ART*Feature ART/FASHION RACE/POLITICS

The Children are all Ours: Mekia Machine’s Abstract Figurative Art

“ The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” –James Baldwin Mekia Machine is a fierce, inspiring, and visionary abstract figurative artist I met last month at the Blue Gallery in […]

RACE/POLITICS

Weaponizing Antisemitism

  Oh, to be ‘anti-Jew’,      who of you  even operates like that? Trauma, historically induced paranoia, We feel for you, and dread repeats of the Holocaust…       We do, so much we now erect canopies of Protest for Palestine,            In tents…    Encampments          all around,      equipped with […]

RACE/POLITICS

A PLEA to the occupier

“Poetry and beauty are always making peace.  When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.”   — Mahmoud Darwish   Palestine Resistance has exposed Colonialism. Refusing to leave, and willing to die, we long proper burials in our own earth that you brutally deny…   Why strip us of this right to sanctify […]

LITERATURE/TRAVEL RACE/POLITICS

VAMIRIC ENMITY: War Poem

Hearts drained of red blood, Sheaths of warmth, love, and sanctity  torn viciously like the formal contracts        binding humanity.   Innocence bewails,  as mothers’ babies are stolen away, like the basic right to hydrate,       eat and dignity.   Crimson that ribboned Israel’s pleasant Saturday,  Anchors Palestinians every day,       in captivity   being […]

LITERATURE/TRAVEL RACE/POLITICS

Palestine Writes Literature Festival: a MORAL IMAGINATION

The first of its kind in North America, the event featured writers, poets, artists, publishers, scholars and activists eager to discuss the inherent connection of art, literature and culture to political struggle and solidarity. Originally scheduled for March, the event that was cancelled due to pandemic welcomed over 3,000 active participants and viewers from 75 […]