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  • World map with location of conflicts

    Welcome to Amplified Voices, a Special Issue of Writers Resist

    Since the Vietnam War, violent conflict has been made visible to even the least likely victims, on televisions, then phones, now raging across social media—and [...]

  • A peace symbol with a dove and a rifle imposed over it

    From the Editor of Amplified Voices

    By DW McKinney   These words—the ones in this note and the ones in this issue—are difficult to write. Do not look away from them. [...]

  • Graffiti on a wall, reading War Is Terrorism

    They Are All Terrorists

    By Lori Yeghiayan Friedman   is what my (now long-dead) mother used to say to the TV news reports of the bombings, beheadings, settlements, kidnappings, [...]

  • Dark cloud of smoke rising between buildings

    Two Poems by Saheed Sunday

    a daggerpoint & what is salvation  if not how we give our body to beauty to the memory of what does not rust —Othuke Umukoro [...]

  • Hand-lettered sign reading: [Aid workers in Gaza] are bringing their children to work with them so that if they die they die together —Juliette Touma, UNRWA Director of Communications

    Caught in the Crossfire of a Madding Crowd

    By J.D. Harlock   caught in the crossfire of a madding crowd, the child runs into the arms of her mother and nestles herself 'neath [...]

  • Close up image of white, rippled gauze

    Gauze

    By Lisa Suhair Majaj   when you learn that “gauze” comes from Gaza you will begin to understand how light passing through translucent fabric illuminates [...]

  • Candles and other forenda offerings

    Ofrenda for Resistance

    By Jordan Alejandro Rivera   Tier I: Inframundo Poppy and cempasúchil petals Intermingled as our destinies Blood, bones, and stems Obsidian spearheads And shattered sugar [...]

  • A bombed building in Gaza

    In Pillars, the Prized City

    By Maira Faisal “You ask: What is the meaning of ‘homeland’? "They will say: The house, the mulberry tree, the chicken coop, the beehive, the [...]

  • Photo of two doors with the words interview room stenciled on them

    Zoo

    By N. de Vera   I fidgeted at the line for immigration after arriving at LAX. When it was my turn, I calmly answered the [...]

  • Kite with Palestinian flag

    Two Poems by Lonav Ojha

    To Refaat Alareer, who became a kite   Brother, you looked so loving, holding very gently that box of strawberries, and behind your home, not [...]

  • Closeup of curly, brown hair, no face.

    18 Jennas

    By Jenna Mayzouni   A social media influencer had posted that he looked up how many people were killed in Gaza who shared his name. [...]

  • Black and white image of a RNA strand

    Jannah is a single strand. My father is the complementary prognosticator strand.

    By Abdulrazaq Salihu 3’                                        [...]

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