Writing is an act of resistance
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Coming Home
By Nathan Porceng Another thing romanticized by media and movies, no banners, no kisses, no parades, and frankly I’m thankful for that. What I’m NOT thankful for is this 12 hour overnight layover in the barren Oakland airport. Air Force pains to foot the bill to fly its “brothers” home, so we go civilian.…
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I Turn 39 During the Pandemic and My Husband Asks Me to Buy a Gun
By Brianna Pike while we sit in our kitchen, our son asleep upstairs. Earlier, I sat on our back deck, the sunlight beating bold over the lawn as my son streaked across the newly green grass, falling over & over into its softness. It is my birthday & I did not expect this gift of…
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Responsibility
By James Scruton If they don’t treat me right, then I don’t call. Maybe Pence or someone else will do it. I don’t take responsibility at all. These governors want me to take the fall. But I show them who’s boss, tweet after tweet. If they won’t treat me right, I just won’t call.…
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Endings are beginnings
Hi, folks, K-B and Sara launched Writers Resist with the intention of shutting it down once Trump was out of office. Thankfully, he’s departing sooner rather than four years later, so our ritual killing is nigh. We birthed this baby on 01 December 2016, twenty-two days after Trump was elected, with Rae Rose as our poetry editor. You…
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Nobody Likes Spock
By Sarah Colón Spock scrolls through his Facebook feed in the early hours of the morning. He hasn’t been sleeping well, and the blue light from his phone shining upward reveals dark circles around his eyes. Today, someone is posting a long description of the origins of the virus. “PROOF that it was created…
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Post-Election Meltdown
By Marcella Remund I am 60 years old. In my lifetime, my mother’s lifetime, and all the lifetimes that came before, no woman has been president. Don’t tell me to get over it I have TRAINED blonde footballers for jobs I couldn’t get without a penis, jobs that paid ten times my single-mom salary.…
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A Friability Test
By Kimutai Allan You can try muzzling the press and stifling healthy discourse. They are actions, easy. It’s a different tale down in our hearts. You can’t break us. We aren’t as friable as your petty thoughts deem. Kimutai Allan is an emerging Kenyan writer. His works have been published previously by The Active…
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Reading Aloud in Kidjail
By Jill McDonough The boys in my local juvie want to work one on one, write stories, poems, mark up the stuff I give them. More than one kid at a time’s less fun: more fussing, more holding back to show how tough they are. When one of them writes on the other’s paper…
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The Notorious
By Alex Penland Do you remember Yad Vashem? How the path that leads you through the exhibit is chronological and single lined, each point presented on a hair pin turn of events: here is where a new legislation was passed, here is where some diplomat died, here is where the people thought oh, one…