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Author: TRR
In Celebration (and Criticism) of Women’s Suffrage
Ratified on August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was the culmination of nearly a century of activism dedicated to procuring voting rights for women. And though we’re entering the centennial of that historic event this […]
AZResist Has Turned Arizona Purple
AZResist bills itself as “the only independent calendar covering social justice and progressive politics across Arizona.” Widely regarded as essential daily reading for the Resistance in Arizona, its co-founders Cyrus Tharpe and Julie Golding have […]
Reincarnation
“Her wounds came from the same source as her power” -Adrienne Rich 1.I dreamt my father dated a man. He pulleda 3 x 5 from his wallet. Blonde strandsspilled off the man’s shoulders in black […]
Hope is The Thing With Feathers: Tiffany White on Falconry and Social Change
When Tiffany White tells kids to reach for the skies, she means it. As a professional falconer — yes, that’s a thing — she and her raptors protect our food supply from pests while reducing […]
Dreaming Ourselves Free of the Trump Regime
I.I wash up on the shore. Trump has been chasing me all night, and I am bone tired. Surely he will not follow me on land, I think to myself, but he does. I flee […]
Excerpt from The Revolution, Vol. 2, No. 15, 1868
Introduction to the Excerpt The Reconstruction period marked a time of intense social change in the post-Civil War United States. One of the many changes was that (white) women began to advocate for the right […]
Punk Boy
I still see him in cigarette-burned photographs,his hair a messy tuft of Medusa locks,streaked red, black, and green,his coke-rimmed glasses duct-tapedafter an elbow to the face at a punk show.I still see him glossy-eyed,lingering outside […]
The Line
Hot. Too hot. I wiped the sweat from my face with a bandana already soaked with sweat. My brain didn’t want to function. I’d slept poorly. To be honest, since I’d been on the line […]
Squatting as Civil Disobedience
Despite there being an estimated one billion squatters worldwide (Neuwirth, 2004), Kesia Reeve has argued that “squatting is largely absent from policy and academic debate and is rarely conceptualised, as a problem, as a symptom, […]
