Writing is an act of resistance
Welcome to Amplified Voices, a Special Issue of Writers Resist
Since the Vietnam War, violent conflict has been made visible to even the least likely victims, on televisions, then phones, now raging across social media—and laden with passionate opinions, well-informed and not. From politicians and [...]
From the Editor of Amplified Voices
By DW McKinney These words—the ones in this note and the ones in this issue—are difficult to write. Do not look away from them. Let them sink into you. I am writing this editor’s [...]
They Are All Terrorists
By Lori Yeghiayan Friedman is what my (now long-dead) mother used to say to the TV news reports of the bombings, beheadings, settlements, kidnappings, hijackings, imprisonments, killings―the latest eruptions of violence in a region [...]
Two Poems by Saheed Sunday
a daggerpoint & what is salvation if not how we give our body to beauty to the memory of what does not rust —Othuke Umukoro the Sunday before this one, the catechist warned about [...]
![Hand-lettered sign reading: [Aid workers in Gaza] are bringing their children to work with them so that if they die they die together —Juliette Touma, UNRWA Director of Communications](https://i0.wp.com/www.writersresist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/aidworkers.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1)
Caught in the Crossfire of a Madding Crowd
By J.D. Harlock caught in the crossfire of a madding crowd, the child runs into the arms of her mother and nestles herself 'neath a limp arm drenched in blood, dreading the glare of [...]
Gauze
By Lisa Suhair Majaj when you learn that “gauze” comes from Gaza you will begin to understand how light passing through translucent fabric illuminates the delicate porous openings between threads that interweave to allow [...]