Writing is an act of resistance
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Two Poems by Alice Rothchild
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Sip-In: 1966
Jesse Mavro Diamond, LGBT Rights Activist Dick Leitsch, heterosexism, Mattachine Society, Poetry, homophobiaBy Jesse Mavro Diamond For LGBT Rights Activist Dick Leitsch Carpenters, bankers, bricklayers, undertakers. Why gay bars? Because we could only be gay In gay bars. The N.Y. State Liquor Authority CEO: no discrimination in bars. Why? because bars had the right to refuse customers not acting suitably. Therefore, disorderly. Bankers, bricklayers, undertakers,…
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My Black Ass Is Resting
By Sarah Sheppeck “I want to hear all of you.” “Do I have to tell it in order?” “However you’d like.” She takes a cigarette, lights it, hands me the pack. “The only condition is that you have to tell it all.” “Okay.” I exhale a thick plume of smoke. “All right. Here goes.”…
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January 6th
By Sherry Stuart Berman when they are ants world is colony is home is superorganism single-file, no ears they feel vibrations with their feet rely on scent for instruction they are trash-handlers, excavators, swarm when called to and when their king corrupts their wings and rots the wood and steals their eggs they carry…
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In Praise of Boredom
By Suzanne O’Connell The past four years have been like having a dad who sells all the furniture while I sleep, breaks the windows over the sink, throws out my stuffed bunny and lava lamp, then promises to take me to the Ferris wheel. He’s so loveable, until he isn’t. Like when he shoves…
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the arrogance of illusion
by conney d. williams the hope of this people, like tectonics, quake under the abusive weight of impostors sitting upon its collective breath still engulfed in protest dissenting to comply with its own extinction and these impostors or parasites would pillage even the safety from victims even as they disintegrated in obscurity human waste…
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The Hold
George Floyd, choke hold, Breonna Taylor, #BLM, Pat Andrus, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Black Lives Matter, Dante Parker, Poetry, Atatiana Jefferson, police violence, Kathryn Johnston, Eric Garner, Aiyana Mo’Nay Stanley-JonesBy Pat Andrus For Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, George Floyd, seven-year-old Aiyana Mo’Nay Stanley-Jones, Eric Garner, Dante Parker, Atatiana Jefferson, ninety-two-year-old Kathryn Johnston . . . A broken baton a dead rat 5 jailers with guns. How the life loses its state of pure being. How a bone breaks and one rose…
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Stop Light
By D.A. Gray “Embrace diversity. Unite — Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those that see you as prey. Embrace diversity or be destroyed.” ― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower The light works for now. We’re stopped at an intersection beside the Walgreens and its half-full parking lot, safely in our…
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The Wizard of Roz
Donald Trump 2024, Mar-a-Lago, roach motel, Fiction, Marleen S. Barr, science fiction, speculative fictionBy Marleen S. Barr “I thought the Donald would evaporate in a poof of orange smoke, ending a supremely screwed-up period of history. But the loudest mouth is not shutting up. And Republicans continue to listen, clinging to the idea that the dinosaur is the future.” – Maureen Dowd, New York Times, May 9,…