Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism & Translation

27/11/2024

Friends! is having a fall launch party, and the brilliant Jason Rigas, translator of Jazra Khaleed's epic "Revolving Doors," will be reading. Buy tickets, support poets and translators, and feel just the tiniest bit better about the world....

23/11/2024

zines under construction 🏗
icymi, the first half of Jazra Khaleed's "Revolving Doors" is available online - see link in bio!

if you missed our fundraiser, a very limited number of zines will be available for purchase when assembly is finished. check back here in the coming weeks for more info!

28/09/2024

Thank you to our friends and supporters for getting us more than halfway to our $1,000 fundraising goal for new projects in 2025! Donors to the campaign will receive a handmade accordion zine edition of Chechnyan-born, Athens-based poet Jazra Khaleed’s “Revolving Doors” — a long-form cut-up that splices together tweets, news coverage, and antifascist writing detailing Greece’s “revolving door” policy on Middle Eastern and African migrants. We’ll be closing the campaign on October 1st—and on October 10th, is releasing a new and expanded edition of Khaleed’s anthology THE LIGHT THAT BURNS US (available for preorder now). It’s not too late to support this initiative and others like it—read more at our Chuffed campaign: https://chuffed.org/project/barricades-next-chapter

29/08/2024

An excerpt from poem no. 16 in Jazra Khaleed's "Revolving Doors," translated from the Greek by Jason Rigas, photo by Silvia Tsompanaki
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The entire 36-poem cut-up (check out Khaleed's compositional method on our blog, link in bio!) will be available soon as an accordion zine in limited distribution (check out our fundraiser -- link in bio -- to get yours!)
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Then check out for an expanded anthology of Khaleed's work, forthcoming this October!

22/08/2024

We've been posting Jazra Khaleed's long-form cut-up "Revolving Doors" in bits and pieces throughout this month. This exceprt is from poem 12 of 36, photo by Silvia Tsompanaki. Translation by Jason Rigas.
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Khaleed's poem splices together tweets, news coverage, and antif@scist writing detailing Greece's "revolving door" policy on Middle Eastern and African migrants, "a policy that dictates that migrants are illegal and thus devalues their labor. Migrants in Greece are deliberately left undocumented and work for meager wages in dehumanizing workplaces until they are eventually rounded up by police, beaten, incarcerated, and deported. Many deportees return, and the process...begins again." (from Khaleed's intro)
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We're making accordion zines of the complete poem. Check out our fundraiser (link in bio), and we'll send you one!
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Poems 1-12 are on our web forum now, along with a list of sources used in the cut-up and the pattern used to construct it, plus Khaleed's entire intro.
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And check out who are publishing an expanded anthology of Khaleed's work in October!

15/08/2024

Poems 7-9 of Jazra Khaleed's "Revolving Doors" is now live on Ramparts (link in bio!). In this long-form cut-up, Khaleed draws on tweets, news reporting, and antifascist writing to put into relief the violence of borders in discourse and policy.
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This violence -- de-exceptionalized, rendered overall less visible by its everydayness, exacted slowly through "policy" -- exists on a continuum with recent anti-migrant violence taking place on the streets in the UK, despite apparent differences.
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More poems in the series forthcoming here, and more from Khaleed in October from

14/08/2024

A reminder that you can support our efforts to change gears into a project-based press (and get perks for doing so!) at the link below. We're incredibly grateful for the nearly $300 we've received in donations, and we're hoping to make it to our $1,000 goal by September! Please consider giving a donation (every little bit helps!) or sharing with your networks.

https://chuffed.org/project/barricades-next-chapter

Barricade is beginning an exciting new chapter: we are putting our annual print volume on pause to devote the whole of our labors to issues-based and thematic projects!
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With the ongoing genocide in Gaza and increasing fascistic actions from the highest levels of governments around the world, we are changing our model to be able to bring you more contemporary writing in translation and more new kinds of original wiritng addressed to the exigencies of our shared present.
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Barricade is an autonomous, volunteer-run collective, and we rely on you! Please consider donating to our Chuffed campaign.
https://chuffed.org/project/barricades-next-chapter

08/08/2024

Poems 4 - 6 of Jazra Khaleed' "Revolving Doors" is now live on Ramparts, Barricade's web forum. Follow the link in the bio to read more poems ~ and more about this multipart cut-up, excerpted from an anthology of Khaleed's work, THE LIGHT THAT BURNS US, forthcoming in October from

01/08/2024

Barricade is beginning an exciting new chapter: we are putting our annual print volume on pause to devote the whole of our labors to issues-based and thematic projects!
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With the ongoing genocide in Gaza and increasing fascistic actions from the highest levels of governments around the world, we are changing our model to be able to bring you more contemporary writing in translation and more new kinds of original wiritng addressed to the exigencies of our shared present.
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Barricade is an autonomous, volunteer-run collective, and we rely on you! Please consider donating to our Chuffed campaign.
https://chuffed.org/project/barricades-next-chapter

15/07/2024

Barricade is pleased to announce that Four Way Review‘s monthly special, featuring submissions originally published on Ramparts, has been released online! You can view it at the link below.

