Month: February 2016
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this v day remember the red umbrella
I’m one voice from sex workers who were upset and surprised to see a red umbrella with the words “FLASH MOB” written under it, standing for the symbol of Atlanta’s V-Day Flash Mob: One Billion Rising to End Violence Against Women and Girls (http://www.onebillionrisingatlanta.net/). I am / we are frustrated not because we don’t want…
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why do you think i move
why do you think I move why do you think I move do you think I move out of fear do you think I move out of need do you think I move to be near you do you think I’m following you why do you think I move why do you think I move…
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Whiteness
We didn’t get to the migrant camps or group homes or detention centers this time at all. The plan was to go to the refugee center outside of Catania – CARA Mineo – but I got sick for several days and we stayed in Catania center; didn’t get to Palermo until the day of the…
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we have to confront this. the discomfort and inevitability of transracial art and experience
Fascinating. I woke up today to an image I found powerful and provocative—one of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei laying face down on a beach, evoking the tragic death of Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi (http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/feb/01/ai-weiwei-poses-as-drowned-syrian-infant-refugee-in-haunting-photo). And to my surprise, “No One” seems to mind. I must take pause. It was only a few weeks ago that…