Carlo Campbell Come closer You’ll live another day come closer Why would your mother pray? Come closer Togetherness is a vital component of our culture Together is survival Everyday that we’re alive is another chance to die There a death in solitude And together a homicide The other side is just some kumbaya shit […]
Category: covidXclimate
Curving
covid, air pollution, climate change and #flattenthecurve Nerea Calvillo
Jennifer Ladino In January of 2019, Greta Thunberg told leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: “I want you to panic…I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.” With the COVID-19 crisis, feelings of fear are intensifying for many people. Having a collective panic attack is understandable if unhelpful in […]
Eben Kirksey
Longing for the State in a Pandemic
Devin William Daniels The COVID-19 pandemic has been, in many ways, a disaster of the U.S. state. A government of such power—able to bail out banks, force pipelines through Indigenous land, kill individuals around the globe with the push of a button—has proven completely incapable of providing testing and medical supplies to its front-line workers. […]
la contraria / to be contrarian
Raquel Salas Rivera la contraria no tengo amistades cuya intromisión llegue a mi puerta.el candado tiene un candado de látex y ahora sospechodel dinero más que nunca pero con el miedo abultado. una exposición continua me da el récorque no quise de la pérdida.la luz mata, dicen, y el habla. al fin y al […]
Mask Off
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A brief chat
happening in an environmental humanities seminar at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, on April 8, 2020, Part I: Marcus Hall, University of Zurich “What’s this pandemic got to do with climate change?” Marcus: Could a warming climate create new conditions for disease vectors and disease transmission? Most certainly, ‘yes’. But an even bigger issue may […]
By Ralph Willis The president had arranged for a press conference. A few thousand supporters showed up. People figured it’d be more about the wall. He stood quiet at the podium long enough to make everyone else hush in anticipation. “People of America,” he began, “we’ve been developing an entirely new strategy…wait…I’m holding all questions […]
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