Writing is an act of resistance
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#MeToo
By R.R. Marsh #MeToo. It took me several moments to post the words on my Facebook account. I had to think through my past—a place I generally prefer to avoid—and consider events I had ignored for quite some time. Had I been a victim of sexual assault? Or was I fashioning mere slips of…
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A Prayer
By Jackleen Holton Hookway This world is just a little place, just the red in the sky, before the sun rises, so let us keep fast hold of hands, that when the birds begin, none of us be missing. –Emily Dickinson A sapling shakes, and a gust of new red-crested finches are launched into a…
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For Kepler 138b (the beautiful)
By mica woods if you took a telescope to the sky 200 lightyears away happened to point it down on this country, would you see the slaughter and the selling by those men we carry memories of in our pockets or would you not notice the labor in the fields as different from the digging…
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Let’s End Ageism
By Ashton Applewhite Ageism is discrimination and stereotyping on the basis of age. We experience it anytime someone assumes we’re too old for something, instead of finding out who we are and what we’re capable of, or too young. Ageism cuts both ways. All -isms are socially constructed ideas—racism, sexism, homophobia—and that means we make them up, and they can change over…
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Jump
By Yazmin Navarro There was always an ache. A pain that filled the inside of my belly. A pain that engulfed me. Of missing something. Of missing someone. Of missing my mother. It was the times. It was the need. It was seeing the hunger in her children’s eyes. It was the fear of watching…
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The Salt March
By Howard Richard Debs “We are entering upon a life and death struggle” —Mahatma Gandhi The oldest, Gandhi himself, then 61 the youngest among those at the start, 18. There were but 80 in all to begin. It took 24 days, 240 miles on foot to reach the coast. 2500 would next march on…
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Season of American Lupine
By Lucille Ausman he is out extinguishing wild fires lost in the smoke digging lines in the ground trying to trap her behind the wall before she can reach him suffocating in her fury he’s strong and brave and all American I guess but she doesn’t want protecting she doesn’t want to cool down…
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Breaking News: He Fakes His Orgasms
Psychologists detect pre-existing conditions. A spokesman for the silent majority replies. By Andy Blumenthal Bunk. What crap. Another pathetic dig at our elected president. At least make it credible, the way normal fake news spins around real events like a murder or WMDs. Though he could probably easily fabricate ecstasy, it’s a bizarre slur…
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Washing Instructions
By Brenda Birenbaum You raise your hands to hush the crowd, you raise your hands america america, you raise your hands palms out to hush the crowd to give it voice, translate primordial hoots and jeers and lewd youtubes—flip off the camera, yeah, thrust that pelvis forward, yeah—the gun swells in your pants and…