Writing is an act of resistance
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Active 3D printer situation
By Tara Campbell Before you download the plans for your AR-15 please also download the plans for our son In case of loss please reprint the following: one son who loves his dog and his friends at school and his little sister and even his parents you know he’s still young enough to say…
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From the Field
By Anthony Ceballos With the barrel of a gun, you have drawn a line in the soil and told us to stay on our side, we are merely creatures of the dirt to you; from us you have taken food and shelter, water and dignity, our children swallow thorns and pride is hanging from…
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Out of Brokenness
By Kathy Lauderdale December 25, 2016 finds me in Richmond, Virginia, trying to put a festive face forward while feeling stark desolation and heartache. The election leaves me questioning the values of my neighbors. Everything I know to be true has shifted, resulting in an odd sense of being off balance. My sweet daughter-in-law,…
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This Union
By Samara Golabuk In the hegemony of discontinuity, we have laughter on the stairs that flies up like a murder of crows into brushed metal skies tasting nothing like the pure rule of dog law. In the circling year, spiders crawl through our eyes while our hearts sing ruddy bloody chanties ripe with crocus…
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Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, Again
By Anastasia Vassos She stops, breathless, she lifts her heel behind her to straighten her stocking before she pulls at her jacket to make sure there are no wrinkles, before she runs into H.R. breathless to tell Susan, who’s sitting at her desk, that Bob continues to make lewd comments and won’t let it go,…
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Behold the Anti-Trump March in London
Make the Planet Great Again, Ollie Hayes, Image, Anti-Trump demonstration London, Dump Trump, Courage calls to courage everywhere, Millicent Fawcett, Trump Fossil FoolIllustration reportage by Ollie Hayes Demonstrators with statue of Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, London Demonstrators with small Trump Baby balloon, near Parliament Square, London Demonstrator with flag of the European Union, Regent Street, London Young woman with statue of activist and suffragist Millicent Fawcett Parliament Square, London Demonstrators at the Bring the Noise march, Regent…
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A Year Later
By Brit Barnhouse What you’re eating isn’t healthy. Do you see it? You always said the Holy Trifecta of impolite conversation was money, religion, and politics, and I ate it up until I starved on lack of substance. Do you see that you’re withering too? I’m not asking for atonement, as if mistakes could…
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America Is Waiting
By Georg Koszulinski maybe it’s the white bodies leaving the ball or maybe it’s the tuxedos and gowns that walk like ghosts across the mall maybe it’s the black bodies chained across checkpoints subverting iconographies of hate or maybe it’s the cops who stand in silent symmetries beneath the rain maybe it’s the sadness in…
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An Explanation
By Faith Breisblatt As far as I’m concerned, there was only one choice. If I turned down every candidate who objectified women, I’d vote for no one. You get through the bad and focus on the good. Did I feel dirty? Yes. Look at how much he relies on his daughter— kind of reminds…