Seeking writer-storytellers for “Public Works of Grief: Unsettling Loss, Reinhabiting Humanity” anthology
Note: Below you’ll find the overarching frame for an anthology I’m pulling together, Public Works of Grief: Unsettling Loss, Reinhabiting Humanity. In general, I’m curating the collection, directly contacting people … Continue reading
The Giants Won and Capitalism Is the Loss
January 28, 2016: Two years later almost to the day, I’m highlighting piece this in honor of and admiration for those rebels in the Bay Area who are about to … Continue reading
Crossing Over
There is a bridge between life and death. It’s called breath. Thin, weak, undirectional. Only visible for the minutes or seconds during which what’s left of faint air in lungs … Continue reading
Self
If you know me, you know I don’t like to be in photos. It’s the residue of years of arguments when my dad tried to take “act natural” photos that … Continue reading
In a New Old Year of War: Love
On turning the pages of another calendar year, especially in an epoch marked by such a sense of “no future” for so many, this I wish not only for myself … Continue reading
Because Capitalism
Recently, I randomly got into a 15-minute conversation with a talkative building maintenance guy in San Francisco’s Mission. He lives deep in the East Bay. “Who can be here when … Continue reading
Anarchism Doesn’t Fit in Promoting Their Ballot Boxes
A bunch of years back, the “Don’t Just (Not) Vote” anarchist initiative emerged from a panel that I pulled together at the former (wonderful) National Conference on Organized Resistance — … Continue reading
Unbearable Displacements
It was hard for me to comprehend, given the increasingly sanitized streets of most North American cities, the commonplace magnitude of street art in Athens during my recent trip to … Continue reading
