Queer Utopia It’s April. I watch you shoot arrowsfrom a smooth-carved cherrywood bow. The target is a rope gongwhose center keeps movingbecause of the breeze, and your arrowsbounce in the grass. We talkabout nothing, and […]
The Revolution (Relaunch)
A creative resurgence of the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Show Me What Democracy Looks Like: Raising Activist Kids
When Trump was elected, I worried how spending four years of their childhood living in a distorted, damaged reality would change my children. Then I remembered what my five-year-old daughter said just the day before: […]
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) […]
The Long Before #MeToo Project
The Long Before #MeToo project grew out of a student query in one of Dr. Pamela Stewart’s Fall 2016 women’s history courses on the Downtown Phoenix campus of Arizona State University. After reading Harriet Jacobs’ […]
Two Poems by Thea Swanson
Uncle No one wants to go there. We have to tread light, write the perversion with metaphors, pen how flowers were crushed by boots. We have to whisper our travesties to therapists, guard the ears […]
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 […]
Two Poems by Matthew E. Henry
an open letter to the white teacher who threw a Black boy out of her class for wearing too much lotion his skin was ashy. perhaps that’s a conceptyou’re unfamiliar with—like seasoned chickenand leaving vegetables […]
The Shot Heard Round the World: Zoombombing in the Era of MAGA/Covid
I would describe the bombers as “fraternity boys,” and I’m not saying this to perpetuate unsubstantiated stereotypes. I’ve been in higher education for just over 20 years, and I’ve seen some deplorable behaviors from fraternities […]
“AOC”: In Celebration of Women
“AOC”, Acrylic on canvas, 60×48 inchesby Lucretia Torva This portrait of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is on display at the Herberger Theater Art Gallery in Phoenix, AZ as part of an exhibition titled “In Celebration of Women: […]
