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Justin Kiersky
Denver, Colorado
Editor, writer, publisher and co-founder of Interstitial Media whose work is primarily focused on conflict, culture, history and global affairs.
Justin Kiersky's work
The Rule of the Gun
Is the finger on the trigger is more important than the life at the end of the barrel?
Confessions of a Looted Soul
As wind farms envelop the hometown of Zapotec poet and language preservationist Victor Terán, his writing has evolved into a vehicle of resistance against post-colonial development.
Spatial Clusters: Covid in the Camps
In early 2020, public health officials, refugees and humanitarian aid workers began raising alarms about the potentially catastrophic consequences of a Covid outbreak in any of the worlds densely-populated refugee settlements.
Refugee Archipelago: Ch. 2
Memories from the first days of Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement.
Kachin
A Jingpo (Kachin) artist leaves her home in China and moves to a rebel stronghold in northern Myanmar to teach children hiding in an internally displaced people (IDP) camp to process trauma through painting and poetry.
Harbor Blues, Salina Cruz
Rafael Mayoral recalls the idylls of youth in Salina Cruz and the three development megaprojects that devastated the gritty port city and left fallow farmlands, water shortages and urban poverty in their wake.
The Painting
Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre reappears in the bedroom of a deceased woman in rural New Mexico three decades years after it was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art in broad daylight. This is the painting's story.
Refugee Archipelago
A graphic work of reportage as told by the residents of Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, West Nile, Uganda.
Sketches from Solitary
An artist-turned-chaplain and a local muralist working in the world’s most secure prison become conduits of creativity for some of the nation’s most notorious inmates.
Dispatch from Aztlán
After nearly fifty years, a public park in Denver’s Northside neighborhood is renamed from Columbus to La Raza Park in honor of the Chicano community that once gave it vitality.
A Brief History of the Transistmico
Early Spanish expeditions never located a navigable passage to the Pacific Ocean and the riches of the Indies. Five hundred years later, an interoceanic railway across Oaxaca aims realize those ambitions and transform the shipping industry.
In the Grove of Magical Realism
When the pandemic hits, a modern dancer nearing the end of his career returns home to Lake Michigan and undergoes a creative reawakening that merges movement, film and the natural world.
Butterfly with Broken Wings
When Lukas Avendaño's brother vanishes near their family home, the celebrated muxe performance artist undertakes an agonizing two-year journey in search of the truth or his remains.