Featured Authors
Francesca Albanese
Francesca Albanese is an international lawyer specialising in human rights and the Middle East. Since 2022, she has served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. In July 2025, she was sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinising human rights abuses in Palestine.
Anand Gopal
Anand Gopal has exposed the horrors of war in the Middle East. He is one of the few Western journalists to have embedded with the Taliban, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2025. His book No Good Men Among the Living was a finalist for the National Book Award. His writing is unparalleled in finding the beauty of human stories within such desperate situations.
Lara Sheehi
Lara Sheehi is an activist and licensed clinical psychologist. Her work centres on the concept of ‘psychic militancy’ – a psycho-political framework that promotes an unwavering, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial stance against violent power systems. She hosts the podcast Psychic Militancy.
Adam H. Johnson
Adam H. Johnson is a media analyst and co-host of Citations Needed, a podcast about the intersection of media, PR, and power. His work is on the frontlines of exposing the US corporate media’s role in some of the gravest state crimes of our time, including Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Shahed Ezaydi
Shahed Ezaydi is an award-winning culture writer and editor, working at the cutting edge of feminism and politics, heralding a new era for Muslim women in literature. She was a staff writer at Stylist magazine, and the former deputy editor of Aurelia magazine – a platform for the thoughts and feelings of marginalised genders.
Stewart Home
Stewart Home is a legend of counterculture. He is an artist, filmmaker, pamphleteer, art historian and activist, and the author of countless pulp fictions. ‘Anything Stewart Home writes intrigues me… He turns things upside down and shakes them up.’ – Lynne Tillman
M. E. O’Brien
M. E. O’Brien writes on gender and communist theory. She co-edits two groundbreaking magazines, Pinko, on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. She coordinated the New York City Trans Oral History Project, and worked in HIV and AIDS activism and services.
Lola Olufemi
Lola Olufemi is a Black feminist writer, organiser and lecturer. She runs workshops on feminism and political organising in schools and local communities. Seeing feminism as a transformative political project, her activism continually breaks boundaries.