On a show where the hard-working, virtuous, “good” families are the lily-white Hortons and Bradys, and the criminal, selfish “bad” families are of a darker hue (the Greek-American Kiriakises and…
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War on American Amnesia June 17, 1971 Statement from President Richard Nixon [Revised June 24, 2019] America’s public enemy number one in the United States is American Repression and Amnesia1.…
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[Image by Alison James] Ted Cruz Is Sad About His Beard this morning. He’s more aware of the Internet than anyone thinks he is and this is not the meme…
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In the past weeks, a collective of women writers and women working in publishing in Mexico, known as #MujeresJuntasMarabunta, gathered to start a subversive action against the systematic violence and…
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As we head into the end of 2018 and the second year of the Trump administration, I still find it difficult to believe that he is at the helm of…
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The Fakery of ‘Fake News’ I remember the days when we all got our news in the morning or evening at 5 o’clock, 6 o’clock or 11 o’clock from one…
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[Image Credit: Tyler Scully] Where were you the day he resigned? We were in Cleveland. With so many allegations unfurling, some days felt precarious, as if hitting refresh one more…
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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…
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“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…
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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…
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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. —…
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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…
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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…
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—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…
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