Tag: politics

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+ immigration, politics, incarceration, japanese incarceration, mass incarceration, ICE

Open Letter to My Representative on Proposed ICE Processing Facility

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Over the past few months, we have seen an increase in DHS seeking to buy warehouses to store individuals, creating concentration camps reminiscent of Japanese internment and other such atrocities. They have been seeking to buy these warehouses all across the nation, from New Jersey to Kansas and from Texas to Georgia. Community pushback has deterred a lot of these purchases, but others, even amidst … Read More Open Letter to My Representative on Proposed ICE Processing Facility

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+ interview, podcast, politics, progressive, southern, Y'all Ain't Right

“What It Took for Me to Stop Hiding My Politics in the South”: An Interview with the Founder of Y’all Ain’t Right

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Over the past six months, my wife, Melissa, has been working on Y’all Ain’t Right, an umbrella site featuring our podcast, This Ain’t It, a blog, and products filled with Southern “sass, smarts, and social consciousness.” This project originated as her way to use her talents to voice her opposition to the atrocities we see enacted around us on a daily basis. It also arose … Read More “What It Took for Me to Stop Hiding My Politics in the South”: An Interview with the Founder of Y’all Ain’t Right

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+ cakewalk, comics, EC Comics, nate powell, Pedagogy, racism, the guilty!, writing

“Is it a racist story?”: Nate Powell’s “Cakewalk”

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When I teach first year composition, I usually frame the course around personal narratives, allowing students to write about themselves. I find that this helps them get comfortable with writing and allows them to express themselves through their essays. As such, I try to choose at least one text that contains personal stories. This semester, I decided to add Nate Powell’s You Don’t Say, a collection … Read More “Is it a racist story?”: Nate Powell’s “Cakewalk”

+ ICE, immigration, Rümeysa Öztürk, vanity fair

Who deserves to be heard?: Rümeysa Öztürk and the Power of Listening

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On March 25, six plainclothes DHS agents “arrested” Rümeysa Öztürk, a 30-year Tufts University PhD student in child psychology and development. Öztürk, a Turkish national, earned a master’s in developmental psychology from Columbia University where she attended on a Fulbright scholarship, and she continued her study at Tufts on a F-1 student visa. The agents grabbed Öztürk as she left her home to meet … Read More Who deserves to be heard?: Rümeysa Öztürk and the Power of Listening

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+ Noor Hindi, omar el akkad, Palestine, politics, Rasha Abdulhadi

We Must Speak Out Now, Not When It Becomes Acceptable

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A few weeks ago, I was on a flight back to Atlanta from a trip to Mexico. Right before we landed, a storm popped up over the Atlanta airport, causing us to go into a holding pattern, and then another holding pattern, and eventually, since the storm did not let up, to make a detour to Savannah, about an hour away by air. The … Read More We Must Speak Out Now, Not When It Becomes Acceptable

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