To mark our anniversary, we will be publishing a retrospective from our extensive archives over the course of five consecutive weeks. Five years of doubts and questions, caught up in the daily grind of events and distress. We are not mere spectators — No, The Crown Letter is a choir in motion, a circle, women remembering, and perhaps some of a consolation.

Adriana Bustos

Imago Mundi XI

Wheel Map, 2012 Acrílico y grafito sobre canvas :Acrylic and graphite on canvas

First published in December 2022

Anne Brunswic

This is not a wall

Photo souvenir, Abu Dis, West Bank, Occupied Palestine, January 2004.

[English below]

CECI N’EST PAS UN MUR. La chose tient de la Grande Muraille de Chine, de l’enceinte d’une villa dans la jungle, du jeu de Lego. Il est devenu un terrain de jeu pour street-artist.

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THIS IS NOT A WALL. It’s something like the Great Wall of China, the walls of a villa in the jungle, or a Lego game. It has become a playground for street artists.

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First published in 2021. New edition.

Saviya Lopes

The Matriarchs

From Left to Right: Magdelena Dabre, Philomeena Dmello, Marcella Pinto, Tereza Lopes, Joanna Colaco

The Matriarchs – “The Tereza I know” (Photographic Series), 2020
The Matriarchs
They followed Matrifocality.
They were fierce.
They were outrageous, audacious and courageous.
They were committed;
Committed to the survival and wholeness 
of entire people/community. 
They loved music. 
They loved to dance. 
They loved their spirits. 
They loved food. 
They loved their struggle. 
They loved themselves 
and other women. 
They loved Love.
They were the Womanists.
All this while, they carried a part of me inside their womb. 
A part that keeps growing inside me now.
We were always connected
We will always be womanists.

First published in March 2020

Sudha Padmaja Francis

The Logic of Our Dreams

The Logic of Our Dreams, 3 – Kozhikode, Kerala, India

The videos are  an experimental visual diary of the pandemic times, an attempt by an Indian independent filmmaker in expressing herself while mostly being confined at home. The film meditates on the idea of home at a time when the world became unavailable to people. The film /video is also a formal archival attempt which foregrounds the digital quality of the  limited resources that were available to the filmmaker in times of this crisis

First published in May 2020

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