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 universities around the globe to PEN America to Oscar Awards speeches, emotionally bloody conflict—about conflict—reigns over solutions, while innocent civilians suffer. [...]
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 hellfire and its odor of smoky taste. he said it would come unto us like the clouds, breaking off whatever remains [...]
By Maira Faisal “You ask: What is the meaning of ‘homeland’? "They will say: The house, the mulberry tree, the chicken coop, the beehive, the smell of bread, and the first sky. "You ask: Can a word of eight letters be big enough for all of these, yet too small for us?” — from In the [...]
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