Liz Artistry Infographics

Liz has created the following infographics of The Fire These Times episodes. They’re also available on her website, Twitter and Instagram.

Liz Artistry creates digital art, most often in the form of visual notes, guided by a passion for lifelong learning and revolutionary praxis. Synthesizing and illustrating conversations brings her a sense of connection to community and the world. She currently lives and works on Ohlone land in Berkeley, California.

She has had the honor of working with

grassroots groups like the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work, Justice for Muslims Collective, Center for Story-Based Strategy, and Community Resource Hub
movement builders like Alice Wong for an infographic about her book “Disability Visbility” and Andrea Ritchie for an infographic for Incite!’s 20th anniversary event
large organizations like Amnesty International, The Aspen Institute and The Sierra Club

Graphic notes titled “Beirut Explosion, One Year On” with text and illustrations referencing the episode of the same title from the podcast “The Fire These Times” with Elia Ayoub, featuring guests Lina Mounzer and Timour Azhari

Eyes on Beirut, one year after the 8/4/2020 explosion that killed at least 218 people. I was originally looking to educate myself on the history, politics, and economics of the current situation in Lebanon, but the reality and emotion of memory and trauma is completely inseparable, and I really appreciated the conversations on The Fire These Times podcast for capturing both. I only captured a fraction of them, and know I missed a lot due to my own ignorance and not being able to catch references, but hopefully this image can encourage folks to check out the podcast themselves! I listened to the ones featuring Lina Mounzer and Timour Azhari.

On October 7th, Hamas fighters breached the militarized fence separating the occupied Gaza strip from Israeli communities in the south, killing 1400 people and taking 200 hostages. Israel immediately retaliated with severe bombardment of the Gaza strip that, at the time of this writing, has killed 7000 people. In the West Bank, settler violence and army raids have also killed dozens of Palestinians, and Palestinian citizens of Israel as well as leftist Israelis have been arrested for speaking out. While the world is currently transfixed by what’s happening in Israel-Palestine, this story did not begin on October 7th. Elia Ayoub and Daniel Voskoboynik are joined by Dana El Kurd, Orly Noy, and Yair Wallach to think through this moment, process our grief together, and articulate alternative visions for both peoples. We focused on three themes: a) Grief, b) Thinking Through This Moment, c) What can be done?

Graphic notes titled “A The Fire These Times Roundtable on Palestine Israel: There is Another Way” with text and illustrations referencing the episode of the same title from the podcast “The Fire These Times” with Dana El Kurd, Daniel Voskoboynik, and Dana El Kurd, featuring guests Orly Nor and Yair Wallace.

Graphic notes titled “Arab Jews for Palestinian Liberation” with text and illustrations referencing the episode titled “Arabs Jews for Palestinian Liberation or, When Walls Become Windows” from the podcast “The Fire These Times” with Elia Ayoub and Daniel Voskoboynik, featuring guests Hadar Cohen and Dahab Kashi.

Daniel Voskoboynik and Joey Ayoub host a conversation between two Arab Jewish activists Hadar Cohen and Dahab Kashi, exploring the radical power of Arab Jewish perspectives. Often seen as mutually exclusive identities, the existence and experience of Arab Jews transcends the narrator, and violent, confines of both Zionism and Arab Nationalism. The artist Yossi Zabar spoke about the power of the hyphen connecting Arab and Jew,’ and in this episode we explore the potential that acknowledging that hyphen has in our current critical moment.

Notes on a recent The Fire These Times episode that touches on the ways different types and contexts of violence have been ignored, indicted, and wielded before, during, and after 10/7. It’s especially timeline in light of the IJC ruling for Israel to take measures to prove it is preventing genocide in Gaza. The ruling is significant and not enough. CEASEFIRE NOW. Keep organizing and protesting and demanding FREE PALESTINE!

Graphic notes titled “Seen and Unseen Violence in Israel-Palestine” with text and illustrations referencing the episode of the same title from the podcast “The Fire These Times” with Elia Ayoub and Dana El Kurd, featuring guests Diana Greenwald and Alexis Abrahams.

Graphic notes titled “How the World is Failing Armenians. Again.” with text and illustrations referencing the episodes titled “How the World Failed Nagorno-Karabakh w/ Karena Avedissian & Anna” and “How Azerbaijan is Greenwashing Genocide w/ Karena Avedissian and Anna” from the podcast “The Fire These Times” with Elia Ayoub, Karena Avedissian and Anna.

April 24th 2024 marks the 109th anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide. But as @karena.a reminds us, the “genocide didn’t end with killings.” The genocide continues today via Azerbaijan, supported by Turkey and Israel – invasion, occupation, murders, displacement, torture, beheadings and dismemberment, a military victory park with displays of helmets and mannequins of dead Armenian soldiers, exterminationist language, destruction of heritage sites, and more.

Just last year, “in 2023, the world watched in silence as Azerbaijan committed genocide against the Armenian people of Artsakh.” @lemkininstitute As of January 1st of this year, the Republic of Artsakh ceased to exist. Azerbaijan has turned its sights to Armenia, attacking Armenia’s Syunik province and referring to it as “Western Azerbaijan.” The world is failing Armenia again. To learn more, listen to the conversation from @firethesetimes (“How the world failed Nagorno Karabakh”), and check out @learn4artsakh and the groups tagged in the image!