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Automatic writing, or spirit writing, introduces a hidden feminist media history that puts into question the role of the author, divisions between automaticity and creativity, and the porosity of the (writing) body. In the nineteenth century, a predominantly female labor force began channeling spirits and producing scripts that were either entirely authorless or profoundly collaborative, a practice not so much about inscribing as de-inscribing. This article focuses on medium Geraldine Cummins, who brought her ghosts and guides into a court of law, revealing how the most ordinary tools of writing can be encountered as uncanny and talismanic presences. Her techniques of radical listening invite explorations of live-ness, presence, able-ness, and receptivity—themes that the article extends to the work of contemporary feminist artists and the illegible scripts of AI. How does automatic writing complicate the role of bodies who write as well as bodies of writing?

Contemporary political events in Palestine and the United States have drawn renewed interest in the long history of militant Black-Palestinian solidarity. Although many historical accounts typically begin in the post-1967 Arab-Israeli War moment with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panthers in Algiers, this article traces a foundational period of Black radical coalition building with Palestine through Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam. In doing so, it privileges systems of intergenerational exchange and emphasizes the ways in which broader political developments, from Egyptian anti-imperialism to the birth of the Third World project, helped establish the basis for the Black Power movement's identification with Palestine. The article argues that the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X's border crossing and concomitant efforts to forge ties with Arab-world liberation movements explicitly rendered Palestine a referent of the Black Radical Tradition.