In Germany
love
decorates windows
with ribbons and branches
Town squares resurrect Spring
with Maypoles:
A fertility rite
older than written words. [Read more…]
In Germany
love
decorates windows
with ribbons and branches
Town squares resurrect Spring
with Maypoles:
A fertility rite
older than written words. [Read more…]
by At Large
By Nassim Moallem
Midge Costanza wanted her life story to inspire women to become engaged with the political process—but struggled with how to do so when her own political career was full of frustrating barriers and disappointments. San Diego State University Women’s Studies professor Doreen Mattingly outlines this dilemma in her introduction before presenting us with ten chapters that do just what Midge wanted.
A Feminist in the White House is a biography that shows us a woman who tried her best to make change she believed in. She was a woman who succeeded by winning a seat on City Council, hosting the first group of openly gay and lesbian leaders at the White House, having diverse and progressive women commission International Women’s Year, becoming the first female assistant to the president. [Read more…]
I am vanishing with Lake Hodges
Five years of drought and fire
melts water into clouds
grinds dirt into dust
blows tracks from trails [Read more…]
Fatigue
tackles the fittest flowers
Blossoms
turn inward
Petals fold
compress
color
into perfume [Read more…]
by At Large
By South OB Girl / OB Rag
While thousands of people were attending Comic-Con last week, Marvel Comics announced the release of a new comic book series on Friday July 22. The superheroes will be women. And the series is being written by women. George Gene Gustines, writing in The New York Times July 23rd issue, did an interesting review of the series, entitled, “Marvel Shines a Spotlight on Women.”
Wakanda is a fictional African country, and the world of the Marvel series, Black Panther. World of Wakanda will be a companion series. And will premiere in November.
The current Black Panther series is written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, author and a national correspondent for The Atlantic. The new comic will be written by two women, who are writing comics for the first time: the feminist writer Roxane Gay and the poet Yona Harvey. [Read more…]
Remind me
it’s a larger room
than the beam of light
exposes
Remind me
who is behind the lamp
what interest they gain
when I forget to look [Read more…]
Angry white men
make my pale skin crawl
taking ugly mug shots
under shrouds
inciting walls
burning their black savior’s cross [Read more…]
Goodbye Great Britain
you unchained the bulldog on yourself
never before in the history of Empires
has so much been owed to so few
Goodbye Great Britain
“Bottoms up,” to glories past:
armadas sunk
invasions thwarted [Read more…]
An empty bench
listening waves
meditating trees
contemplating river
An invitation
to pause
streaming video [Read more…]
by At Large
By Sharon Kha
“It’s not that we don’t want Mexicans to come to America,” the woman in the coffee shop said. “It’s just that we want them to do it the right way.”
The right way? And what would that be? Should we advise them to do exactly as we did?
When we were the ones on the other side of the fence wanting to settle in this new country, we cheated the people who were living there at the time — the Indians. We herded them into reservations and broke every treaty we made with them. When all else failed, we gave them disease-infected blankets that killed them off.
[Read more…]
by Bob Dorn
Dump Trump?
Trump dumps.
49 Dead, and one dead Hater,
50 Dead’s a better headline.
ConVisAdium a skyward island [Read more…]
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