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.”
Aishatu Ado
Aishatu is an award-winning writer and peace technologist named among "TOP 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics," exploring liberation through literary art, design, and divestment from oppressive systems.
Dignify through Design
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.
Design is Circular
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.
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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.
Dignify through Design
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?
Divest
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.
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A Brief History of Àrokò Cooperative
If you’ve ever wondered who we are or what fuels our work at Àrokò Cooperative, you’re in the right place.