I, the unnamed Native American narrator, am taking you on a journey. This journey is not the kind you take when you pay an ungodly amount to take ayahuasca in a rural village beset by criminal tree harvesting, nor is it a vision quest or a smoke lodge cleanse or an official visit from a real-life Cherokee princess who also happens to be your great great grandmother...
Inspired to illustrate all that the U.S. Postal Service makes possible, the People4USPS is a collective of people across the country amplifying stories and sharing creative interventions in solidarity with postal workers organizing against privatization. Scalawag editor Zaina Alsous sat down with Nicole Misha and Katie Moore, two collaborators on the project, to ask...
Editor’s note: This essay was originally published in WearYourVoice magazine at the height of the summer 2020 uprisings, when the murder of Atlanta’s Rayshard Brooks and the violent police response to protestors warranted a deeper understanding of the intimate connections between Atlanta and Palestine’s respective carceral apparatuses—both of which...
It’s a lot for me to be writing this right now. When I started, I felt secure that I would be able to do this, because I’d be able to access my medication, and I’d feel safe. I knew the passing of Kentucky’s extreme anti-trans bill, Senate Bill 150, was inevitable , but I had confidence that it would be overturned in the courts. In late June...