By Tawana Petty
Black Mothers
remember you are warriors
the root of African Nations
courageous
resilient
resolute
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Category: Art as Resistance
Peace
By Nick Peterson, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Peace had 80% of his spine severed.
Peace was choked to death on the side walk.
Peace was killed in her home while she was sleeping on the couch with her Nana.
Peace was beat down on the side of the highway.
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The Side of the Oppressor
From Baltimore:
Don’t Read It
From Louise Erdrich in Original Fire: Selected and New Poems
Recycle the mail, don’t read it, don’t read anything
except what destroys
the insulation between yourself and your experience
or what pulls down or what strikes at or what shatters
this ruse you call necessity.
Make Deadbeat Corporations Pay
From Melanie Cervantes, a native Californian creating visual art that is inspired by the people around her and her communities’ desire for radical change and social transformation.
An Easy Essay
By Peter Maurin
The world would be better off
if people tried
to become better,
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Power
From artist Seth Tobocman:
Siouxper Man & Siouxper Woman
From Steven Paul Judd, Kiowa and Choctaw artist: “I just want to make cool stuff for Indians to have, and that gets white people to think. I want to make the stuff I never got to see as a kid.”
Listen
By Talitha Fraser. Talitha is an urban contemplative theopoetics dabbler Kiwi living in the wilds of Footscrazy, Australia
I lost my voice again today.
Not from shouting too much.
No… more mute than that, more fut- (I’ll) Continue reading “Listen”
when giving a tour
By Sarah Amalia Holst
when giving a tour
of the farm
it is important
to let the basil speak
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