(Photo: Beanie in the Tunnel, June 2, 2020. Anne Ehrhart.) November 6th, 2020 Anne and I have been holding our breathfor three days, trying not to think,or feel, or contemplate the implicationsof another four years of madnessif our current president should win,astounded it should be so closewe still don’t know who won.What . . .
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“I don’t consider myself sensual,” Antonia said, pulling the sheet across her torso and stroking his hair. Miguel smiled without her noticing. He knew she was trying to draw out praise for her skin, her body, her lips. Antonia was provoking him. She knew she was irresistible. She knew that any movement . . .
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(Photo: Persephone reunited with her mother Demeter) Read Part 9 here “And so return to work.” Just as a present-day trip to Birmingham sends MacNeice into memories of his earlier life in that city, section IX’s thoughts on teaching classics provoke a reverie in which MacNeice recalls “the beginnings of other terms,” a . . .
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In 2016, after a woman accused him of putting his hand up her skirt while on an airplane, Trump told supporters at a campaign event, “Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.” The crowd laughed. More than two dozen women have accused the president of sexual misconduct . . .
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In Edinburgh I could not understand what the cabdriver said as he drove me to the restaurant, and inside the only person who would speak to me was a Lithuanian with pink hair, who leaned above her wine and whispered, nothing is familiar.—from “Wood and Wire,” Volume 61, Issue 3 (Fall 2020) Tell . . .
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Hello, Michiganders. It’s been almost four years now since I last checked in, though I’ve often wondered how you’re doing. I do come back for visits, once in a blue moon, but that’s no excuse for not calling or writing. Given everything that’s happened this year, and with the election just days away, . . .
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I discuss here two examples of Asian American artists whose recent activities have helped to frame public notions of Asian American identity in relation to other US racial groups. As we continue to hear the stereotypical refrain about Asian Americans enjoying power and privilege in the US, due to our risk-averse, upwardly . . .
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Bridging Divides, Renewing Solidarities As we emerge from a summer rife with anti-Black racism and deadly violence against Black people, followed by police brutality against peaceful protestors, I reflect on the different histories of racism – anti-Black racism on the one hand, and, anti-Asian racism on the other – and their connections . . .
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Since the start of 2020, racist and xenophobic incidents against Asians and Asian Americans have spiked, with the website StopAAPIHate reporting over 2,600 incidents of harassment, bullying, verbal assault, and violence since mid March, with many, many more going unreported. Each of these incidents are painful but important to hear about. One recent example from . . .
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Lessons from the Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee What is a meaningful politics for Asian Pacific Americans (or APAs) at this historical conjuncture? Put another way, when APAs experience anti-Chinese racism under COVID, in a time of murderous racial violence by the police against Black people, what is to be done? For . . .
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