Calls for immigration reform is being voiced from across the spectrum. As does Jim Wallis, I hope this can be a true bipartisan solution that does not devolve into expressions of racism and hatred for the purpose of political posturing. Read more…
This book is next on my reading list. Here is just a portion of a review:
But what struck me the most, after reading Half the Sky, was my conviction that we women of the North need the women of the South just as much as they need us.
I have drawn enormous strength and inspiration from my work with women in the developing world, who have overcome unthinkable violence, humiliation, loss, and trauma. Their resilience haunts me and compels me to ask, what am I made of and what is asked of me? How would I respond if I lived through such brutality — repeated gang rape, the butchery of my parents before my eyes, or solitary confinement and torture because I refused to admit to a crime that I had not committed?
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I have been giving quite a bit of thought to the concept of the monkeysphere. If you haven’t heard of that term, let me explain it briefly. Read more…
The latest installment in the Non-Happy Endings project, the poem “mi ciudad pide clemencia”
In a fitting complement to the poem, I want to also share a recent article “Hopeless in Juarez” by Monica Ortiz Uribe covering the current situation in Juarez, Mexico.
h/t Courtney Perry
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Narratives that participate in and promote the efforts to realize justice in society, that is part of the guiding visions behind the Non-Happy Endings project. A similar vision was shared by Alan Bean of Friends of Justice. Read more…
