14 July 2019
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ―
Make art about willful ignorance.
13 July 2019
Make art about what’s misunderstood, about when you misunderstood something, or about when you were misunderstood.
The Revolution (Relaunch) Seeks Socially Engaged Writing
The Revolution (Relaunch) is a revisionary, radical, and creative resurgence of the women’s rights newspaper founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1868-1872).
“We’re interested in flash with a socio-political bent—from work that engages with literature and film to current events and politics. We also publish memoir and poetry. If you’re inspired to produce evocative, first-person, social-justice oriented writing—sexual, racial, economic, border-related, or other—then we’d love the opportunity to read your work. All prose submissions should be under 750 words.”
Submit no more than one piece of prose and no more than three poems or three pieces of visual art to . therevolutionrelaunch.com
12 July 2019
Make art about extinction, about what’s going extinct.
Image by Felikss Veilands from Pixabay
11 July 2019
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ―
Make art about hunger.
Image by billy cedeno from Pixabay
10 July 2019
Make art about being in deep water, literally or metaphorically.
Image by engin akyurt from Pixabay
9 July 2019
Make art about what or who’s calling to you from down the hall.
8 July 2019
Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” -Psalm 82: 3-4
Make art about taking action to protect and defend the weak and oppressed.
7 July 2019
“My experience with life makes me afraid of the historian” the historian, if not a liar himself, is largely at the mercy of liars.”–Walt Whitman
Make art about the twisting of history.
6 July 2019
devotion (n.) 1200, devocioun, “profound religious emotion, awe, reverence,” from Old French devocion”devotion, piety” and directly from Latin devotionem (nominative devotio), noun of action from past-participle stem of devovere “dedicate by a vow, sacrifice oneself, promise solemnly,” from de “down, away” (see de-) + vovere “to vow” (see vow (n.)).
Make art about what you’re devoted to.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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