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Lisa McGee is the creator and sole writer behind Derry Girls, which she says is largely an autobiographical series. McGee was raised in Bogside, a Catholic neighborhood in Derry, Northern Ireland where, in 1969, a violent conflict between British…

As a native to Melitopol’, Ukraine, Dana Kavelina’s life has always been defined by war. Since 2017, Kavelina, an animator by schooling, has used art of various mediums including sketches, video installations, and paintings to share her critiques on…

An oil painting on a 79 cm by 64 cm canvas. The painting depicts a withered, decapitated head surrounded by snakes in an isolated and barren background. In the eye sockets and mouth of the head, there are smaller duplicated heads with the same…

A photograph of Dalí in the 1960s, sporting his characteristic flamboyant mustache, holding his pet ocelot, Babou.

A digital image of a map of Europe. The different colors represent opposing territories of countries during the Thirty Years' war, along with important battles and invasions. 

Derry Girls follows Erin Quinn (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), a lovable but self-absorbed teenager, her quirky cousin, Orla (Louisa Harland), friends Clare (Nicola Coughlan) and Michelle (Jamie-Lee O'Donnell), and Michelle's cousin, James (Dylan…

Literature: Poem that serves as a manifesto for activism, combining intense language and vivid imagery to inspire defiance against systemic injustice. The poem emphasizes the urgency of struggle, rejecting passivity and urging the living to honor the…

Literature: A historical fiction about an Iraqi scholar who, after meeting a bookseller documenting the devastation of war, is drawn into the haunting stories of lives and places destroyed by conflict.

Literature: A historical fiction that recounts the childhood of a young boy in the aftermath of World War two. The cover displays a muted image of a foggy riverside and a lone rowboat, indicating towards the novel’s themes of secrecy, memory, and…

This is a print by Francisco Goya that shows dismembered corpses hanging from a tree. There is a minimal background. The print is in black and white and it is captioned "Grande hazaña! con muertos!"