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Commentary: It’s not her fault, but…
My friend said, “It’s not her fault, but …” and I gasped. In the wake of four rapes and one sexual assault reported at Cal State San Marcos this September, and the filing of a civil case alleging gang rape at Cornell University, chatter on every platform has been plentiful — informed and otherwise. None of it is surprising. Those who are enlightened grasp the opportunity to educate the public.
Ofrenda for Resistance
By Jordan Alejandro Rivera Tier I: Inframundo Poppy and cempasúchil petals Intermingled as our destinies Blood, bones, and stems Obsidian spearheads And shattered sugar skulls Tier II: Tierra Tomatoes, white sapotes, and olives Laid out on a lattice-patterned scarf Ten thousand and forty-three Candles flicker in harmony Guiding us here together Wax binds our food Tier III: Cielo A black-and-white photo of us Before our disappearances And now, finally, We found our way back home.
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 universities around the globe to PEN America to Oscar Awards speeches, emotionally bloody conflict—about conflict—reigns over solutions, while innocent civilians suffer.
Suburban Median
By Myna Chang We see the body on the way to drop our kids off at school. It’s in the median at the Parkway stoplight. We don’t recognize what it is, at first. Understanding comes in pieces: leg, arm, slender foot. Naked, of course. We try to look away. But is it someone we know? Nestled there in the ragweed and road debris, snarled hair hiding her face. We gather over coffee. Talk about what we saw, how we tried to protect our children from it. Close your eyes, baby. Blood pounding in our ears.
Justice Clarence Thomas Ate My Fucking Plums
By Christina Bagni after William Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the ice box and which you were probably relying on forever Forgive me you didn’t deserve them they were always mine to take Forgive me but the icebox was always meant to be empty it came that way and that’s how god told me it should be So I have eaten the plums that were in the ice box to return order to your cold empty world I did it for you, you see. Forgive me.
Prolapse
By Tara Campbell The uterus is tired. The uterus is sorry but it can’t seem to stay in one place anymore, which isn’t surprising considering how often it’s been poked and prodded and pricked by congressmen’s pens. The uterus would like to get in a word of its own, just one, even edgewise just one goddamn word.
Hollow
By William Palmer What happened January 6 was forgettably minor, the most popular Fox host claimed on June 9, the first night of the House Select Committee’s Report, so forgettably minor he did not allow any commercials during his show, decreasing the chances viewers might stray, or might consider the view that what had happened was unforgettably major and that the host was therefore lying and that when they hear him claim January 6 was not an insurrection but simply vandalism, they might...
Body Before Extinction
By Emily Hockaday I sing to the water and lower my only child into the foam, wiggling toes first. I think about all the species the ocean held that I don’t know the names of that have gone extinct this past year and focus on the sound of the waves and all the metaphors that the tide could cover. I have walked this beach and pulled balloons, broken bottles, cracked plastic, and wristwatches from the surf and dunes without seeing another person for miles.
Issue 136: 23 June 2022 – Writers Resist
What I Learn By Editor| June 23rd, 2022|Categories: Issue 136: 23 June 2022|Tags: Poetry, sexual assault, child abuse, Lorna Rose| By Lorna Rose I listen to the sweaty silence, his throbbing presence as he stares at my developing chest. I learn to calculate the tides. Learn his breath smells like mints when he’s offering me up. Men’s gazes have teeth. Pivot and scan for the response he wants at the appropriate time. You’re pretty. Perform [...]
Events
Friday 05 March 7:30 to 9:00 pm Pacific Amirah Al Wassif is a freelance writer based in Egypt. Her prolific output includes general interest articles, novels, short stories, songs, and of course, poetry. Five of her books have been written in Arabic and much of her English work has appeared in a great many cultural magazines. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Kurdish, Hindi and Arabic.
The Editorial
The Editorial By Trevor Scott Barton Jan sat at her desk, staring at a blank page in her notebook. Her left hand was balled into a fist sitting in the palm of her right hand. She shrugged her shoulders deeply and lifted her head from the page. She had pulled up the blinds on the large window facing Main Street, hoping to fill her office with light from the breaking day outside. Early risers, in heavy coats and gloves, hurried from frosted cars toward the warmth of the restaurant across the street.
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Issue 111: 28 May 2020 – Writers Resist
War By Editor| 2020-05-26T13:59:13-07:00 May 28th, 2020|Categories: Issue 111: 28 May 2020|Tags: Poetry, Linda E. Goodliffe| By Linda E. Goodliffe Stolen sanity childhood classroom teacher hummus art photographs home garden cow goat silver Fire skin IED arm RPG spine grenade leg bunker buster drone strike mushroom cloud burn pit Rape gang woman child knife vulva vagina cervix uterus bladder breasts Feasting oligarch cat dog vulture on human carcass Linda E.
Studio inspires super comic book art - Experts wax academic about how comic books once relegated to childhood entertainment are really so much more. They study comic books as cultural artifacts reflections of a society its values and prejudices it...
