Art - Diba

The Book of Hope: Choosing Hope in a World on the Edge

Created: January 20, 2026 11:36 AM

In a world overwhelmed by climate crisis, conflict, and uncertainty, The Book of Hope offers something rare: a calm, grounded belief in humanity’s ability to change. Through an intimate conversation with Jane Goodall, this book reframes hope not as optimism, but as an active choice, one that demands courage, responsibility, and action.

A Portrait of a Woman Who Rewrote History Through Dance

Created: January 20, 2026 11:20 AM

Some women don’t just perform history, they reshape it. Fearless and Free gives us Josephine Baker not as an icon frozen in time, but as a living, breathing woman whose body, voice, and courage rewrote the rules of art, politics, and freedom.

NO FAULT: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce

Created: December 02, 2025 09:28 AM

What if divorce isn’t a failure, but a form of clarity? In No Fault, Haley Mlotek reframes separation as an intimate, cultural, and deeply feminist act, tracing how leaving can become the beginning of self-definition rather than its collapse.

Dressing After Collapse: Fashion in Post-Socialist Mongolia

Created: December 28, 2025 07:39 PM

What happens to style when the future arrives without instruction? When choice expands faster than meaning, and clothing precedes language? In some places, fashion does not emerge through refinement or desire, but through rupture, worn not to signify belonging, but to remain intact.

Held in Motion: Femininity and Control in Georgian National Dance

Created: December 28, 2025 08:06 PM

In Georgian national dance, as stabilized through Sukhishvili’s performances, movement is designed not for expansion, but for restraint. The female body on stage carries balance rather than individual expression. What is visible is tradition; what remains less visible is the order that sustains it.

Living the Unfinished

Created: December 28, 2025 09:44 PM

Completion has quietly lost its authority. What once waited to end now continues without promise. The question is no longer how things resolve, but how they are lived while remaining open.

Before Language

Created: December 28, 2025 09:55 PM

Culture does not begin in language. It begins in repetition, in correction, in the regulation of bodies within space. What follows does not argue this condition; it traces how it continues to move.

When Grief Refuses Silence: The Geography of Voice and Loss

Created: December 28, 2025 09:21 PM

Some forms of expression do not seek explanation. They appear when language no longer holds, when sound remains the only available gesture. This text moves through such moments, where voice surfaces not to resolve loss, but to remain with it.