My Blossomed Potted Plant
by Jennifer Saparzadeh,
“My blossomed potted plant/ My moonlit balcony / From you I am alone / Fish out of its home.”
Going Home
by Leena Aboutaleb,
de / construct, literature into spaces, scrawled on finger/bones, between guest beds, tore through across, bloodstained streets
Hypothetical Body Equation (with Cats)
by Nour Kamel,
I went and made you, because everything where I was was too much.
The Sound Of
by Lizzy Vartanian Collier,
Exhibition analyses how sound constructs social identity and space.
Creativity and Imagination
by Priyal Thakkar
We are one of 30 global youth platform partners in the launch of an initiative by @ChimeForChange and @weareirregular to explore gender and our fluid future. In this piece from Irregular Report’s second issue, Priyal ruminates on her poetry and creativity, how this informs her activism and vice versa, and why it's so important to be creative.
Pinched and Prodded
by Lizzy Vartanian Collier,
The struggle of the LGBTQ+ representation in Middle Eastern art might phase Alireza Shojaian—but it doesn’t stop him.
Hamed Says
by Benjamin Stevenson,
“You see that girl
right there? She’s mukhabarat”—
informants for the government."
Suspended Orbit
by Knar Hovakimyan,
"Time flows in cycles for her. And cycles within cycles. The yearly visit to the grave was always a reminder of a reset; she was back at a road already littered with her own footsteps."
Before We Were Banned
by Azmi Haroun,
Khabar Keslan presents six interviews with the curators and artists of the NYC-based exhibition Before We Were Banned alongside this review.
The Beetle
by Shaikha Khalifa
"I do not know the nature I inhabit. I do not know the types of moths that visit my living room at night through my garden.