of borders, abuse, and plunder simultaneously intimate and global: speaking with one voice, then with many, often within a single verse or phrase.

Jaishri Abichandani's Art Studio Tour

Kshama Sawant & Nikil Saval: A panel on US left electoralism, COVID19, recent victories, & lasting problems.

Natasha Noorani's Live Performance of "Choro"

Bhavik Lathia & Jaya Sundaresh: A panel on the US Left & its relationship with media in the wake of Bernie Sanders' loss.

Rajiv Mohabir: Poetry Reading

SAAG, So Far: A Panel with the Editors

DJ Kiran: A Celebratory Set