Writing is an act of resistance
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To the Man Who Shouted “What does your pussy taste like?!” as I Ran By
By Courtney LeBlanc It tastes briny, like the ocean. It surges, waves pounding the surf, punishing the sand simply for always being there, for always being present, for never leaving well enough alone. I keep running, ready to drown him in a sea of my pounding feet. Previously published by Rising Phoenix Review. Courtney…
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March, redoubled: When plans go South by K Walton
Hi, Julie, Thank you for writing your essay, “March, interrupted: When plans go South” (Writers Resist, February 2, 2017 issue). Thank you for raising your pen in service of the movement and for speaking from a place of awareness and resistance. Thank you for lifting up hope in the face of all the fear and…
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Two poems by two poets
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Fun to Be Fabulous
By C. Gregory Thompson “You look just like my aunt,” the woman said to us, looking at my friend, Sara. “But, of course, she’s dead now.” We were perched on the aqua blue cushions of an outdoor couch on what we jokingly referred to as the “lanai” at Rancho Las Palmas, a resort in Palm…
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84 Lumber Super Bowl ad: The uncensored film
Journey 84, anti-Trump Super Bowl ad, anti-Muslim ban ad, Video, 84 Lumber Super Bowl film, Fox censors Super Bowl adFrom the family-owned 84 Lumber Company The original 84 Lumber Super Bowl advertisement created a stir: The content was deemed too controversial by Fox, which banned it from broadcast. An edited version was cut for the game, and The Washington Post published a story about it—because the controversy was reportedly due to the depiction of Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.…
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The Women’s March Issue
Having recovered from the rewarding demands of the Women’s March on Washington—and across the nation and around the world—we are just not ready to give up that fabulous feeling. To sustain it a bit longer, in this week’s issue we feature the works of four writers who marched or would have, had death not defied intent.…
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March, interrupted: When plans go South
By Julie M. Friesen I’m at the center of the world right now, but soon I’ll go far right of center, to Southwest Georgia. My husband has lost a grandmother, and his mother has lost her mother. I need to be there, meaning I can’t be here. After November 8, a groundswell movement has…
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America the Beautiful
By Brenda Davis Harsham Shoulder to shoulder with people determined to be heard, holding up signs in weary arms, speaking in tweets to a man who cannot turn his back and ignore millions around the country and around the world. No one can expect to be heard if he will not listen. I hear all of…
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Why I marched
By Julie Harthill Clayton Two Saturdays ago, I stood, marched, cried, chanted and exercised my first amendment right “peaceably to assemble” with a diverse sea of humanity–500,000 or more–for the Women’s March on Washington. It was one of the most memorable and moving experiences of my life. Why did I march? Because “women’s rights are…