ROAR Magazine is an independent journal of the radical imagination providing grassroots perspectives from the frontlines of the global struggle for real democracy.
ROAR Magazine is an independent journal of the radical imagination providing grassroots perspectives from the frontlines of the global struggle for real democracy.
In the face of state violence, local communities are casting light on Trinidad’s uneven geographies of misanthropic skepticism — and sickening mimicry.
An interview with artist Cassie Thornton about The Hologram: a platform for peer-to-peer feminist care.
Angela Mitropoulos’s new book Pandemonium unpacks the deadly structures of power behind the pandemic that changed the world.
A new book offers snapshots of struggles and intimate stories about life during the pandemic from across the globe, reminding us who we really are.
Local communities in Mexcio’s Yucatan peninsula resist the Maya Train, a mega project favored by president AMLO that risks doing irreparable damage to the region.
Women from Candelaria in Chiapas, Mexico, explain how they took back control over their own lives and have collectively achieved social and economic independence.
The peace process is underway in Colombia and Esteban, a former FARC guerrilla, dreams of becoming a musician. But first he must reconcile with his family.
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