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Inauguration Celebration Oration
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This is the talk I delivered last night at Bowery Poetry in New York City, on the occasion of the inauguration of the first 22 members of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture’s National Cabinet.
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Alan Turing Helped Save the World and They Persecuted Him
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Cumberbatch’s commitment and passion shinned through on stage as he talked about transforming Turing’s story, his brilliance, and his humanity to the silver screen helping in his way to give him the long-overdue wide-scale recognition he rightly deserves.
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Project Shows How Twelve People Got Into Debt in San Francisco
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The Debt Project is a photographic and multimedia exploration into the role that debt plays in our personal identities and social structures.
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The Hunger Games as Metaphor For Youth Oppression and Resistance
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I believe one of the litmus tests by which a society can be judged is the ways it treats its young people, for this opens a window projecting how that society operates generally.
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Images of Empowerment: Artist Carol Rossetti Challenges Sexism and Affirms Women's Many Identities
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When Carol Rossetti began posting her illustrations from her “Women” series online earlier this year, she had no clue the images would generate a following of 184.7K Facebook users.
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Happy Blog-iversary (and A Half) to Me
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What has been consistent since my first blog (possibly my first breath) is the conviction that we can do better, that cultivating awareness and agency can effectuate the shift.
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Ferguson: Generations and Expectations
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This past weekend, activists streamed into Ferguson, Missouri, for Ferguson October, a “weekend of resistance” comprising actions and events “to build momentum for a nationwide movement against police violence.”
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Sukkot and the Transience of Life: A Meditation on Three Films
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Over the last few months I happen to have seen three films, each as different from the other as are the species that make up the lulav. Taken together, they add up to more than the sum of their parts.
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Finding Strength Through Spiritual Art
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Not all of it is pretty, it’s not all spiritual and wonderful. I’d say a lot of my artwork was a reflection of pain or anger in some way, now that I think about it. I mean, that’s why I was attracted to art therapy to begin with.
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And Who Shall I Say Is Calling?
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I felt like The Bone Clocks had something to say about so many of the central themes of the holidays: memory, death, rebirth, mortality, choice and free will, and second chances. These are Mitchell’s touchstones, the big questions he goes back to again and again in all of his novels, but The Bone Clocks brings them together both abstractly and concretely, as a largish subplot focuses on a group of immortal souls and their fight against those who would induce immortality by artificial and predatory means.