Tengefu is the Swahili word for “protected marine area.” Abubakar spends his days dreaming about corals. When helping his daughter with math homework, they add and subtract corals. He is the former chair of the Beach Management Unit and helped start the reef restoration program on Wasini Island in Southeast Kenya. He believes the corals…
Month: March 2022
Cyberpunk Fashion
“Technology is fun for a little bit and then it’s no longer fun.” Meet the surveillance disrupters: Skitch is a maker of eyewear that defies facial recognition. Leo Selvaggio is an artist who has sacrificed his own identity to resist surveillance. Kate Bertash designs clothes that floods license plate readers with fake data. For Brut,…
Land Back: The Battle for Fairy Creek
“It feels like we’re in a war quite often at Fairy Creek. Like we’re in this war of the woods,” said Shy-Anne Gunville. In a remote rainforest at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, land defenders like Gunville are putting their bodies on the line to stop the logging of centuries-old trees.