Writing is an act of resistance
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2020 Summer Olympics: Tokyo Games Medal Count
Tara Campbell, objectification, athletes of color, sexualization of the female body, racism and sexism in sports, 2020 Summer Olympics, SatireBy Tara Campbell * as of July 13 ** as of September 8 Tara Campbell is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse. She received her MFA from American University. In addition to Writers Resist, previous publication credits include SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, Wigleaf, Jellyfish Review, Booth, Strange Horizons, and CRAFT…
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Farmers Market, Eastern Shore of Maryland
Summer 2021 By Erin Murphy Everything is free, it seems: parking, treats for dogs whose owners browse free-range brown eggs. Last month scores of documents were found in a nearby attic, dry rotted and tattered. One offered 30 dollars for the capture of a Negro man named Amos with coarse trousers, a tolerable good felt…
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New Deal, No Mule
By Julie A Dickson Cotton familiarity, certainly, reparation absent, disparity of races, apparent then, in lack of mule plus 40 acres promised, disconcerted, hired workers of color, tried to transcend past inequity, berated frequently, repeatedly as subservient, un- respected and mostly suspected crime, intrusion, caucasian collusion to diminish pride, worth taken from generations passed,…
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Backyard Musings in America at Twilight
climate crisi, climate injustice, Narrative nonfiction, climate change, global warming, Ashley R. CarlsonBy Ashley R. Carlson 6:52 p.m. Summer, twilight, after a thunderous lightning-streaked monsoon that flooded streets and yards and sent trashcans floating into traffic-stalled intersections. Seventy-eight degrees here in Phoenix, uncharacteristically tolerable for the Sonoran desert mid-August. A breeze ruffles my hair, my German shepherd panting nearby as she lifts her long, jet-black snout…
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GAZA
By Kiran Masroor Gaza did not destruct for us to watch. The way the word Gaza stays in the back of the throat. I didn’t know I loved Gaza until it became so small. Small as a word in a sentence. We fit such enormous things into our mouths and expect that the meaning still…
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Writers Resist News
New schedule, renewed resistance—and a new editor We are delighted to introduce our new editor, DW McKinney. DW is a Black American, multi-genre writer, and she’ll be collaborating with our poetry and prose editors. She pens 3 PANELS, a graphic novels review column for CNMN Magazine. Her work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of…
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Legacy, Complicated
By DW McKinney A small queue is forming outside a set of locked glass doors when I whip into the parking lot. It’s the first time I’ve ever been to the Doolittle Community Center even though I frequent the park a few hundred feet away on a regular basis with my daughters. I exit my…
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It’s June 19, 2021!
Welcome to the Writers Resist Juneteenth and Biden-Harris First 150 Days Issue In this issue we celebrate, resist, and envision better things, along with pronouncing some serious condemnation when warranted. But before you plunge into the issue, please consider these Juneteenth resources: “What Is Juneteenth?” by Henry Louis Gates, The Root, 2013 “Making Juneteenth Great…
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Oath: n. curse, vow, promise.
Poetry, Lea Page, Vice President Kamala Harris, first woman of color vice president, Pete Buttigieg, Chasten ButtigiegBy Lea Page The photograph: Vice-President Kamala Harris (let’s just say that one more time: Vice-President Kamala Harris)—a woman, a brown woman, a black woman, an Asian-American woman, a woman born of immigrants, a powerful woman, a fierce woman, a joyful woman—swears in a man whose husband—partner, third-gentleman (?), the love of the man’s…