Pol Pintó, from the series Teletrabajo 01.
Author Archives: Lex Gill
FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE
Jiab Prachakul (via booooooom).
FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR
From Brandon Taylor’s essay the tiny white people in our heads: When I tell friends about my life, even stories that are funny to me, I always try to preface it by saying that I grew up in a Southern Gothic novel. I think most of us who grew up with trauma or working classContinue reading “FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR”
FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE
Starlings I and II from Ploterre / Rebecca J Kaye (see description here).
FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO
By Evan M. Cohen (site) from the series Reflect.
FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE
“We Lived Happily during the War” by Ilya Kaminsky, via Poetry Unbound and the Poetry Foundation. And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protestedbut not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I wasin my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took a chairContinue reading “FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE”
FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY
Samuel Rodriguez, various collections.
FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN
From Shing Yin Khor’s comic I Do Not Want to Write Today.
FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN
Rune Fisker, Above.
FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN
From Keno Eval’s essay, Daunte Wright: A Billion Clusters of Rebellion and Starlight (via Ann Friedman). Perhaps we should learn a little about activists organizing to preserve starlight. The work of Cipriano Martin is described in The End Of Night: “He talks in a language that seems made for ‘declarations’ written ‘in defense.’” Martin helpedContinue reading “FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN”
FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN
By Anna May Henry (Instagram).
FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN
Helen Bur, via booooooom.
FIVE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN
Excerpt from Sanctuary by Donika Kelly. The ocean, I mean, not a woman, filledwith plastic lace, and closer to the vanishingpoint, something brown breaks the surface—human, maybe, a hand or foot or an islandof trash—but no, it’s just a garden of kelp.A wild life. This is a prayer like the seaurchin is a prayer, likeContinue reading “FIVE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN”
FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN
From the newly public Dorothea Lange Digital Archive from OMCA (the Public Defender series).
FIVE HUNDRED AND TWELVE
From Lewis Hyde’s A Primer for Forgetting. GRANDMA HYDE VERSUS FOUCAULT. “The analysis of descent permits the dissociation of the self,” rather than its unification, writes Michel Foucault. The truth about who you are lies not at the root of the tree but rather out at the tips of the branches, the thousand tips. ….Continue reading “FIVE HUNDRED AND TWELVE”
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