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Dialogues

“Dialogues” is an online journal of research, critical texts, conversations, multimedia works, poetry, and fiction. Our editorial mission centers voices from the Global Majority, particularly those navigating intersections of race, queerness, and other identities. We are currently accepting submissions for fieldwork notes, academic essays, video essays, interviews, podcasts, and creative nonfiction that explore topics including but not limited to institutional critique, land back movements, restitution discourse, decolonial practices, cultural preservation, community healing modalities, environmental justice, and the intersections of race, gender, and indigeneity. Send your work along with a brief biography to info@lungsproject.org using the subject line “Dialogues Submission.” You can submit long written pieces (2,500-5,000 words), short pieces (1,000-2,500 words), and audio/video work. All submitted work must be original to the author and previously unpublished. We also encourage project pitches for collaborative work or innovative formats.

A Dialogue Between Angela Wingate-Burdon and Sheyda A. Khaymaz

Published: October 2017

This dialogue between Angela Wingate-Burdon and Sheyda A. Khaymaz took place on 29 October 2017 via Skype. Edited collaboratively by Khaymaz and Wingate-Burdon. Themes mentioned: Commercial galleries, institutional critique, creepiness, emerging practices, collaboration, academic language, curating, photography, Black identity, otherness, self-critique, DIY, DIWO, inspiring others.

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Trajectories of Collaborative Publishing Ethics

Words by Sheyda A. Khaymaz

Published: October 2017

In order to position Lungs within a contemporary context as a publication, it is crucial to conjure up the legacies of "magazine" as an alternative form of speech. A magazine, in its essence, is a periodical which comes from the Latin word, "periodicus," meaning "returning regularly." A magazine is thus determined by its seriality, its existence across time. Within the following paragraphs, we will aim to elaborate a model of curatorial ethics and a conceptual framework through which the second edition of Lungs came into being.

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