“I can’t accept the death of my imagination on a daily basis,” Caroline Woolard told us when we visited her at her studio in Lower Manhattan, “I’d rather have less money and work for something that I believe in.” Caroline is an artist that co-creates projects and...
Danelly Estupiñan, a powerful Afro-Colombian human rights activist and personal friend of mine, is now facing a mortal threat from the fanatical criminals aligned with powerful economic interests who are committed to keeping Black people subjugated in the port city of...
Latin America and the Caribbean XIII Feminist Encounter for Latin America, Lima, Peru, 2014 We as feminists affirm that our bodies are produced and transformed by the social relations in which we are immersed. Thus, in capitalist-neoliberal, colonial, patriarchal,...
Living in semi-rural Maryland, I joined the book club at my local library to connect with avid readers. Reading some of the books this summer & fall made me understand the role of whiteness in contemporary fiction. These are novels that have nothing to do with...
“How could one hope that a council of war would demolish what a council of war had done?” – Émile Zola, from J’accuse! – his open letter to Felix Faure, the President of France, 1898. A lot of people might agree that the United Nations as a concept is a...
