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 […]
WFMJ: Phoenix
Dear old world, ~after L.M. Montgomery dear brave, fluttering, flowing old world, dear hungering world, cracked and blistered world, dear world embarrassed at yourself, at what you are capable of, bursting open in spring with […]
WFMJ: Salt Lake City
It was truly was a privilege to organize the Salt Lake City reading with Paula Mendoza, JP Grasser, and Willy Palomo. They are fierce advocates for our community and the power writers have in bringing […]
WFMJ: San Antonio
Poet Faylita Hicks reached out from San Marcos, TX about Writers for Migrant Justice and partnered up with Write Art Out Inc. and Manos Amigas, a San Marcos based nonprofit dedicated to helping migrants navigate […]
WFMJ: San Diego
Call Kindness an Anti-currency Call kindness sweat or carbon dioxide expelled. The essence of exchange between organisms. A natural resource that can’t be stockpiled or charged interest. Call it a setting free, not a paying. […]
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 […]
Letter from Cibola Prison
Salvadoran asylum seeker, Alejandra Barrera, a transgender woman who has been locked up in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) jail in New Mexico for 19 months, recently filed a petition for a Writ […]
Janitor
It was my second day on the job at Walmart corporate, by far the most prestigious position this brown girl had ever been in, and the pressure of the production floor, of the perfectly polished […]
WANTED: Women’s history aficionados to transcribe history for posterity
“By the People,” the Library of Congress’s crowdsourcing site, seeks those willing to transcribe handwritten historical documents so that they can become accessible to all. No experience necessary! LOC has a particular need for those […]
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 […]
