Will Fraker: Gender is Dead, Long Live Gender
Just what is ‘performativity’? Gender is burdened by a lot of adjectives these days. It’s non-binary, it’s fluid, it’s ‘over’. According to the American rapper Young Thug, an artist at … Continue reading
Laura Bonham: Citizens United vs. United Citizens — The Showdown of the Century
With the presidency of Donald Trump, the fusion of government and corporate rule is complete. When the US Supreme Court decided in favor of the plaintiff in the Citizens United … Continue reading
Sam Hamill: Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks
When I was a boy on a Utah farm,
I listened to Chicago blues and dreamed
of the city’s big shoulders and wide arms
and the roads leading up from the Delta
Sandy Solomon: Little Letter to the Future I
In our time we reckoned our dead in firearms— handguns, rifles, automatic weapons; in much-parsed constitutional clauses; in politicians bought by lobbyists and salesmen. In our time, we objected most … Continue reading
Lawrence Bush: Where are the Inspiring Speeches Now?
More and more I feel that people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this … Continue reading
Medea Benjamin: I am American, Jewish and banned from Israel for my activism
This month, the Israeli government announced that activists affiliated with 20 organizations, including my organization Codepink, would be banned from entering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories because of our … Continue reading
Majid Naficy: Helen
Sometimes I see Helen Passing by Wearing a long skirt. She pushes a metal walker Scraping against the ground. She always asks: “Sir! What day is today? What day is … Continue reading
Video: Gatekeeper
. ‘Their cries, their wishes, their hopes… I feel a sense of duty towards them.’ With about 70 self-inflicted deaths per day, Japan has one of the highest suicide rates … Continue reading
Video: Wallace Stegner’s “A Letter to Congress” (with complete text included)
. Director Christopher Newman says of this film: I originally set out to make this film as a sort of homage to Wallace Stegner and the enduring words he wrote … Continue reading
Audio: Hieronymous Bosch Butt Music
. A 600 year old butt song from Hell. Oklahoma Christian University student Amelia Hamrick has transcribed a piece of music hidden in Hieronymus Bosch’s 16th century painting The Garden … Continue reading
Video: Cormac McCarthy explains how a 9-5 job limits your artistic potential
. As Cormac McCarthy tells Oprah Winfrey in 2007 during his first television interview ever, he has made his creative work the central focus of his life to the exclusion … Continue reading
Walter Bargen: Real Rumors
Now that it’s done being undone, or, at least, the end of the beginning of undone, depending on the harrumphing water pumps and which side of the bulldozer blade is … Continue reading
Abby Zimet: On Genealogical Glass Houses
. The Racist-In-Chief continues to spout his pitiless rhetoric on immigration – aka don’t want no more brown-skinned people in my wannabe chaste white kingdom – even appropriating the memory … Continue reading
