Writing is an act of resistance
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Right to Life
By Remy Dambron Imagine instead if we incentivized our citizens to stalk and spy on to report and incriminate those among us preparing for an assault, purchasing pistols brandishing rifles and boasting bump stocks customizing scopes and fastening silencers loading up on boxes of bullets intended to pierce our flesh to break our bones to…
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Equity Begins at Home
By Katherine West Equity is something that is dealt with in D.C. or not dealt with in those red states that still use the “n” word or in big cities with big crime . . . where is the white channel on this police radio? not in this small town in this blue state where…
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Vacuum
By Guyon Prince Artist’s Statement: This collage takes a smiling, vacuuming lady from a 1950s LIFE Magazine advertisement and recontextualizes her. As we know, in the 50s it was largely (and incorrectly) assumed that most women were happy to stay home and tend the house and kids every day, while men went out…
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26 Oct. 2020: A rap on Barrett’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court
Kathleen Minor, Trump’s court, US Supreme Court, Declaration of Independence rap, Poetry, Amy Coney BarrettBy Kathleen Minor The dude who refused to denounce white supremacy, tried to nuke a hurricane and our democracy, puts kids in cages and promotes segregation. That dude? Rewrote the Declaration. We hold these truths to be self-evident: If you ain’t white, you must be irrelevant. Listen. There seems to be some confusion. We’ve been…
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Suffocating
By Keily Blair The smell first strikes me while we’re traveling down the road, confined to a car. Brutal citrus and bitter herbs mingle in the air, gagging me. My grandmother notices this, and a rushed apology flees her lips despite the fact that I’ve told her countless times that strong scents send me…
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Deputized
By Holly A. Stovall Congratulations! You are Deputized! Abortion after 6 weeks is illegal in Texas. Help enforce the law by reporting an illegal abortion in the anonymous form below! How do you think the law has been violated? I’ve had three spontaneous abortions (that’s doctor lingo for miscarriages) in three years, each at…
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A Letter for My Unborn Daughter
By Debasish Mishra Dear daughter, this is a dark world Light is a mere plaything and if you were present here it’d diffract through the window and fall on your orange cheeks like petals of the sun But darkness is real How do I define it? Wherever you go, it’ll follow in the stares…
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Defiance
By Ethan Cunningham Artist’s Statement For me, the true beauty of this image is that it suggests a powerful story with very little. But for each person, that story can be very personal and very different. The silhouette acts as a stand-in for the viewer. I like to imagine this is a woman who…
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⌘lzibongo for Black Women
Kai Coggin, izibongo, in praise of Black women, Langston Hughes, Harriett Tubman, Rosa Parks, Black Lives Matter, Audre Lorde, Poetry, Maya Angelou, Breonna Taylor, #BLMBy Kai Coggin a praise poem, after JP Howard, for my Sisters praise you Black Woman because you never be praised enough let me lift your collective name here let me strip you of all your forced-on shame here praise you for the stars that unfold when you smile praise you for the way…