Burning out brightly
Stay tuned for 2023
Newsletter
A collection of 21 issues
Iran erupts in feminist protest
Why are Iranians in the streets, how is it being framed in international media, and how are people outside the country boosting the signal?
Might in the 'right' hands
Mexico, assault weapons, and the international re-order
How we might have cared for each other
A pandemical plea
Bottleneck and sieve
Mexico as a destination
The Galleon and the Good Hardworking People
Dear friends,
As three-year-old Evelina* has grown, a friend of her dad’s, thinking that she looks Asian, has come to jokingly call her ‘la coreana’, the Korean girl.
Evelina is a daughter of the state of Guerrero in southwestern Mexico, far from Seoul and Pyongyang. But poor racial approximations
The Social Dilemma
Dear friends,
Happy new year!
It’s kinda funny that one of the cultural products of 2020 was called The Social Dilemma, because the same name might easily be put to the ongoing deliberations (/straight-up actual fist-fights) around how we all live with the covid19 pandemic, wherever we are in
On living
+ the uses of Power
Hiatus
~~~it’s a pandemic~~~
Stigma as a pre-existing condition
Love in the time of COVID-19*
Dear friends,
How’s your coronavirus anxiety. Your coronanxiety. Your crowning anxiety? This bad attempt at rapid-fire punning should tell you enough about where mine’s at. From my apartment on the roof of a some 80-year-old building in a working-class neighbourhood in a central borough of Mexico City, I’
Mexico: Local militias are training children
+ Arab women reporting the Arab world
Trapped on the beach: Australia burns
A special edition.
Jungle Princes and other white whales
Also, what happened in Bolivia?
From, to, of
The locations of international reporting
Reporting the catastrophe
As the Amazon burns, who are our correspondents?
Who is foreign correspondence for?
Dear friends,
At a shelter for migrants in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula, right near the border with Guatemala, my conversation with Alejandro, a man from Honduras, is interrupted by Elsa, a fellow national of Alejandro’s.
“Mira” (“Look”), she says, pointing at her phone. We look.
It’s
How does someone consent...
... to be part of an international news story?
Samba and sensibility
"... makes me wonder if the Western gaze is really something people can get rid of."
Parsing risk and making deadline
A freelance foreign correspondent field note
'You have to tell people what's happening here'
Introducing The Troubled Region