The most recent season of The Handmaid’s Tale—the astonishing Hulu series that began as an adaptation of the novel by Margaret Atwood—begins by gesturing to what nineteenth-century readers experienced as their own most thrilling, dystopian, […]
Unholy Triptych for the New Immigrant
Madres— women forced to spreadtheir legs, open their mouthsto coyotes in desertsinside shipping containershooked to Mack Trucks,husbands and childrentorn from them—your tired your poor Padres—men in safe housesalong the long routebraving bordersstarved and beatenbadgered and […]
tracks from there to here
Midnight, the train, the heard past, the rumbling stall of an apartment behind the jukebox, the cattle call of miners, pipefitters, boilermakers naming shots chased with budweisers. The dirty hands, dirty faces. The women beehived […]
from The Revolution Vol 1, Part 1, 1868
In 1840, Parker Pillsbury (1809-1898) lost his Congregational Church license to preach due to his uncompromising attacks on church leaders who would not resist slavery. He then lectured across the United States and visited England, […]
Civia Tamarkin on the ERA in AZ
Civia Tamarkin is the President of the National Council of Jewish Women Arizona and an organizer who has assisted the ERA Task Force in Arizona. A former CNN executive, she is also the director of […]
