Category: Families

In the early morning of 25 April 1959, about ten masked men wearing white gloves entered the Pearl River County Jail in Poplarville, Mississippi. One of the guards let them in and led them to the cell where 23-year-old Black truck driver Mack Charles Parker, accused of raping a white woman, was being held.¹ According…

Six months after the collapse of a concrete awning at the railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia is in the throes of a general rebellion against the regime of President Aleksandar Vučić. The November tragedy, in which sixteen people lost their lives and two others were maimed, was the final straw and ignited a full-scale…

Two years ago, my body gave out. ‘Burnout’, said the doctor, as he carefully wrote out a note ordering me to stop all professional activities. His look indicated that I would be needing his signature more often. What followed was an arduous process of recovery in which I restlessly searched for a sense of purpose.…

At times coy, at others demonstrative, the male body seemingly has its autonomy covered. Identifying as male comes with certain public assurances: while your genitalia is sacred, you are free to bare all else without reproach. But such liberties don’t necessarily lead to body confidence. Phallocentrism, initially coined to challenge psychoanalysis’s fixation on the phallus…

Opening a dossier in Varlık on ‘Popular culture in flux’, Mutlu Binark’ offers an overview of the hegemony of North American cultural products in the 1970s. According to Binark, an ‘unjust communication network’ was imposed on the Global South for decades. In the 21st century, by contrast, Bollywood, Korean television dramas, K-pop, and Nollywood have…