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Dec 17, 2024 | 
logicmag.io | Zoe Samudzi
When I was informed that my daddy’s cancer bore hereditary implications, I was no longer caught in the preceding months’ loop of anxiously catastrophizing about paternal mortality.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Zoe Samudzi
How can we weigh present materialities against historical wounds?
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
israelbehindthenews.com | Zoe Samudzi
On 31 October 2023, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, wore a Judenstern (“Jew’s star”) while addressing the United Nations Security Council. His provocative adornment of the patch, a symbol of the genocidal marking of European Jews during the Nazi Holocaust, was intended to remind the body of the consequences of “staying silent in the face of evil” in the wake of Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel on 7 October.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Zoe Samudzi
On 31 October 2023, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, wore a Judenstern (“Jew’s star”) while addressing the United Nations Security Council. His provocative adornment of the patch, a symbol of the genocidal marking of European Jews during the Nazi Holocaust, was intended to remind the body of the consequences of “staying silent in the face of evil” in the wake of Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel on 7 October.
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Oct 21, 2023 | 
parapraxismagazine.com | Zoe Samudzi
I am not an Indigenous person, rather a diasporan just one generation removed from the degradations and humiliations of British colonization in what is now called Zimbabwe. But in that room, and particularly in that moment of emotional arrest and vulnerability, I shared something terrifying with the artifacts stolen from Cameroon, the present-day Democratic Republic and Republic of Congo, Togo, Namibia, and elsewhere.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
artnews.com | Zoe Samudzi
IN THE TOWER OF FRANKFURT’S Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), where Cameron Rowland’s newest exhibition, “Amt 45 i,”is currently on display, there is an enormous cast-iron sugar kettle, five feet in diameter. In an essay accompanying the exhibition, Rowland writes that such kettles “operated through systematic torture,” the persistence of which “kept the sugar mill in near-constant production,” more than 16 hours a day.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
parapraxismagazine.com | Zoe Samudzi |Noor Asif
Zoé to Noor (12/27/22):After an early December fire in my building left me unable to live in my apartment for forty-three days, a generous acquaintance offered me her home in Martha’s Vineyard for the holiday season. I spent a lot of time driving around the island, empty and navigable in the off-season without the summering tourists.
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Aug 7, 2023 | 
artnews.com | Sarah Douglas |Emily Watlington |Tausif Noor |Zoe Samudzi
What makes an artist iconic? It depends whom you ask. For usat Art in America, it has to do with their impact on other artists, their influence on visual culture, and, ultimately, their effect on history and society. That latter quality is a tough one to gauge; it’s a bit like the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings. But the artists we feature in this issue as icons have left their mark, to be sure.
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Aug 7, 2023 | 
1africafocus.com | Sarah Douglas |Emily Watlington |Tausif Noor |Zoe Samudzi
Africa is many things to many people. The continent, with its sheer size and cultural diversity, is home to resilient, community-minded people who are all too often represented artistically through an inaccurate, Western lens. It’s an oversight that is gradually being corrected, though, thanks partly to the work of creators like Ndumiso Nyoni.
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Jul 29, 2023 | 
proteanmag.com | Zoe Samudzi
This article appears in Protean Magazine Issue IV: Special Relativity. Print copies are now available at our store. ♦♦♦
In Zimbabwean culture, married women are often colloquially referred to by the prefix “mai-” appended to the name of their eldest child. I am my mother’s eldest biological daughter, but still her youngest child.
