Friday News Round Up, October 9th

World on Fire: Colonial Suppression of Indigenous Knowledge Set America on Fire Why Pence and Harris Couldn’t Stop Talking About Fracking During the Vice Presidential Debate   Climate denial ads on Facebook seen by millions, report finds: The ads included...
Throwback Thursday: Whiteness Poem

Throwback Thursday: Whiteness Poem

Back in 2006, I wrote this poem. I dusted it off last recently for an engagement at Chandler Gilbert Community College in AZ, where I was doing a 40 minute spoken word set and I wanted to look at issues of race. Afterwards, attendees asked where they could find the...
The Orange Day by Neval Pektas

The Orange Day by Neval Pektas

Things were starting to feel normal – we were finally acclimated to our pandemic lives. We took walks on our suburban streets without the paranoia of others on our paths threatening our health, met friends in our backyards for socially distanced gatherings, set out...