Scarlet Rescue could be mistaken for the name of a no-kill shelter, but Lisa Barca’s mission is a bit more punk and a lot more entertaining. Lisa is a singer/songwriter and professor of literature who […]
Unintended Consequences of a Sexual Assault
I can no longer tolerate football. It’s like an allergy. I need to turn it off, leave the room immediately. This makes dating especially difficult in my stomping ground of New England #patsnation. Police stations […]
The Speculum: A Brief History of Medicine without Humanities
Consider the speculum. Roughly half of us are personally familiar with this device. At the same time, it’s likely that the other half do not even know of its existence. Even as a material object, […]
Historical Newspapers as Activist Resources
As you peruse your copy of the October 29, 1892 edition of The Washington Bee, a newspaper owned and operated by African Americans in the segregated world of the nation’s capital, you will notice an […]
This is how you grow in America
You are six years old when your mother asks you what you want to be when you grow up. You tell her you want to be a bus driver. You watch your mother’s face grow […]
Excerpt from The Revolution, Feb 6, 1868: On the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Wendell Phillips, as quoted by The Revolution, boldly called for a president who would pledge “not [merely] his words,” but his “life” to the betterment of Black lives. Phillips is, of course, referring to Andrew […]
No poem about Malawi
I have not written a single poem about Malawi.It’s been more than a yearsince I journeyed thereon a missionto help girls stay in school. It makes no sense. The whole country is a sonnetof wandering […]
Engage! Educate! Empower! Planting the Seeds for Revising History
We’re creating intergenerational and intersectional safe spaces where individuals, driven by justice and a deep love for themselves and their communities, could use archival knowledge to preserve their history and dismantle the power structure that […]
Writers For Migrant Justice (WFMJ): The Power of Poetry as Resistance
It started as a tweet by poet and activist Christopher Soto. Soto, along with Javier Zamora, Jan-Henry Gray, and Anni Liu, were organizing a reading in New York, and he was calling for poets and […]
