Husband and wife co-owners of Palestinian American restaurant Renata’s Kitchen, Yasser and Kate Aiq, have had a challenging journey as restaurateurs surviving the pandemic.

Although Robeson is now remembered for his beautiful voice and his civil rights work in the United States, his travels in North Africa shaped the activist he would become.

Kenneth X. Robbins took a multiple-choice test at high school over sixty years ago, in which the correct answer to a question was “Muslims are Arabs.” He insisted that his teacher was wrong, that not all Muslims were Arabs, but he got in trouble with the school for pointing out this obvious fact.

Chronicling Resistance is a project based in occupied Lenapehoking (Philadelphia) aiming to tell the stories of marginalized groups through historical archives and relate them to today’s liberation efforts. The exhibition reveals buried truths and explores oral histories with an intersectional lens.

“All I know is that I was created; not how, not why” ponders the narrator of video and installation artist Leila Weefur’s PLAY†PREY (2021). The phrase summarizes the complicated relationship between one’s self and one’s identity, the unifying theme of the diverse works included in ALTER, the most recent exhibition at Twelve Gates Arts in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood.