Politics

What I know about grief, but what I choose to ignore until it becomes relevant, is that sometimes take a shower, brush your hair, put on make-up, get dressed become…

“The rats are everywhere,” the exterminator says, rolling up the blue sleeves on his overall. I tell him he doesn’t have to take off his shoes, but he quickly reprimands…

Newsha Tavakolian’s album, Look (2013), can be viewed as the culmination of the developmental process her photographic language had to undergo under the restrictive politics of Iran. The students’ uprising…

On May 9th, 2017, President Donald Trump fired F.B.I Director James Comey. This poem is an erasure cut directly from the President’s letter informing James Comey of his termination. —…

Dear Poets, Writers, Artists, Friends, and Allies: It’s spring in Georgia and unfortunately this means that our university system is once again under threat by the gun lobby. Last week…

While Little Rock artist and art teacher Laura Raborn generally focuses on figurative oil paintings, the weeks before the November 8th Presidential election impelled her to create collages incorporating Donald…

by which I think you mean—you’ll correct me if I’m wrong—that the arts aren’t really, if we get down to it, necessary. With that, I’m inclined to agree. Neither is…

I am not an avid protester, despite my history as a graduate from a proud hippie-college and my work with the National Organization for Women in my twenties. The t-shirt…

I Went To The Movies For a few hours now, I have been working on this article about self-care and trauma in the context of protest and action. Now I…

What started as a Facebook post created by a retired attorney from Hawaii to protest the results of the election turned, overnight, into a massive movement. During the Women’s March…

Author’s note: The dates next to each definition are the Oxford English Dictionary’s first known recording of that particular definition’s use (in English). The purpose of this is to showcase…

Like I imagine many of us are during this “what should have been” moment in women’s history, I have been thinking about the women in my family from past generations.…

Featured Image Credit: Image by Ted Eytan via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) The night after Trump is elected, my friend offers another protestor Mike n Ikes. It is two hours…

November 9th, 2016 was not the end of the world. This isn’t the first time a demagogue used an existing system to take control of a country. It certainly isn’t the first…