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MYRTO TSILIMPOUNIDI: Sometimes academic scholar ship and graffiti are not that distinct from one another, in the sense that they both share an attention to words, to detail and to placement. This Special Feature was created in reaction to the different crises occurring internationally, which were reflected in inscriptions on the walls. The different contributions to this collection give us glimpses of these inscriptions in urban environments around the world. Julia Tulke and Konstantinos Avramidis talk about the saturated walls in Athens after a decade of financial crisis, and then six years of what Europe calls a refugee crisis. Oksana Zaporozhets talks about the crisis of self expression and representation in public space in Moscow, while Susan Hansen talks about the visual counter responses to the vote for same sex marriage in Australia. Paridhi Gupta takes us to Delhi and the ongoing struggle for girls and women's presence in public space. Piyarat Panlee joins us from Thailand to discuss the crisis of eviction and gentrification under the military government, and our final stop is in Egypt with Sarah H. Awad's paper on the transformation of Cairo's walls, postrevolution.

We view city walls as a canvas and the social conditi ons in different locations as the paint in a gallery of mainly untold stories. What we want to celebrate today is that what is still very much a masculine subculture is experiencing a transformation, not only in the scholarship of queer and feminist perspectives but also in different crews and different writings on the walls.