"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

Posts tagged ‘Writing as Resistance’

Daily Prompt Love for St. Paddy’s Day <3

17 March 2017

Make art about an immigrant story, about the realities, about how America was built on the very backs of the immigrants they revile. 

no_irish

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Getting Lost, and Finding Home

11 March 2017

Spent the day lost in a book. 

Make art about being lost in a good way.

lost good way

12 March 2017

Dreamt a future conversation with my grandson, where we talked about what it meant to create home wherever you are, that our true home is what we carry inside us, from our experiences, from the ancestors. He nodded solemnly, as if he already knew this. 

Make art about where home is, or how we create home. 

home heart ancestors

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Two Today <3 On Power, and Violence

8 March 2017

Make art about collective power. 

collective

9 March 2017

Make art about the violence of poverty. 

poverty of violence

Daily Prompt Love <3 In Hiding

7 March 2017

Make about what you’re hiding, about what they’re hiding. 

what you're hiding

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 We Are the Other

6 March 2017

Make art about the Other, about Otherness, about being the Other, about fearing the Other,  about discovering the Other.

other

all-others

Some MidWeek Call for Submissions Love <3 Loud Zoo: Standing Up to Injustice

Loud Zoo is Looking for Inspiration!

Deadline: December 31, 2016

 

We need it now more than ever. Please send art in any medium (video, audio, and multimedia welcome!), fiction of any genre, poetry, nonfiction, and beyond. Send pieces with people standing up for one another, standing up to injustices. We want people banding together in the face of mania and terror, holding strong and rising up against oppressors and regressions. From the hyper-real to the experimental and surreal, show us humanity. Help inspire people to take their own stands in their own communities and lives.

Website: http://www.bedlampublishing.com/loudzoo.html

Detailed guidelines:  www.bedlampublishing.com/submissions.html.

Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3

4 December 2016

Make art about nothing going as you planned.

plans

5 December 2016

Make art about driving in the dark.

driving-dark

6 December 2016

Make art about standing up for yourself.

standing-up-for-yourself

7 December 2016

Make art about corruption, about calling out corruption.

corruption

8 December 2016

Make art about needing silence, about the recharge, rebirth, renewal of strength to be found a a period of silence.

silence

9 December 2016

Make art about needing to scream, about the release, the energy, the power, to be found in a good primal scream.

the-scream

10 December 2016

Make art about hospitals, about being in the hospital.

Patient sitting on hospital bed waiting

11 December 2016

Make art about drawing strength from the energy and creativity and spontaneity of young people.

young-hero

12 December 2016

Make art about coming to terms with the inevitability of death.

death-tolle

 

 

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Still Waiting for an Answer

29 November 2016

I’ve had only two brief replies to all of the emails and letters I’ve sent to my senators, members of Congress, or the White House. The two I have received came from Senators Kaine and Warner. Neither response actually addressed what I had written them. Neither response actually said anything at all.  

Nonanswer (noun (plural nonanswers)

  1. The lack of an answer.
  2. An answer that is so vague or noncommittal as to be worthless. 

Make art about someone giving a Non-Answer. 

nonaswer

 

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