It’s April, which means baby animals, Earth Day, sunshine, and poetry.
(If this list isn’t gritty enough for you, try October, month of blindness awareness, pizza, opals, and pagan celebrations.)
April is a good month for poets. We can sit on the porch,…
Poverty tourism is only the most recent form of the evolution of the particular fascination (stand well back, but let us peer at you, curiously) that the upper classes have with the lower. The current mutation of poverty tourism includes a well meaning, upper/middle class, first world people, who are for whatever reason turned onto going to Africa (and it’s always Africa, isn’t it) to learn about how the starving children that show up on their TVs and their destitute parents live.
From Kennedy Odede, a Kenyan university student:
“Slum tourism has its advocates, who say it promotes social awareness. And it’s good money, which helps the local economy.
But it’s not worth it. Slum tourism turns poverty into entertainment, something that can be momentarily experienced and then escaped from. People think they’ve really “seen” something — and then go back to their lives and leave me, my family and my community right where we were before”
Again, didn’t add the text, but wow…
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Everybody knows that good writing takes good reading. To make up for the un-writing I am doing, I am reading many many books, all by women. A recap:
GUT Symmetries – Jeanette Winterson
Oranges are Not The Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Guardians–…
Avid submitters: Duotrope, everyone’s favorite free submission manager, is PAID-ONLY as of January 1st. Now, after you get over that initial panicked moment of despair, anguish, and terror, consider this: writers have been around since long before…
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A couple who’d moved into an all-white neighbourhood looks at graffiti scrawled in front of their home. Chicago, 1957.
Francis Miller
There are many things worthy of a poem: the weather, an especially delicious cupcake, the erotic whoosh of a freshly laundered cotton dress, dreams. In truth, the realm of the poetic is wide open to discovery and exploration (of the non-colonizing…
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Any tips from fellow radicals on how to deal with the oppressively hegemonic discourse happening within my family-slash-the world during my vegan thxgiving celebration?
Just trying to destress and cook some vegan stuffing y’all.
Hey friends. A big fat thank you to our readers at the JB Reading Series last Friday, John Crutchfield, Katherine Min, Katey Schultz, and Chett Tiller. The line-up was diverse, engaging, energizing, and tons of fun. This reading was particularly exciting…
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CHAPTERS
1. I Don’t See Color (I Just Imagine Everyone In Stories As White)
2. Privilege is Relative
3. We All Bleed Red Pt. I
4. Stop Racism. Have Mixed Babies.
5. I Didn’t MEAN To Be Racist, Therefore What I Did Wasn’t Racist
6. White Women Have It Worse Than Men…
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Jesse, Asheville North Carolina
poet, essayist, rabble-rouser, rejecter of binaries, explorer, vegan, maker of witticisms & chronicles galore, charades champion
likes: African jazz, Emma Goldman, reading, greens, hip hop, Spanish wine, carob, J.M. Coetzee, Mark Doty, The X-Files, dance parties, writers
dislikes: milk, psychology, Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, Lord Tennyson, too much bluegrass, yuppies
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