Writing is an act of resistance
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Just a Short Note to Say Something You Already Know
By Lawrence Matsuda For Donald’s Daughter, Ivanka Trump Ivanka, in a different time and place, you and your children are squeezed into cattle cars destined for Nazi death camps. Stars pinned to your coats and numbers tattooed on your arm. Religion is your crime, something like the 120,000 Japanese Americans whose race incarcerates…
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The Completely Imaginary Trump/Russia Theory that May or May Not Prove To Be True or False
By Amy Porterfield Levy 1987 – The Art of the Deal: Nukes Edition Trump decides that Moscow needs a Trump hotel and, like every good realtor, he thinks about how good he would be at solving nuclear proliferation issues. Trump: I have a great idea because real estate deals are just like nuclear arms…
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A Poem and Translation
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A List by Noria Jablonski
25 things, post-election: Normally I shy away from posting anything too personal, but this time isn’t normal. A year and a half ago I was diagnosed with MS. My professional life came to an abrupt end. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, I currently have access to health insurance. The medication I take to slow…
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Cagey
By Koushik Banerjea “What are you doing?” He was surprised by the question, believing himself to have been alone. He had been admiring himself in a shard of mirror he had found earlier, discarded on the dirt road snaking around the park. Gauging his reflection, he tried to look haughty, then severe, by turns…
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When Our Culture Is Los Angeles Instead of Joshua Tree, This Is How We Elect a President
By Peter Brown Hoffmeister Part I Sunrise, the first day in Joshua Tree, a Purple-Bibbed Hummingbird flits and dips into the late March blooms off my back patio, and a male House Finch, head red as a carpet in Hollywood, chatters with his mate about mosquito meals and black-fly-bacon for breakfast. I turn and watch…
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Curry’s Common Ground
By Mary Petiet The man behind the counter glances between the potent spice mixes and my ten-year-old son. “You like this?” the man asks in a heavy Pakistani accent. He starts ringing up the sale, and cultures connect as my blond towhead grins widely and tells him he loves curry. When I was ten years…
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i’m sawing off my roots
By Cyrus Parker watching the place i had called home for twenty-five years turn red for the first time in twenty-four— on a night that would determine the future of not only myself, but so many other people, many whose entire livelihoods were on the line— was the first time i had ever been…
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Miscarriage
By Heather Herrman A month ago, I lost my daughter to a miscarriage. Science did not tell me she was a girl, but I knew it through every bone in my body. My great-grandmother, Wilhelmina Volk, came from Germany when she was sixteen to an arranged marriage with a drunk. The man gave her…