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XXX, the unknown
The Arabic word tanaaqush (تَناقش, discussion) stems from naqasha, which refers to chiselling a stone. I was pondering these meanings as a tombstone was placed on my mother’s grave in the Aida refugee camp in Palestine, with a chiselled inscription …
We’re still alive, so remove us from memory. Asynchronicity and the Museum in Resistance
As part of ‘Exist, Resist, Return’: A Week of Action for Nakba Day, called for by Publishers for Palestine we are making some content by Palestinian writers freely available on our website. The museum in resistance is not as we …
The Palestinian Pavilion
WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF ART? A Manifesto Against the State of the World In a world where genocide unfolds before our very eyes, shielded by nation-state rhetoric and bolstered by the imperial powers of our times, we bear witness …
Open call: Embodying Resistance
The seventh issue of Errant Journal aims to interrogate the role of the body in strategies of resistance from below. Taking Palestine as a starting point, the ongoing genocide committed by Israel and other colonial powers and the people’s continued …
The Cane Burners by Jamie McGhee
Pitit mwen chèri. My dear daughter. You are doomed. & The black on her skin wouldn’t come off. “Do you want to die here?” Celine dunked her hands into the boiling river, once, twice, scrubbed her palms and wrists and …
Editor’s Note to Issue No. 6
Under capitalism, abstract, intangible and often unintelligible constructs have devastating effects on people and the ecosystems with which they live in relation. Debt is one such construct that permeates our lives at every level, from the geopolitical to the personal, …
Editor’s Note to Issue No. 5
The spring/summer of 2020, as a response to the murder of George Floyd, saw many hopeful changes within the larger discourse about the colonial past and the reverberations of it in the present. I remember feeling exhilarated when I watched …
Editor’s Note to Issue No. 4
Welcome to the fourth issue of Errant Journal. With this issue we tackle the imaginary nature of the nation state, and look into alternative forms of solidarity, community and belonging that are disconnected from or even antagonistic to this form …
Editor’s Note to Issue No. 3
Welcome to the third issue of Errant Journal. With it, we feel that we have passed a long and precarious start-up phase and can say with careful confidence that Errant Journal is here to stay… at least for now. The …
Editor’s Note to Issue No. 2
On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.[1] Welcome to …