by Aya de Leon | Mar 26, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays, Uncategorized
Content warning: sexual violence Sometimes–in a pandemic no less–you are faced with impossible choices. This one is about the 2020 election. I cannot stomach Joe Biden. I #BelieveWomen. I know Tr*mp is a disaster that must be stopped at all costs. ALL....
by Aya de Leon | Mar 26, 2020 | Personal Essays, Uncategorized
For a while, in my 20s, I lived with housemates, and we did puzzles. Big, thousand piece puzzles on our kitchen table in Dorchester, MA. I can’t recall any of the pictures, just that we’d leave them up for days or weeks. Sometimes we’d hang out and work on the...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Mar 22, 2020 | Personal Essays, Uncategorized
Toilet Paper: Out of Stock, 3/22/20 By Vijaya Nagarajan As most of us have been, I, too, was at a store a few days ago getting my essentials for a three week “shelter at home” six county-wide directive in the SF Bay Area, the first in the United States....
by Mary DeMocker | Mar 19, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Personal Essays
I hope today finds you well, your loved ones safe, and your community caring for every member. As we each hunker down with our “Corona Crew” – the small group of people we’re not distancing ourselves from — it seems like a good time to give everybody, including...
by Aya de Leon | Mar 17, 2020 | Personal Essays
Our road to the Green New Deal will not be easy. It will require creating deep coalitions between groups of people who have been set up to mistrust each other. Two of these important groups are Blacks and Jews. With Bernie Sanders as our last GND candidate standing,...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Mar 16, 2020 | Personal Essays
A deep sorrow filled my spirit when Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the Democratic primary. A feeling of almost beens, near haves, what ifs. A severe lack of imagination. I feel a wretchedness of whether it will ever be. A forbidding sense of improbability, an...
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