Writing is an act of resistance
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A Century of Chipping at the Ceiling
Robbie Gamble poet, Jeannette Rankin, The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History, Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith, Gloria Steinem, EssayBy Robbie Gamble When I was seven years old, my parents escorted me into a room in a retirement home in Carmel, CA, to meet an old friend of the family. She was a slight, elderly woman with a friendly face and a clear strong voice, and she knew how to set a fidgety, slightly…
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3 a.m. November 11, 2016 Turtle Cove Cottage Po’ipu, Kaua’i
By Chris Cummings and David Cummings * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * D: Drain the swamp he brays the president-elect from his gold leaf bedroom in his gold leaf tower Drain it he inveighs * * * * * * * * …
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When the New Cabinet Exercises
By Tricia Knoll They will be back where the snow falls on camp tents, cookfires and legends of stars so cold you know they froze in the middle of a myth of creation where someone blue lifted up the egg and old women sang the birth song. They will be back when snow is…
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Transition Team
By I.E. Sommsin I.E. Sommsin, a writer and artist from Kentucky, lives in San Francisco. The images, ink and watercolor on shirt cardboard, don’t represent individual persons, but are symbolic of the transition the country is now making.
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Divided We Stand
By Janice Grinsell Pastel drawing on paper/ iphoneography composite. Artist’s statement “Divided We Stand” was born on election night when the sea of red pushed into a nauseous realization that Trump would be … Janice Grinsell is a multidisciplinary artist fascinated with the exploration and combination of media. She has a vast portfolio that…
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A Prose Poem by Alina Stefanescu
When You Send an Email Asking for Money to Support That Mission Bringing Jesus to Romania I was born in a land wiped clean from the maps, a place you associate with AIDS-stricken orphans, tucked into Balkans, needing your bibles. Idiots needing salvation. Peasants needing administrations of missionary impulse. Come clear-cut this culture. Plant a…
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The Prescription
By Carolyn Ziel My friend Jill posted a picture of Steve Bannon on Facebook with his quote, “Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.” Jill’s comment was “Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!” My response was “hash tag medical marijuana.” I was kidding when I wrote it. But on Tuesday afternoon at…
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Gentle Bones
By Suzanne O’Connell I. Darkness is upon us all. The old tree kneels like always to sip from the water. Poison pen letters were returned for insufficient postage. Girls wear safety pins and march in the street. The house is dark. The dachshund-shaped lamp, is steadfast, sitting in its halo of light. II. Darkness is…
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President Truman calls on all liberals and progressives
Address in St. Paul at the Municipal Auditorium. October 13, 1948, worth revisiting today Mr. Mayor, and fellow Democrats of Minnesota: Tonight, I pay tribute to the liberal spirit of the people of Minnesota—in the cities, on the farms, in the forests, and in the iron country of this great State. In this center of…