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issue 4. table of contents

featuredStories

essays

By Thomas J. Sojka: The 2020s have arrived, bringing sensational headlines on the state of the global economy that anticipate “another Roaring Twenties” or condemn the comparison as “absurd.” 

In Pursuit of THE PURSUIT OF LOVE

By Thomas J. Sojka: The 2020s have arrived, bringing sensational headlines on the state of the global economy that anticipate “another Roaring Twenties” or condemn the comparison as “absurd.” 

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color photograph of installation by artist Savannah Wood featuring various framed images and flowers

Letting Your “DNA Show You the Way”: Selling the Politics of Genetics and the Business of Race

By Adrienne Sockwell: As a historian, and as a person interested in most narratives of the past, I realize the unique value of Ancestry.com as a research tool …

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Picture of a grocery aisle with empty shelves

The Soothing Aesthetics of the Supermarket

By Rebecca Lipperini: I love the supermarket — fiercely, obsessively, weirdly. I go to the supermarket when I feel overwhelmed. And it turns out I’m not alone.

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a photograph of a tree with a blue-grey filter and blurred background

Failure of Trees

By Penina Eilberg-Schwartz: It’s strange to have the idea on the boat where there are no books, no letters — only water and the different kinds of light in it.

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By Stefanie Doucette: Like most Tuesdays, we spend the night out at our favorite Divisadero Street dive bar, swapping dirty stories for fun over $3 sake bombs.

Some Sort of Hostage Situation

By Stefanie Doucette: Like most Tuesdays, we spend the night out at our favorite Divisadero Street dive bar, swapping dirty stories for fun over $3 sake bombs.

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A collaged image of an office space appears with various sections of found text. On the top left, a clipped fragment of text says, “Breaking through the glass ceiling” in red ink on white paper. A few lines below, in large white letters on a black background, a clipped fragment of text reads: “What ceiling?”. Below and to the left, the text reads: “Reinvent Ceiling Design,” and at the bottom in large capital letters: “Freedom.”

Who Is Zooming Who? Rituals of Shame in the White Academic Institution

By Chiseche Salome Mibenge: An elite white academic institution in California has convened a virtual workshop on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for a cohort of humanities faculty.

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Painting of a feminine figure standing frontally, within an oval frame with three black flowers at each corner, and in front of grey hills with three gold stars in the sky above their head. They wear a turquoise and black chevron-patterned dress and a neon pink bird mask that covers the top of their face and head, with four long feathers hanging down across their chest and back. Their head is in profile to the left and their hands are held at angles in front of their chest and stomach. They have short, patterned pink wings.

A Tzintzún (Hummingbird) Emerging

By Mario A. Gómez-Zamora: I don’t really know who chose who. / I just stopped holding my heart’s emotions and / then, when I was about to die, / you appeared!

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By Bre (Nyx) Byrd: We all begin, cradled in the water. The storm of our mother’s womb, we, torrential in our desire to be known and know the world, initially seek out of the water...

afloat

By Bre (Nyx) Byrd: We all begin, cradled in the water. The storm of our mother’s womb, we, torrential in our desire to be known and know the world, initially seek out of the water…

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watercolor on paper of the figure of a skeleton submerged in gnarled branches of an oak tree and surrounded by bright green leaves

The Princess Writes by Candlelight

By nanya jhingran: night falls on the lodge slowly / then all at once / in a gradual shock the crows / feathered loneliness

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featuredArtists

A digital illustration of a crystal cocoon hanging off a thin branch jutting out of the ground behind which blue rings of iridescence shine ou
Brittney Frantece — Digital Illustration

My Rebirth

a color photograph of a white room filled with white furniture drawn on with thin and thick lines of black ink
Hedwige Jacobs — Mixed Media

Drawings and Installation

San Francisco in Jell-O and Ground Waters
Liz Hickok — Mixed Media Prints

San Francisco in Jell-O and Ground Waters

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