Booom is the first character created by Little Fish Comic Book Studio in College Area (Courtesy Little Fish Comic Book Studio) slideshow Little Fish Comic Book Studio founder and executive director, teaching a class (Photo by by Ash Esparza) slideshow Experts wax academic about how comic books, once relegated to childhood entertainment, are really so much more. They study comic books as cultural artifacts — reflections of a society, its values and prejudices, its fears and aspirations.
Marine, special agent, author and dad - Mission Valley News
Glance at Mission Valley resident Cody Perron and he might strike you as a fit, young professional, with a well-trimmed beard and hairline threatening to recede — a mild-mannered man with a pleasant Louisiana drawl. And you’d be wrong. This man is from Cajun Country. “When it comes to rough and tumble, we’re outdoorsmen and fighters, and we like challenges,” Perron said during a recent interview.
Where fiction and fact come together - Gay San Diego
Joseph Olshan’s 10th novel, “Black Diamond Fall” (Polis Books, Sept. 18), entwines three rich narrative strands: a crime drama, a lush love story, and a poignant reflection of the damage socially regulated gender roles can wreak on the innocent. Luc, focal point of this literary mystery, is a bright college student with a lingering, childhood brain injury.
ArtWalk - Gay San Diego
Sea glass has captured the human imagination for millennia, with its naturally frosted deep pastels, and it continues to inspire artists today. Mission Valley is home to two such artists, jewelry makers Gene Allen and his husband Rex Nockengust. Together, they design and create sea glass and silver jewelry reminiscent of ancient Egypt, yet designed with a contemporary flair.
Artists’ sea glass captivates at ArtWalk - Mission Valley News
Sea glass has captured the human imagination for millennia, with its naturally frosted deep pastels, and it continues to inspire artists today. Mission Valley is home to two such artists, jewelry makers Gene Allen and his husband Rex Nockengust. Together, they design and create sea glass and silver jewelry reminiscent of ancient Egypt, yet designed with a contemporary flair.
‘The Magic Tunnel’ - Mission Valley News
Public art has a long and varied history in the San Diego region. Ancient petroglyphs; Depression-era artworks and architecture; even a sculpture at Scripps Research Institute, described by some as resembling dinosaur excrement — they have all done what public artworks are intended to do. They engage the public in a distinct place, the people who live and work and play there.
Our List
We are making a list of people who could hurt us. Their names often are not easy to spell. Could Al Sharkey, auto mechanic in Michigan, be one of the al-Sharki clan of Yemen? With no easy way to know, our list will claim he is not one we can trust.
Playgrounds and Politics
“Nobody would pass me the ball. Even kids who I thought were my friends wouldn’t pass me the ball.” These words from my nine-year-old, after another round of recess, Darwinism style, bounced around in my head like a bright orange basketball stealing my sleep at 2:00 a.m. and making me despise a group of four-foot tall fourth graders. “I blame Trump,” I tell my husband (also at 2:00 a.m.).
What You Need to Know
My 11-year-old son tried to stab me with his fork. This was 5 seconds after calling me a stupid bitch. 15 seconds after I told him to go to time out. 33 seconds after I found he had played with a lighter and snuck candy from the cupboard. 1 minute after he said, “I love you, Mommy.” 20 minutes after I hugged him while we made lunch together. An hour after he finished binge watching Pokémon Season: 1 on a lazy President’s Day morning.
Author finds ‘Sanctuary’ among rescued animals - Gay San Diego
Book lovers often try to find the authors hidden in fictional works, guessing which characters most resemble their creators. Other books lay their authors bare, their raw experiences revealed with hope — for understanding, compassion, shared enlightenment.
Multicultural holiday festival arrives in Mission Valley - Mission Valley News - Mission Valley News
Lulu Huang traveled to the United States from China for a visit in 1994 – and she’s still here today. Instead of returning to her homeland, she started a computer company, had two kids and became inspired. “[I] wanted to do something for children,” Huang said. She decided to start a cultural experience that was fun and educational. Many years before, Huang had seen China’s Lantern Festival, a tradition that is more than 2,000 years old. “I never can forget that,” she said.
Coming out a second time - Gay San Diego
New book tells new gay dads how to juggle things like pee blockers… and even their own hormones While it’s true that “a rose is a rose is a rose,” Gertrude Stein was surely aware that one is not identical to the next. Rather, there are differences in petals’ shapes, in the curve of each thorn, the dentation of each leaf. And so it is with parents.
Submissions - Writers Resist
Writers Resist, a literary journal born of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, publishes creative expressions of resistance by diverse writers and artists. We are dedicated to challenging all things that diminish our nation’s quest for equality, freedom, justice and a healthy planet for all—while having a bit of fun. Please submit works that can be reasonably described as expressions of resistance, whether poetry, fiction, narrative nonfiction, essays or images.
A personal memoir - Gay San Diego
Bestselling author writes of when homosexuality was an ‘illness’ Bestselling author and journalist Steven Gaines is prolific. With 13 published books, nine of them in the realm of biography, Gaines has made an art of getting into other people’s heads — and letting them into his. He has written or co-written insightful portrayals of such luminaries as The Beatles, Alice Cooper, The Beach Boys, and fashion designers Halston and Calvin Klein.
