by Rachelle Lee Smith When I began photographing and collecting stories for Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus, the youth…
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Review of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe
By JJ Amaworo Wilson Part memoir, part thesis, and part lyrical examination of what it means to be black in…
Rumi and Love and Tolerance
By Peter Marshall I said after breakfast in the ‘Rumi Hotel’ in Konya to a Sufi from Birmingham in England:…
Freedom of the Press and Charlie Hebdo
By Peter Marshall Recent events in Paris, in which so-called Islamic gunmen have shot down and killed cartoonists and journalists…
Peter Marshall’s Author Portfolio
The Anarchist Writings of William Godwin. London: Freedom Press, 1986; new edition 1996. Around Africa: From the Pillars of Hercules…
Trying to Make It Real
By Penny Mickelbury I’m a writer. A story teller. The people of my stories—the trajectories of their lives and the…
Pegi Deitz Shea: Author Portfolio
The Boy and the Spell. Pumpkin House Ltd., 2007. ISBN 0978-0-9646010-4-8. Adapted from a Ravel novel and Colette libretto, this…
The Six Dumbest Decisions of My Life
Reposted from Rag Blog I’m talking here about seriously dumb decisions, not those minor regrets like that time in 1970…
Dying to Know: Leary, Ram Dass, and Me
Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary is a unique documentary that serves as an important slice of countercultural…
Hebdo and the Limits of Satire: Realist Editor Paul Krassner Rethinks the Art of Irreverence on Culture Counter Magazine
A new satirical drawing by Paul Krassner and Mort Gerberg. By Jonah Raskin Culture Counter MagazineJanuary 17th, 2015 Was there…