As a queer intersectional feminist platform, Futuress strives to be a home for the people, histories, and perspectives that have been—and still often remain—underrepresented, oppressed, and ignored.
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Chakana Informatics
Embodied knowledge and relational protocols for digital designing.
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When My Father Asked Fá
Listening, co-authorship, and choice in a West African wisdom tradition.
#Designing Resistance
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More Words, More Transformations: Reimagining Pain Metaphors
Workshopping new languages for chronic pain.
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A Softly Humming Defiance
Strategies of trans care in DIY hormone therapy.
#Complaint Collective
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“An Opportunity to Challenge the Status Quo”
Camille Circlude on institutional transformation with the Teaching to Transgress* Research Group.
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#Feminist Curricula
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Creating Feminist Paths with Mood Boards
Suggestions for an intersectional feminist citational practice to visual references.
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Automated Precarity and Commodified Time
How AI changes work—from unjust Uber algorithms to psychologically harmful clickwork.
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Feeling the Museum: Towards Multi-sensory Mediation
How dominant practices rooted in ableism exclude tactile knowledge and Blind perception in museums.
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#TRAVESSIAS—CROSSINGS
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KUNHÃ PY’A GUASU
A Guarani Nhandewa anthropologist writes on the courage of Indigenous women and the wisdom of the body.
#Politics of Display
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Dissenting Voices
Typography’s role in the Lebanese sectarian protests.
#TRAVESSIAS—CROSSINGS
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Taming the Chalk
A Xakriabá activist reclaims the enduring power of clay, genipap, and chalk for a decolonized education.
#Letter from the Editors
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The Promise of Translation
Futuress’s editors reflect on the feminist politics of carrying stories across affective, geographical, and linguistic borders.
#Vulnerable Observers
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I Don’t Want to Quote Anyone but Myself
A lyrical resistance blooming where exile and memory intertwine, reclaiming the self in full.
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As a queer intersectional feminist platform, Futuress strives to be a home for the people, histories, and perspectives that have been—and still often remain—underrepresented, oppressed, and ignored.
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“Anthropology Is a Way of Being”
Farah Hallaba on bridging academia and community through participatory research.
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“Stretching the Meaning of Public Space”
Nadia Mounier on documenting Cairo, gender politics, and the tensions of image-making in a changing Egypt.
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Kusvikirwa: A Decolonial Spirit
Reconnecting with the past through ancestral practices in Zimbabwe.
#Designing Resistance
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On Rehearsing Access
Making space for non-normative time with Access Riders.
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Urban Recyclers: On Taking over the Means of Production
How cartoneros in Buenos Aires paved the way to social and environmental sustainability.
#Feminist Curricula
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Navigating the Culture of Critique
Why Indian design education needs a plural understanding of decolonization.
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A Beautiful Mess: Moving Towards Non-binary Language
Transcending hegemonic expression and embracing typographic activism with the Bye Bye Binary collective.
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Designing Belief: A Journey into the Sacred Art of Phrakhreūang
How tradition, history, and social development converge in Thailand’s amulet culture.
Feminism. Design. Politics. Where these three intersect, you will find Futuress.
#Objects of Interest
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A Tribute to Feira Do Pau
A stroll through Maputo’s Ebony Market and the relational power of Mozambican design.
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A House and a Hole
How industrial exploitation and extractivism destroy lands, bodies, and architectural practices in Morocco.
#Earthshaking
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“Sustainability Without Class Struggle is Just Gardening”
Victoria Nascimento Veiga’s journey toward socially and environmentally conscious fashion.
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#Incomplete Compendia
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An Incomplete Directory of Feminist Bookstores
From fresh new shops to decade old strongholds, these are our community’s favourite places to get books and make friends.
#Politics of Display
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Pastel-Coated Violence
How online culture aestheticizes militarism and oppression through sexualization and hyper-cuteness.
#TRAVESSIAS—CROSSINGS
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We Belong to the Land
Insights from a quilombola thinker on Brazil’s state-sanctioned violence and the power of oral traditions.
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أحْرُف وكَلِمَاتْ وقِصَصْ A Multi-Script Type Design Program
Imagining a playground for collective archiving, researching and letter-making.
#Designing Resistance
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On Caste: The Roots of Discrimination in Indian Design
What using a debrahaminizing lens tells us about power relations and discrimination in the Indian design practice and education.
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Who Gets to Design Arabic Typography?
A pledge for politicizing Arabic type design, overturning exclusionary notions of ‘quality,’ and challenging classist gatekeeping to the profession.
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A Canon Misbound: Feminist Lessons in Print
The lack of written accounts about Norwegian graphic design is a chance to question norms and explore non-traditional historiographic methods.
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Multiple Feminisms, Collective Struggles
How Argentina’s 35th Plurinational Meeting of Women, Lesbians, Trans, Travesti, Intersex, Bisexual, and Non-Binary shapes feminisms in 2022.
#Vulnerable Observers
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Parda: Of Roots, Curls and Race
A Brazilian’s entangled journey to Black awareness in a whitewashed world.
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MOTHER TONGUE / מאַמע-לשון / MAME LUSHEN
What designing an interscriptual typeface tells us about legibility, Jewish visual culture and the feeling of inbetweenship.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Bronze-Verdigris: a Colonial History
Seeking liberty in stolen bowls, historical mansions, deadly wallpapers, and fugitive greens.
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#Politics of Display
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Real Activism or Clicks without a Cause?
Our social media experiences are not neutral. How can we engage without fuelling a platform conducive to performative allyship?