Can We Talk About Banned Trump Books?
One balmy day in Fallbrook, Calif., in the far Republican reaches of San Diego County, a book disrupted the normal flow of events. The sweet scent of our citrus blossoms did not sour, our avocado crops didn’t shrivel, nor did our town’s trademark friendliness turn nasty. What did happen was that our public county library system banned Not My President: The Anthology of Dissent (Thoughtcrime, fall 2017) from the author series I organize, hosted by our local library.
‘Notes on a Banana,’ a rich, enlightening memoir - Gay San Diego
Prepare one large stack of index cards, each containing the memory of a significant life event, its date and the author’s age at the time in one corner. Arrange the cards in chronological order. Mix in three themes — food, love and bipolar disorder — and stir gently. Skim off those cards that don’t blend well, and serve with humor, courage and poignant epiphany.
Santa Fe Marketplace returns to Old Town - Mission Valley News - Mission Valley News
For more than 35 years, the Bazaar del Mundo, in Old Town San Diego, has hosted Santa Fe Marketplace, a Southwestern art show and sale. This year is no exception. The popular event will be Sept. 15 and 16, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Shoppers can meander a vast selection of fine arts and crafts in the outdoor marketplace, have a bite to eat, and learn directly from the artists about the unique characteristics of their work, which originates in the U.S. Southwest and Native American cultures.
Jamming all day and night - Mission Valley News - Mission Valley News
Art Institute of California’s Game Jam contest for video game developers is a 48-hour affair To the uninitiated, “game jam” is an odd paring of words with ambiguous meaning. It could be anything from parlor games for scouts to an unctuous breakfast toast spread made from wild animals. But to video game makers and aficionados, a game jam is an intense and exhilarating opportunity to strut their game-creation stuff. And just such an opportunity is coming up this month in Mission Valley.
Celebrate the arts at heART of Mt. Helix - La Mesa Courier
La Mesa’s Mt. Helix will come alive with the sound of music — and food, drink, art, dancing and general frivolity — at the 10th annual heART of Mt. Helix fundraiser on Saturday, Aug. 10, from 5 to 10 p.m. The event is for adults only, age 21 and older. The fundraiser is organized by the Mt. Helix Park Foundation, which serves as trustee of the private family trust that established the park in 1929. The event raises a third of the park’s annual $300,000 budget, which funds park operations.
40 Strangers 50 Questions | Writers Resist
40 Strangers 50 Questions From Brave New Films On Wednesday, May 24 at 6:30 PM, 40 strangers entered a small photography studio near downtown Los Angeles. On the floor, they found strips of white tape laid out in large boxes. In a few moments, a member of the Brave New Films production team would stand in front of a blue wall facing the 40 strangers and what happened next really surprised us all. Share this via your favorite social media.
The ‘wonder’ of it all - Mission Valley News - Mission Valley News
[Editor’s note: This is the second story in a two-part series on Wonderspaces. Read part one at bit.ly/2sQ821i.] “Wonderspaces: A Pop-Up Arts Celebration,” the brainchild of former Marines Jason Shin and Patrick Charles, opened June 2, and it indeed displays some wonders to behold — and to engage.
Former Marines bring interactive art to Mission Valley - Mission Valley News - Mission Valley News
Ever wish you could run away from adulthood and spend a wildly creative week at Burning Man? But the cost equates to coffee money for a year, or it uses up all your vacation time, or the kids make it a little awkward? What do you do? You call in the Marines. Seriously. Jason Shin and business partner Patrick Charles both transitioned out of the Corps in 2009, went to business school, and then collaborated on a new venture — in the arts.
The bird is (still) the word (nerd) - San Diego Downtown News
Upstart Crow Bookstore & Coffee House, a 25-plus-year fixture in San Diego’s Seaport Village, announced on Dec. 5 its planned closure by the end of that month. It was going the way of countless small independents before it, succumbing to the book sales behemoth, Amazon.com, and a national coffeehouse chain that had opened across the street two years before.
Two poems by two poets | Writers Resist
I left the truth on the sidewalk when I went into the tall office building. It was on wheels but heavy. I couldn’t take it to an upper floor even on the freight elevator. And it might not get past the metal detectors in the lobby. I hoped no one would take it. When I came out, people were walking around it, trying not to look.
Contents - Writers Resist
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 [...]
Murals deliver message of conservation - San Diego Uptown News - San Diego Uptown News
Uptown’s rich collection of public artworks, displayed on everything from utility boxes to multi-story structures, is about to become even richer. Between Sept. 8 and 12, stroll through your neighborhood, and you’re likely to see one of 22 internationally renowned artists transforming city walls into murals — murals with a message.
Art alive on 30th Street
The arts are inevitable victims of recession, and local arts communities have not been immune. But there’s still plenty to make them destinations. Arts festivals, public artwork, classes and galleries have all helped sustain the tone and tenor of San Diego neighborhoods. And economic recovery is evident in the survival of new arts businesses.
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