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Erotic Art & Fabulous Defiance: Reclaiming the Body through Art

By Shuddhashar / Listen and Watch, Webinar / 2 minutes of reading / Agency, Feminism, Political art, Queer, Subversive Art

This webinar brings together Tamar Ballard and Ibtisam Ahmed with moderator Afra Sampreety to explore how subversive art reclaims the body, desire, and selfhood in Black feminist and queer contexts. Discussing Black women’s music and queer catwalk, they center practices that do not seek permission or validation but instead boldly celebrate intimacy and pageantry. Together,

Girmitiya Songs: Memory, Pain, and Resistance

By Shreeti Shubham / Issue 46, Subversive Art / 11 minutes of reading / Art, Folk music, Girmitiyas, Heritage, India, labour, Memory, migration, Music, Subversive Art, Tradition, Trauma

The identity and cultural memories of the Girmitiyas, who were forced into indentured labour, are being contested today, often to suit present-day cultural and political narratives.

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What WE Have

By Adler Dills / Issue 46, Subversive Art, Magazine / 5 minutes of reading / Art, Environment, Humanity, Nature, poetry, Subversive Art

WE have solutions. The most ingenious solutions fall within our means, to suit our problems, in harmony with the natural world and breathe.

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Undoing Oscar Wilde’s Edits: How Fanfiction Restores What Victorian Censorship Erased

By Mahalakshmi Gururaj / Issue 46, Subversive Art, Magazine / 11 minutes of reading / Canon, Fanfiction, Oscar Wilde, Queer Love, Subversion, Subversive Art

As a community-oriented form of cultural resistance that transgresses the temporal and spatial boundaries of the canon, fanfiction allows readers to reclaim stories that mainstream media refuses to produce.

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Love, Not Trauma: How Tamil Cinema Reclaims Dalit Art Through Sound

By Laya Yazhini Sivakumar / Issue 46, Subversive Art, Magazine / 10 minutes of reading / Caste, Hierarchy, Intouchability, Manjanathi Puranam, Music, Oppression, Politics, Resistance, Subversion, Subversive Art

Both a love song and a political statement, the “Manjanathi Puranam” refuses to choose between artistic beauty and political resistance, insisting they’re inseparable.

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Anarchy in Madrid: Pepi, Luci, Bom as Political Manifesto

By Afra Sampreety / Issue 46, Subversive Art, Magazine / 11 minutes of reading / Art, Capitalism, Culture, Film, Film Critic, Gender, Morality, Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Cinema, Subversion, Subversive Art

Pedro Almodóvar’s film Pepi, Luci, Bom functions as both a cinematic experiment and a manifesto for the Movida ethos, celebrating everything excess and the radical possibility of reshaping identity in the wake of repression.

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Being Black on Pluto

By Corey Miles & Karizma Greene / Issue 46, Subversive Art, Magazine / 11 minutes of reading / Atlanta, Black women, Pluto, Rap Music, Subversive Art, trap music, US

A deep listening to Atlanta rapper Pluto shows how her sound reshapes Black girlhood, time, and survival through bass-heavy imagination rather than protest.

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The End Of Black Aesthetics As I’ve Known It

By Anthony Kwame Harrison / Issue 46, Subversive Art, Magazine / 12 minutes of reading / Aesthetics, blackness, Epistemological Racism, Signifyin(g), Subversive Art

Academia is sometimes upheld as a place to explore new possibilities and challenge the status quo. In this eulogy to his Black Aesthetics course, Anthony Kwame Harrison laments the dwindling space for subversive Black expression in contemporary universities.

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Fabulous Fabulations: Brown Empowerment on the Queer Catwalk

By Ibtisam Ahmed / Issue 46, Subversive Art, Magazine / 9 minutes of reading / Art, Bangladesh, Fashion, Marginalised, Muslin, Queer, Queer Catwalks, South Asis, Stereotypes, Subversive Art, United Kingdom

Queer catwalks empower the marginalised on a personal level and set the stage for performance work that carries on the fabulousness of multiply marginalised heritages.

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“‘Callin’ Out My Own Name’: Black Women’s Music, Sexual Agency, and Sounds of Pleasure

By Tamar Ballard / Issue 46, Subversive Art, Magazine / 10 minutes of reading / Agency, Art, Black Femininity, Music, Racism, Sexism, Sexuality, Subversive Art

Depathologizing Black women’s sexuality should involve acknowledging Black women’s capacity to affirm their sexuality for and between themselves.

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The Inhale and Exhale of Art

By Francesca Sobande / Issue 46, Subversive Art, Magazine / 11 minutes of reading / AI, AI Slop, Art, Creativity, Emotions, Music, Punk, Subversive Art

Art is breathwork. No matter the medium and the individuality of its creator(s), all art starts out as a series of inhales and exhales.

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