@ProfKapadia's article "On the Afterlives of US Forever Wars: Insurgent Aesthetics as a Queer Practice of Freedom" reminds us of the importance of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab artists when reimagining insurgency against the WoT (1/8)

There is ongoing trauma due to the forever war, even as it persists and the US state renders it invisible! (2/8)

COVID-19 has been weaponized by authoritarian regimes, especially the US exacerbated global inequality and injustice. Yet, in the midst of it, we have also found new ways to collectively organize and practice mutual aid. (3/8)

In the midst of the WoT, artists, such as Mariam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh, have created ways to reconstruct our politics outside of the carceral state and engage in more experimental abolitionist tactics. (4/8)

These art pieces serve to illuminate the frailty of the current global order and render what is (un)seen as objective and omniscient as constructed and failing. They allow us to see beyond imperial and colonial institutions. (5/8)

The Index of the Disappeared uses the data from CIA black site prisons and redacted documents to bring to light the realities of torture at the hands of the US empire (6/8)

They use "warm data," an aesthetic insurgent strategy that humanizes the cold, impersonal government documents recounting tortures and deaths in military prisons. It counters surveillance by asking questions about who the person is beyond demographics (7/8)

The Trump era is a harbinger of the decline of US empire. Now is the time to start engaging in other ways of knowing and living outside of the colonial empire by looking to the creative practices of conceptual artists. (8/8)