Discord Decides: How Nepal's Youth Turned Gaming Infrastructure into Architecture For Liberation

145,000 young Nepalis turned Discord into a digital parliament and elected their country's first woman interim prime minister. Design reflects the values of those who wield it, not those who built it.

Matricide

On July 4th 2025, America murdered its safety net: Medicaid gutted, food stamps slashed, Arctic drilled—all for billionaire tax cuts. "The cupboards testify: nothing grows in hunger's house.”

When’s the last time you dreamed? Collaging on a Budget

Zariah Cameron continues her adventures in creativity, all through her experiences at the local library.

The Most Notable Album Covers of July, from Jim Legxacy to Clipse: Cover Stories

Welcome to Cover Stories, a monthly column celebrating and shading anything and everything related to design and music.

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Our first collection of products is available now! Read on for more details about how everything came together.

How Van Newman is Divesting From Big Tech, Artificial Urgency, and the U.S.A.

We spoke to Van Newman about divestment as a practice and a source of joy in an increasingly cruel world.

Want Some Joy on a Budget? Sounds Like You Need a Library Card

Zariah Cameron kicks off her column on how to get the most out of your library card.

Juneteenth 2025: The Fire This Time

You want to know what Juneteenth means in 2025? It means we're still breathing despite every plan to make us die. Every law designed to break us, every vote they tried to steal. Every knee pressed to our necks, every wound they wouldn't heal.

Movie Theaters as Modern Underground Railroads: How 'Sinners' Created Freedom Spaces in Plain Sight

For 137 minutes, "Sinners" transforms theaters into Underground Railroad stations—where Black truth flows freely. Darkened spaces become corridors of breath. Tears fall uncensored. And for a moment, liberation exists in plain sight.

Welcome to ÀROKÒ.WORLD

Welcome to the ÀROKÒ.WORLD, a home for critique, reflection, and conversation at the intersection of Blackness and design. Brought to you by Àrokò Cooperative.

Totoro, Tanks & the Theft of Wonder: Ghibli Aesthetics in the Age of AI

When nostalgia becomes a weapon, truth blurs. As AI-generated Ghibli-style imagery floods the political arena, we must ask: What happens when the visual language of peace is hijacked to launder state violence?

THE STORM THEY NAMED DEMOCRACY

The debut of the “Verses in the Wake” poetry column tears through illusion with lyrical fury. It strips democracy of its costume, revealing empire’s raw face—where ballots bury dreams and language launders violence. This is poetry as reckoning. As resistance.