Remaking the Exceptional Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo Edited by Amber Ginsburg, Aaron Hughes, Aliya Hussain, and Audrey Petty

Seeing through Stone artists Amber Ginsburg's and Aaron Hughes' "Remaking the Exceptional Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo" This book brings together artwork and writing by torture survivors, artists, and scholars.Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, & Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo, published on the occasion of the exhibition at DePaul Art Museum, brings together activists, artists, poets, and torture survivors to investigate and resist the ecosystems of violence that connect Chicago to the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Edited by artists and co-curators Amber Ginsburg and Aaron Hughes with Aliya Hussain (Center for Constitutional Rights) and Audrey Petty (Illinois Humanities), Remaking the Exceptional features new pieces of investigative journalism on the connections between military and police torture by Kari Lydersen (Medill School of Journalism) and Maira Khwaja (Invisible Institute), Spencer Ackerman’s 2015 Guardian exposé “Bad Lieu