It’s common for writers to be asked about the books that influenced them, about the authors that inspired them. Usually the answer is none—the writers claim to be entirely original. When I get this question, my answer is All of them. Every book I like has added something to my ideas, my language. . . .
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Jasper Johns, Poster, (Flag) Moratorium, 1969USA lithograph on paper; 52.2 × 72.4 cm (20 9/16 × 28 1/2 in.)Gift of Various Donors; 1981-29-52Cooper Hewitt collection At Soldier Field, Home of the Chicago Bears If I had really good eyes, I might see the threads that join me to the crowd, or even . . .
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NOT HAPPENING, an image from TRUMP PAPERS, a show of hand-painted broadsides by San Francisco artist Ward Schumaker, 20 October – 6 November 2018 at Jack Fischer Gallery. VOTE! Ward Schumakerfine art portfolio: https://ward-schumaker.squarespace.comtumblr images: http://wardschumaker.tumblr.cominstagram: http://wardschumaker.tumblr.com Trump Papers20 October – 6 November 2018Jack Fischer GallerySan Franciscowww.jackfischergallery.com
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DUST BIN, an image from TRUMP PAPERS, a show of hand-painted broadsides by San Francisco artist Ward Schumaker, 20 October – 6 November 2018 at Jack Fischer Gallery. VOTE! Ward Schumakerfine art portfolio: https://ward-schumaker.squarespace.comtumblr images: http://wardschumaker.tumblr.cominstagram: http://wardschumaker.tumblr.com Trump Papers20 October – 6 November 2018Jack Fischer GallerySan Franciscowww.jackfischergallery.com
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BOW DOWN, an image from Trump Papers, a show of broadsides painted by San Francisco artist Ward Schumaker Ward Schumaker:fine art portfolio: https://ward-schumaker.squarespace.comtumblr images: http://wardschumaker.tumblr.cominstagram: https://www.instagram.com/schumakerward/ Trump Papers 20 October – 6 November 2018Jack Fischer GallerySan Francisco www.jackfischergallery.com
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Drawing by Marcela Castro, from the video Drawings by Themselves: Portraits of America Read Part Four here. One Last Story Here’s a bipartisan idea: Declare MS-13 an international terrorist organization. It is. They could. Problem: they’d have to believe the women…and give them asylum. Maybe even stop punishing them in the iceboxes and the . . .
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Welcome sign in Dilley, Texas (wikimedia commons) Read Part Three here. Individual Stories As I reflect on the week in Dilley, the ongoing work I do here in the Bay Area, I wonder: Do individual stories matter anymore, outside the hearing room, that is, the courthouse, and only insofar as the boxes . . .
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Read Part Two here. Twisted Minds Before traveling to Dilley, I could not help but think of Oświęcim, the town that hosted the camp we know of as Auschwitz. I thought of the scene in Shoah when Lanzmann interviews a group of local residents about what they knew about the camp, about their neighbors . . .
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Photo from the Cara Pro Bono Project Read Part One here. Credible Fear In order for an American woman and her children imprisoned at the South Texas Residential Center—run by the private, for-profit, publicly traded CoreCivic Company (previously named Corrections Corporation of America, and whose motto is “Better the Public Good”)—to be released, . . .
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Photo from CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project Kidnapped Kids Since the 2016 election, several of my local translator colleagues and I have been volunteering with Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland, California, as legal interpreters. I have worked with asylum seekers to help them fill out forms (asylum application, work authorization, . . .
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