Struggles over recognition of personhood are rooted in the history of colonialism and private property. Indigenous worldviews of “Our Relations” – the land, and mountains and waters; the sky, sun, moon and stars; the trees, plants and rocks; the birds, […]
A Conversation with Chief Jean-Charles Piétacho Innu Council of Ekuanitshit, Québec Introduction Chief Jean-Charles Piétacho, who has fought for his Innu community and its ancestral territory of Nitassinan for over 30 years, spoke to Serai editor Jody Freeman on December […]
My name is Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand. I was born in 1995 and I live in Montréal. I make drawings, objects and music under the name La Cucurucha. Many of the images I draw have a synchretic component, a mixing […]
Thread The thread was a rope, stretching to the moon, to my dark daughter on that distant shore. Cats, rents, and jobs, insurance, eyelashes, cars. Was I any closer to helping, for all that? Was I any safer from loneliness, […]
What I was missing here All night it snowed love turned white I trampled love underfoot The forest mews tiny scraps of light sway in the trees Love covers the wound the wanting, the marks on the soul We sing […]
Ready For what can’t be known mind and body write poetry, freedom of movement, favourite food, sacrifice. Lead me through lingering rain claps, sun showers. Lead me: by hand, with your voice, by signs if pained through what remains – […]
Blár Cerulean, stamen-like brushstrokes wet on wet blending the colours create three shades of blue not to paint anything ugly or dark uggely, uglike, from Old Norse uggligr a love song within the frame using a palette knife to anchor […]
Knocking the Next We rise to shining life, then turn—— lungs to earth, liver to river, kidneys to constellations; heart of the recent being knocking the next. I am for the dark wood, for the slick, invincible mountain. I am […]
Another word for obstruct The word Yemen is a lemon, in government mouths while the poor covet a vaccine for covid-19. Hospitals strafed silent prisons broken into. I blurt out, war is always public murder, but they won’t let you […]
Collections of Yahia Lababidi’s Verses and Aphorisms: Desert Songs and Learning to Pray Yahia Lababidi describes Desert Songs as “a slender love letter to the deserts of Egypt.” The poems in Arabic with English translations by Osama Esber and photographs […]
