Bri Noonan noticed a gap in research, specifically on people who were queer, were making art, and were also chronically ill. As a person who lives in the intersection of all three, Bri (whose pronouns […]
Category: Interview
The Feminist Fandom of Trina Robbins
Trina Robbins is an icon. After all, she was the first woman to illustrate Wonder Woman, but like so many aspiring artists, she started her mega-career as a mere zinester. In the late 60s, Trina […]
Black Lives Matter: are you still watching?
Ken and I have been friends for two years. We usually meet up for a yoga class or cocktails where we dive into and complain about work in the service industry and our most recent […]
A Conversation with Frederick Douglass
As many Americans celebrate Independence Day, I’d like all of us to consider the Fourth of July speech, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” delivered by abolitionist Frederick Douglass in 1852. Two Phoenicians […]
Portraiture as Art and Activism
Gary Bowers is a Phoenix-based poet and portrait artist. His favorite style of poetry is acrostic, and he’s sketched as many locals as he has famous folks. When I decided to launch The Revolution (Relaunch) […]
In Celebration of Women: Paula Cullison and the Art of Activism
I first met Paula Cullison at a rally to protest the abortion bans threatening to sweep the nation. I was part of a small group of women standing up against the pro-life protestors who were […]
Memory, Land, and Love: An interview with poet and author Amber McCrary
Amber McCrary is writing what she yearned for when she was young in the small town of Flagstaff, Arizona. “I always felt kind of like an outcast and a weirdo growing up. I never really […]
An Interview with No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes
No More Deaths, or No Mas Muertes, is an organization based in Tucson and Phoenix that supports migrant lives by scheduling “drop-offs” of water, food items, and other essentials along known migrant trails across southern […]
The Liberating Work of Trans Queer Pueblo
Trans Queer Pueblo, formed in 2016 as a merger between Arcoiris Liberation Team and the Arizona Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project, is a grassroots group working for the liberation of trans/queer migrant communities in Phoenix, both […]
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 […]