The GrayLit Culture Hub is a rich source of information and ideas outside the realm of mainstream media and dominant political discourse—like the non-conventional, often subversive material the term “gray literature” describes.

GrayLit aims to contribute to an emergent culture shift happening at the intersections of Palestinian and Jewish histories, via critical thought and art from and about interdependent movements for justice.

GrayLit affirms the power of art: to instigate and sustain long-term culture shift; to assert that artists have a responsibility to intervene in the mechanisms of censorship imposed by mainstream media and by political bodies; to deepen readers’ critical thinking and inspire creative, impactful action.

GrayLit seeks to cultivate a space for artists to imagine and work towards a different world—one built on demilitarization, racial justice, gender justice, indigenous sovereignty, decolonization, and collective liberation.

*Read Volume 1’s What is GrayLit? welcome post
*Read Cultivating Land, Memory and Return: A letter from the editors of Volume 2

EDITORIAL STATEMENT

Originally incubated in a context of Jewish solidarity organizing for Palestinian liberation, GrayLit seeks to critically engage connections between artistic practices, cultural identities, political realities, and intersectional solidarity, towards countering the harmful gaps and untruths of colonialist educational and cultural systems.

We are an experimental project run horizontally by a collective of editors who, at this time, are white Jewish people working on colonized land of the so-called USA to cultivate a platform oriented toward decolonization, accountability, and repair.

This means acknowledging that the material effects of representation must be addressed through material means: our editorial and design labor is volunteered, we offer more substantial honoraria to contributors of color, we will never feature a majority of white, Ashkenazi, or male voices, and we are developing a creative process that invites curatorial collaborators to participate in shaping future volumes.

We welcome feedback, questions and conversation, and commit to continually interrogating the power of this and all cultural platforms.

Where possible, we link to books through Bookshop, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent booksellers. Bookshop also supports anyone who advocates for books through their affiliate program, which pays a 10% commission on every sale, and gives a matching 10% to independent bookstores. GrayLit is a Bookshop affiliate; all income we make through commissions goes to supporting our contributors.