Larissa R. Thomas

Mar 20, 2024 | sapiens.org | Sophia Goodfriend |Bridget Alex |M. Cruz |Larissa R. Thomas

Content Warning: The materials below include images of violence. ✽In early January, a TikTok account affiliated with Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Shas party posted a video that an Israeli soldier filmed in Gaza. Somewhere in the northern part of the Strip, the soldier stands inside a bedroom in a Palestinian home.

Mar 19, 2024 | sapiens.org | M. Cruz |Larissa R. Thomas |Bridget Alex |Jenny Davis

On an island 300 kilometers west of mainland Africa, in 2020, our small team began down a barely visible path flanked by shoulder-high, shimmering capim grass. Soon the tropical forest thickened. Lush felt like an understatement. There are stories of old men’s staffs taking root and sprouting while their owners chatted. We were heading to rumored ruins of an engenho—a Portuguese word for sugar mill—on the African island nation of São Tomé e Príncipe.