We’d like to thank everyone who submitted to our call and Four Way Review for collaborating with us. Watch this space in the coming days for more contributions to the series.

Submissions for our Solidarity with Palestine series will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis, with publication resuming in the fall. Send all submissions and inquiries to [email protected].

25/03/2024

We're excited to announce that we've partnered with Ugly Duckling Presse and Brooklyn Institute for Social Research for an evening of presentations and panel discussion! We hope to see you Wednesday, April 3rd, at BISR Central (68 Jay St #425 in Dumbo, Brooklyn), as we welcome the Leipzig/Vienna-based collective Transletting for a conversation about what it means to take translation as an artform unto itself.

With Walter Benjamin's landmark essay "Task of the Translator" and Sawako Nakayasu's Say Translation Is Art as a jumping off place, we'll ask: What does infidelity in translation entail—socially, politically, and in practice? What is the position of the translator in relation to the work to be translated, and in relation to other discourses and fields of activity? How does translation, taken as an autonomous mode of aesthetic production, bring into focus asymmetries in power and value and, then, undertake to redress them?

The event is free and open to the public; doors at 6:45pm. Please RSVP here: https://thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/events/occasional-evenings-translation-is-art-a-presentation-and-panel-discussion/

We look forward to seeing you there!

24/03/2024

ICYMI: Barricade and Four Way Review are honored to share the work of poet Olivia Elias, in English translation by Jérémy Victor Robert, as the first contribution in our Solidarity with Palestine series. As Robert writes, “In making room for the countless anonymous voices being crushed as we write, Olivia Elias builds them a home within her poems, a shrine facing the soothing sight of an acacia tree.”

Read the full post on Ramparts: https://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/four-poems-olivia-elias/

Barricade and Four Way continue to seek submissions of work by Palestinian authors or in solidarity with the Palestinian people. See the call for contributions here: https://barricadejournal.org/ramparts/in-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-people-a-call-for-contributions/

08/03/2024

Now on Ramparts: We're excited to share the first contribution to our Solidarity with Palestine series, four poems by Olivia Elias translated from the French by Jérémy Victor Robert. As Robert writes, these poems "are in line with the author’s defense of the Palestinian people. Olivia Elias gives the floor to the victims of massacres, creating poems like graphic, musical collages where voices and genres collide."

Posted on February 29, 2024February 29, 2024 by G. Holleran @ BarricadeFour Poems by Olivia Elias, translated from the French by Jérémy Victor Robert Mobile users: Reading in landscape mode is recommended. DAY 21, WORDS ARE TOO POOR October 28, 2023 words are too poor but I have only them my only ...

14/02/2024

Hey everyone - reminder that our in-person launch party for issue #5 is happening on Friday (February 16) in Brooklyn! We'll have some contributors to the issue doing a poetry reading, and there will be a mini book fair you can browse in between dancing and socializing. Donations at the door will be collected for direct relief efforts in Gaza.

Big news! Barricade vol. 5, our special poetry issue, is now live! Go to barricadejournal.org to check it out! We hope that you enjoy reading it and will share it far and wide.

And if you'll be in New York on February 16, join us at 7pm at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research office in Dumbo for our release party! There will be music, drinks, a poetry reading, and a mini book fair (including print copies of our latest and past issues). Donations at the door will be collected for direct relief efforts in Gaza.

08/02/2024

In conjunction with the launch of our latest issue, we're announcing a call for contributions for a new series on Ramparts, our online forum. In collaboration with Four Way Review, we'd like to use our platform to feature works by Palestinian authors and/or that stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Works will be published immediately on Ramparts, and subsequently selected and compiled for a special issue of Four Way Review.

More details and information on how to submit here:

Posted on February 5, 2024February 5, 2024 by Grace HolleranIn Solidarity with the Palestinian People: A Call for Contributions More than three months into Israel’s latest escalation of a decades-long project of state-sponsored genocide of the Palestinian people, Gaza continues to face deadly bomb...

30/01/2024

Big news! Barricade vol. 5, our special poetry issue, is now live! Go to barricadejournal.org to check it out! We hope that you enjoy reading it and will share it far and wide.

And if you'll be in New York on February 16, join us at 7pm at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research office in Dumbo for our release party! There will be music, drinks, a poetry reading, and a mini book fair (including print copies of our latest and past issues). Donations at the door will be collected for direct relief efforts in Gaza.