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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#Feminist Findings
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“What Do You Think History Is?”
A brief conversation with Liza Cowan, editor of 1970s lesbian separatist periodical DYKE A Quarterly.
#Complaint Collective
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Calling Out Dutch Art Institutions
An anonymous Instagram account cries for accountability in the Dutch art and design scene. What happens next?
#Feminist Curricula
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Disrupting Design with Capital “D”
Designer and educator Ramon Tejada on embracing your own voice, asking uncomfortable questions and making spaces in design education.
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Torn in Two Directions
The journal making space for Muslim women’s voices during France’s notorious “veil affair.”
#Designing Resistance
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Refugees Welcome?
Challenging structural racism and apathy with illustrative storytelling.
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#Complaint Collective
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Oh, Dear Diversity
A poem recalling memories of arrival, confrontations, and healing.
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Another Aspekt of Feminism
The 1990s journal that made
feminist writing available in Slovakia for the first time.
#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Blue
Bolting a chain of exploitation, from hardy rocky plants, to deep indigo dyes, and monumental stones.
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The Courage to Take Space
What can mapping the 1970s Women’s Movement in Germany tell us about feminism today?
#Objects of Interest
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An Accidental Game of Telephone
How a group of women designed the Black Panther logo.
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A Writer Is a Woman Who Writes
The ways Iowa City’s Common Lives/Lesbian Lives attracted its various voices.
#Feminist Curricula
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Histories Neglected by History
The textbook closing the gap on the history of Arab graphic design.
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Whose Agenda?
The complex, contradictory first decade of South Africa’s academic journal about gender and activism.
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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.
#Designing Resistance
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Against Performative Positivity
Designer, researcher and educator Danah Abdulla on consumer capitalism, complacent convenience, political ‘wokeness’, and why we should all become design dissenters.
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Financing Feminism Through Beads and Brioche
In the late 70s in Paris, an underground salon disguised itself as a tearoom
to smuggle subversive ideas.
#Vulnerable Observers
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Soul Consuming
Researcher and designer Ann Kern talks about the difficulties of 2020, the toll of doing political design projects, and how she learned to say “No.”
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Every One Page
A poem honoring the person who scanned all 27 issues of Heresies magazine.
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Finding Serendipity
Starting a feminist history of Swiss graphic design by calling up a neighbor.
#Vulnerable Observers
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Emotional Labor, Support Structures, and the Walls in the Way
A conversation with (some members of) Decolonising Design, a group founded in 2016 by eight design researchers, artists, and activists, stemming from the Global South.
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Is It Sexy or Satire?
How a British publishing empire capitalized on the women’s movement in the late 60s.
#Earthshaking
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A Bridge Between Many Worlds
Industrial designer Iskander Guetta talks about learning from Marrakech, Bangalore, and beyond.
Feminism. Design. Politics. Where these three intersect, you will find Futuress.
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A Many-Headed Monster
Comparing the oppression and empowerment of Asian American women in magazine Gidra and movie Crazy Rich Asians.
#Complaint Collective
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Diversity Issues
Teachers and students voice their grievances around discrimination in Swiss design schools.
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To All My Sisters Inside,
How lesbian arts journal Sinister Wisdom falls into the hands (and minds) of womxn loving womxn in prison.
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#Contra-Colonial Colors
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Red
Tracing the bloodline of an ink from sixteenth century Abya Yala to the National Gallery in London.
#Objects of Interest
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When a House is Not a Home
The design of matchbox houses in South Africa and the challenges of COVID-19.
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“Every Book We Do is Special”
Urvashi Butalia on co-founding India’s first feminist press.
#Epistemic Activism
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No Time to Lose
Remembering trans and travestis lives and politics in Brazil. An incomplete timeline of an ongoing struggle.
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The Proverbial Cat of Publishing
On the appearances and disappearances of a New Orleans newspaper for women.
#Letter from the Editors
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Futuress Beginnings
An online magazine on the politics of design, a community space for transnational solidarity.
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More Than Just a Typo
Looking back at the 1930s Tunisian feminist journal Leïla, starting with its header.
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Finding Community in the Past
Discovering a 1980s San Francisco newsletter for and by Asian/Pacific lesbians.
