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2021: Year in Review
Protean was honored to feature the work of dozens of talented writers, poets, and artists this year, both in print and online. Here’s a selection of our publications from 2021.
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Why we’re asking for your support.
The editors fill you in on the magazine’s solvency, our plans for the future, and why we could use your help on Patreon to help sustain our operations.
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We’re halfway to our Kickstarter goal. Order our print edition—with a bonus free art print!
Our third print edition, Breathing Room, is now available for order. If you haven’t yet picked up your copy, pre-ordering through our Kickstarter is the only way to do so. We’re halfway to our fundraising goal—help us get all the way there! We’re also adding a bonus offer: those who order at tiers that include…
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2020: Year in Review
Protean was honored to feature the work of dozens of talented writers, poets, and artists this year, both in print and online. Here’s a selection of our publications from 2020.
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Protean Pirate Radio Ep. 8: The EndSARS Movement w/Comrade Sango from The Movement for African Emancipation
Today we’re sitting down with Sango, a comrade who has been on the frontlines in the battle against police brutality in the ongoing uprising in Nigeria. We dug into the SARS units of Nigeria, discussed the EndSARS movement and began to imagine what a brighter future might look like. You can learn more about The Movement…
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Submissions Call – Protean Issue 3: Breathing Room
The Italian communist philosopher Franco “Bifo” Berardi devoted his 2018 book Breathing to our “contemporary condition of breathlessness”—a condition which has only grown more acute in the years since its publication. Berardi frames the act of breathing as “a vibrational search to attune oneself to one’s environment.” Yet to do so in this era would…
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Protean Pirate Radio: Ep. 6, Planting the Seeds of Militant Labor Organizing at Dandelion Cafe
On this episode of Protean Pirate Radio, Kyle and Mel sit down with the former workers of the Dandelion Community Cafe, The Seeds, where they walk us through their fight to unionize their local Orlando, FL cafe. You’ll hear from Travis, Bob, and Julia as they tell us how they and their fellow workers came…
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Statement on Protean’s Relationship with Kickstarter
During the one-month run of our recent Kickstarter campaign, where many of our generous readers were kind enough to pitch in and help us create our second issue, we were confronted with some disturbing news. Kickstarter is ostensibly a “public benefit corporation,” and in the past it has prided itself on its adherence to ethical…
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Notified Off The Wagon
by The Collective This article appears in our first print issue, Pattern Machines. The on-demand delivery technology boom, the latest spawn of the gestational revolutions of the app-driven gig-economy, is in full swing. Yet alcoholism and alcohol abuse are already serious problems that are poised to be exacerbated by becoming horrific bedfellows with digital addictions.
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