The Data Waves are an all-POC band from Illinois, based in Chicago. This past Winter, they released their debut album, ‘Revolution’, featuring seven original songs from the group. The album’s goal is to provide a representative soundtrack for the necessary ongoing political and cultural Revolution that we are in the midst of. Each track was…
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I was asked to write this blog in response to the current events in summer of 2020. I wrote it to a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist (BCST) audience. Let the unfamiliar terms wash over you as you read. These days, we often skim articles, but I ask that you read this article fully. PART 1: A…
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Ode To Sham I cried for three months straight. I was wet and boredWith summer’s ubiquitous ghostHaunting me at every dikeniAnd every butcher shop. Talkalakh — Homs — Damascus — Latakia.I zigzagged from East to West, North to South,But the heat of summer hitchhiked to each city! I remember a young me,Ironed out on streets…
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We knowthat a man is not a thing and is notto be placed at the mercy of things. We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists. We know that a baby does not come into the world merely to be the instrument of someone else’s profit. We know…
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(Illustration by @iggdeh) While Miguel Hastorga speaks, he constantly has to clear his throat, trying to suppress the fits of coughing that still linger from the virus. His sentences are slow and thoughtful. Before the positive test results, every member of the family had tried their best to be cautious and clean. Then his wife…
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Interviewed by Citrine Ghraowi, Photographed by Joana Meurkens Dania Darwish is a 28 year old Arab American currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. I’ve known Dania Darwish for a little over two years now. We have a lot in common, we both worked together at a non-profit centered around helping immigrants and refugees acclimate to…
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Have you wondered: Why are people calling to “Defund the police? Isn’t that going too far? Why do protests have to be disruptive? How should we respond to riots? This is the third installment, discussing “how do we respond to riots?” James: The Black Lives Matter movement is and always has been a decentralized movement…
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Truth and Time: The Paintings of Ulrick Jean-Pierre Introduction There is an historical argument to be made that modern politics began with the French Revolution. There is little debate amongst historians that the French Revolution is the most historically consequential revolution in human history. The struggle to abolish the Ancien Régime was the first time…
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[Illustration by Daniel IG- @iggdeh] As a native New Yorker, I didn’t know much about D.C and its rich cultural history when I arrived here in 2013 to attend the George Washington University. I joined other GWU freshmen as we explored the monuments, the Smithsonian museums, Embassy Row on Halloween night. We walked on Saturday…
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[Image source: https://www.them.us/story/themstory-ancient-egypt%5D During his visit to Africa in the summer of 2016, the U.S president, Barack Obama, addressed legal discrimination against LGBT individuals. Meeting the Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, Obama said: “When you start treating people differently not because of any harm they are doing to anybody, but because they are different, that’s the…
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