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.
Stories
We publish a wide range of stories on a weekly basis, including articles and essays produced by fellowship participants, transcripted lectures, and original pieces by the Futuress team, often in collaboration with partner organizations.
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#Objects of Interest
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Hey Woman, Are You a Roti? Patriarchy and Indian Flatbread
What the making and unmaking of one of India’s most celebrated foods tell us about traditional female roles, unpaid labor, and revolution
#Living Archives
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Embargoed Memories
Reckoning with the Portuguese violent colonial past through fragments of my family’s heirloom.
#Designing Resistance
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“Anger is my Motto”
Tereza Bettinardi on design publishing, open education, and the micro-politics of daily practice.
#Living Archives
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Circling the Circassian Identity
Chronicles of nationless-ness, scattered souls, and fragmented selves.
#Designing Resistance
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My Grandma is Not a Cyborg
On the oppression of everyday objects, and hacking the design gap.
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#Earthshaking
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A Water Story
Tracing the ebbs and flows of India’s shifting aquatic ecosystems
#Designing Resistance
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One NO Leads To a Thousand More
Tear gas and transnational solidarity: a letter to Asma, the defiant customs worker at the Port of Suez.
#TRAVESSIAS—CROSSINGS
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Becoming Savage
A Guarani Mbya leader on environmental activism, food autonomy, and why we should all challenge the concept of “civilization.”
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#Feminist Curricula
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Institutional Frictions
Reflecting on the possibilities and challenges of bringing activism into the design classroom
#Earthshaking
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When a Stone Says No
Following willful stones and the creative potential of refusal against cultural colonialism.
#Living Archives
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(Re)claiming Archives: استعادة الأرشيف
A palace of memories for collective imagination
قصر للذاكرة الجماعية والأحلام العامة لتتذكرها وتتخيلها
#Epistemic Activism
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“The War Is inside Us”
How can we even begin to understand the conflict in Ukraine?
#Living Archives
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Flat-Packed History
Disassembling simplified narratives and recovering anti-imperialist histories in Northern Ireland.
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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.
#Living Archives
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A Race Against Time
How the digital gallery Swatch Bharat is documenting the rapidly disappearing native Indian aesthetic.
#Living Archives
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“Please Say More”
Bec Wonders on the Vancouver Women’s Library, the legacy of feminist archives, and the complex history of female conflict.
#Designing Resistance
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A Designerly Inventory
Provocations to elicit questions, prompt critical thinking and help designers reconfigure their discipline.
#Feminist Curricula
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A Critical Statement
Why I became a product designer who does not want to design products.
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#Living Archives
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Named After Men
Colonial exploitation and egocentric bragging at the roots of the botanical sciences.
#Politics of Display
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Yemanjá, the Whitewashed Orisha
Unpacking Brazilian diasporic memories and aspects of structural racism through an iconographic analysis.
#Feminist Curricula
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“Teach What You Need to Learn”
A conversation about the Swedish Master program critically addressing visual standards and promoting “norm creativity.”
#Epistemic Activism
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A Rejection of the Term “Vernacular”
An analysis of the colonizing word coined for the sake of othering design languages that dare to challenge Eurocentric norms.
Feminism. Design. Politics. Where these three intersect, you will find Futuress.
#Living Archives
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Chasing Images
In search of the Black aesthetic and my own identity via Louise E. Jefferson.
#Vulnerable Observers
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Living an Immigrant Life
Settling and unsettling experiences of an Argentinian designer living abroad.
#Politics of Display
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Reflejos Ajenos
The museum, national identity and the impossibility of classifying the intangible.
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#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Gold
Fighting for existence in the wake of stolen wealth, toxic metals, gilded bureaucrats and golden visas.
#Vulnerable Observers
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minimal id entity
Bodies and selves: Reflections on visual coding and identity by Dior Thiam.
#Earthshaking
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#Fashion #SustainableFashion #FashionFutures
Debunking hashtags to imagine generative fashion systems in times of ecological collapse.
#Living Archives
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Not a Matter of the Past
How lesbian feminist tactics and strategies can help us overcome struggles of today.
#Designing Resistance
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Making Room
Transforming homes from sites of carcerality into spaces for abolitionist imagination.
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#Earthshaking
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Un-sustaining Sustainability?
Tracing the colonial origins of India’s rising “sustainable” fashion industry
#Vulnerable Observers
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Imaginations of Care
Curator Keyna Eleison making a case for expanding knowledges.
#Epistemic Activism
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Once an Assistant, Always an Assistant
How AI representation is stuck in the gendered past.
#Epistemic Activism
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Wokefishing
The pretensive premise of progressive views, and the false activism in the fashion industry.
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#Complaint Collective
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Does Design Care?
Is “care” just lip service to a new buzzword in design discourse?