Every morning in dozens of Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, thousands of young Rohingya people wake up with the same hopes that students everywhere carry. They...
In both the street theatre and research, hierarchy is unsettled. The ‘platform’ needs to dissolve. Knowledge does not descend from a raised stage or an academic institution. Knowledge circulates among bodies in proximity and their minds. The actor and the audience blur into one another. The researcher and the community must also do the same.
When Afghan journalist Khadija Haidary fled the Taliban, she never imagined that her writing would reach readers thousands of miles away in China. Yet it did — prompting small but meaningful acts of support that empowered her to move forward amid her uncertain situation. In China, where civil society is tightly regulated and spontaneous cross-border humanitarian support is rare, her letters, which evolved into a book titled “A Letter from an Afghan Woman,” sparked an unexpected cross-border solidarity with the oppressed women from far away. Rather than forming a visible movement, these responses took shape as quiet, individual acts, revealing how solidarity adapts under constraint.
