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NEW ISSUE: Where quilts and baskets carry histories, libraries vanish, speech uncovers politics, and Palestinian art resists, the August issue of Pandora Curated traces the quiet revolutions transforming our world.

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Pandora Curated - August 2024 Inside the Issue: - About Curated - Quilts, Gardens and Weaving: Inheriting Knowledge Without Words (Cover Story) - Accent, Access and Authority: Language’s Hidden Politics - What We Are Watching This Month - The Hollowing of Libraries - Commodifying Streets and Concealing Community - Occupied Imaginations: The Role of Art in Palestinian Resistance - Reads from August - The People vs. Amazon - A Lover’s Note to Uncomfortable Truths: Cleopatra and Frankenstein Reviewed - The August Vinyl - When Cameras Can't See - Behind the Scenes
August 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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From subversive thrillers to gothic-pop odysseys, Pandora’s entertainment staff weighs in on the films and albums that have defined 2025 so far. Here are our mid-year favourites, spotlighting the boldest, strangest and most unforgettable works of the year.
August 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Understanding range expansion as forced migration allows us to see the displacement of both human communities and more-than-human species as connected, both shaped by the impacts of anthropogenic climate change and its underlying causes.
August 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Europe’s Digital Future Risks Leaving Rural Communities Behind - What do the experts say?

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#EurpoeanRuralCommunities #TechInEurope #EU
July 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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June 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Algorithms reward what’s beautiful, legible and easily consumed. We’re forced to refine and aestheticise until even our resistance is marketable and pleased by trends or commercial value.

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#SocialMedia #TikTok #Instagram
June 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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The Ecology of Uprooting, Forced Migration and the More-Than-Human World

A Thread 🧵

✍️ Tatenda Dlali

Illustration by Vasundhara Srinivas

#ClimateChange #RangeExpansion #Migration #Migrants
June 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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What Are We Working For? Alienation and the Modern Struggle for Meaning

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✍️ Harriet Sanderson

#Alienation #ModernWork #Spatiality
What Are We Working For? Alienation and the Modern Struggle for Meaning
June 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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From the language of "riots" to the slow institutional erasure of Urdu, Gujarat has become not just a case of communal violence but of calculated forgetting.

✍️Vaishnavi Manju Pal

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June 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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We live in a culture, a society that is constantly trying to get us to buy things. Recognizing sharing, lending, borrowing, and reusing as political acts is helpful for the mass resistance.

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#Libraries #Laundromats #FleaMarkets
June 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Discover how everyday spaces, time, and stories transform communities and quietly shape the world we live in — here’s the May 2025 issue of Pandora Curated!

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#FeministArt #Lorde #PalestineCinema #JoylandFilm #BaselAdra #EdwardSaid #RotterdamArt
May 2025 issue of Pandora Curated
May 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Pandora’s Vinyl

Sufjan Stevens: Javelin

Stevens’ Javelin is an elegy, a confession, and a fragile bridge between despair and redemption.

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#SufjanStevens #JavelinAlbum #IndieMusic
May 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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The World Trump Refuses to Hear

✍️ Arianna Feola

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#Trump #Isolationism #UnitedStates

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April 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The global rise of right-wing gender discourse and advocacy is a testament to the fact that there is no monolithic gender system that exists in any given society.

✍️ Vaishnavi Manju Pal

Cover by Vasundhara Srinivas

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April 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The Metaphor of Grass in the Poetics and Politics of Resistance

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#Poetry #Politics #Palestine
The Metaphor of Grass in the Poetics and Politics of Resistance
April 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Born Lucky? Rethinking Citizenship in a Globalized World

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#Citizenship #Immigrants #Deportations #Trump
Born Lucky? Rethinking Citizenship in a Globalized World
March 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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We often think of environmental destruction in war as an unintended consequence—but that’s wrong. Environmental warfare is deliberate.

Dictators, policymakers, and settler-colonialists know exactly what they’re doing when they turn land into rubble. Their goal is erasure.

#Climate #ClimateChange
March 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Sudan has filed a case against the UAE (at the International Court of Justice, alleging the Gulf nation’s complicity in acts of genocide against the Masalit ethnic group.

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#SudanLawsuit #SudanUAE
Sudan Sues UAE at the ICJ Over Alleged Genocide Complicity
March 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Matcha lattes are everywhere now and only rising in popularity—but for how long can the world savour it? Japan’s fine green tea is facing unprecedented shortages as global demand surges. Even locals are struggling to get their hands on high-quality matcha.

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#MatchaShortage
From Teas to Lattes: Will Matcha Survive? Illustration by Mukta Desai
March 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Pandora Takes on the Oscars: Our Reviews of Some of This Year’s Best Picture Contenders

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#Oscars2025 #Wicked #Anora #TheSubstance #Conclave #Wicked #EmiliaPerez
March 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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The Architecture of a Social Crisis

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#ClimateChange #SocialCrisis #ClimateEmergency

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February 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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REVIEW: Edward Berger’s Conclave isn’t your typical Vatican drama.

The Real Housewives of St.Peter's: A Conclave Review

#Conclave #RalphFiennes #StanleyTucci @FocusFeatures @conclavethefilm

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February 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The Hague Group has pledged to back ICC investigations into Israel, block illegal arms shipments, and coordinate economic and diplomatic measures against Palestinian rights violations. (9/9)

#ICC #Palestine #HumanRights

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February 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Amidst Trump’s rhetoric, The Hague Group—a coalition of nine nations, including South Africa, Bolivia, Cuba, and Namibia—has emerged to hold Israel and its supporters accountable for potential war crimes. (8/9)

#Hague #SouthAfrica

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February 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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The UN's 1994 definition of ethnic cleansing describes a policy to remove a group by violent, terrorizing means. Trump's statements align with this, effectively endorsing the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza. (7/9)

#UN #Palestinians

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February 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM