The new issue of Sine Theta has dropped! This issue is so gorgeous - amidst everything amazing within the pages, I'm particularly excited about 'Gray Starlings', a lovely debut short story by Xinyi Wang (can you believe it's their first time writing in English too)?
I also interview artist Maggie Wong, whom I first met at FAWC (Maggie was visiting her friends José and Cherrie) in 2024. It was so energising and vitalising to talk with Maggie about being a 'red diaper baby' with parents in the League of Revolutionary Struggle in Oakland, about making art, about networks and connections and materiality and boycott, about children and childcare, about language, and more. You can order your copy of the magazine here to read the full issue :)
Also, this one was gestating for a long time: a piece by Amu that assembles quotations and notes from their prison notebooks, originally transcribed and compiled in March 2026, is now out on Abolitionist Futures' blog. I wrote the foreword. With deep thanks to Mariam and to John for making this happen.
As I write, it's been over a full year since Amu's arrest and remand, over a full year since the last time Amu was free. A couple of months ago my friends and I were at a picnic and the sun was setting. We watched the pink spread across the sky, and then we saw it, a small black spot flying low on the horizon—one of the 2 RAF Voyager aircrafts allegedly damaged by the Brize Norton 6.
I don't have anything further to say, no commentary, no description, other than just that we were there, and we saw it, and the sun was setting, and the weather was warming up, it was spring, and Amu was in prison, and still is, and Sam Corner's in prison with an 8 year sentence, and so, so, so many people incarcerated, including Dr. Hussam Abu Sufiya, held captive and tortured by israel.
Eileen Myles: Catch this / honking or the rumbling / of the world.