Writing is an act of resistance
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84 Lumber Super Bowl ad: The uncensored film
anti-Trump Super Bowl ad, anti-Muslim ban ad, Video, 84 Lumber Super Bowl film, Fox censors Super Bowl ad, Journey 84From the family-owned 84 Lumber Company The original 84 Lumber Super Bowl advertisement created a stir: The content was deemed too controversial by Fox, which banned it from broadcast. An edited version was cut for the game, and The Washington Post published a story about it—because the controversy was reportedly due to the depiction of Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.…
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The Women’s March Issue
Having recovered from the rewarding demands of the Women’s March on Washington—and across the nation and around the world—we are just not ready to give up that fabulous feeling. To sustain it a bit longer, in this week’s issue we feature the works of four writers who marched or would have, had death not defied intent.…
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March, interrupted: When plans go South
By Julie M. Friesen I’m at the center of the world right now, but soon I’ll go far right of center, to Southwest Georgia. My husband has lost a grandmother, and his mother has lost her mother. I need to be there, meaning I can’t be here. After November 8, a groundswell movement has…
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America the Beautiful
By Brenda Davis Harsham Shoulder to shoulder with people determined to be heard, holding up signs in weary arms, speaking in tweets to a man who cannot turn his back and ignore millions around the country and around the world. No one can expect to be heard if he will not listen. I hear all of…
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Why I marched
By Julie Harthill Clayton Two Saturdays ago, I stood, marched, cried, chanted and exercised my first amendment right “peaceably to assemble” with a diverse sea of humanity–500,000 or more–for the Women’s March on Washington. It was one of the most memorable and moving experiences of my life. Why did I march? Because “women’s rights are…
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Why we march
By Rachel Federman We march because we want to send a message to refugees, to Muslims, to members of the LGBTQ and African American communities, to recent immigrants and to all women, but especially young girls. The message is this: We stand with them and we will fight alongside them. Because we believe in…
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#NastyWoman by Nina Mariah
Performed by Ashley Judd at the Women’s March on Washington, here “Nasty Woman” is performed by the poet who authored it, Nina Donovan, who writers under the name Nina Mariah.
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Alternate Facts by Tim O’Brien
Satire, Image, Tim O’Brien illustrator, Kellyanne Conway, euphemism for lying, George Orwell 1984, alternative facts“The Little Golden Book of Alternate Facts” by Tim O’Brien builds upon the classic Little Golden Books to create a satyrical response to Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway’s euphemism “alternative facts.” She spoke the term on Meet the Press, Sunday 22 January 2017, when referencing false statements made by new White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer about…
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Funhouse
By Dick Eiden A pity such a sparkling world fell into our clumsy hands, soiled with petroleum and blood, slippery as a swindler leaving town at night past rows of homes for sale, scrawny trees tied to stakes on the boulevard. A pity our shoes were untied, our feet not planted, we didn’t look up…