Cuatro Cuerpos: Cádiz, Spain

Aging on the Run, Israel/Palestine, long term travel, Social Movements, Spain and Portugal

  Cuartro Cuerpos, Four Bodies.  “Check in with your bodies: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual,” the online yoga instructor said. Pain radiated down my legs. Sciatica. My mental body divided our journey into five parts, checking bus routes...

What kind of Foreign Policy Do We Want? A Feminist Proposal

Social Movements, war and peace

    February 28 2026 At this moment, when the United States is bombing Iran, and the Epstein files reveal a global network of powerful men raping children and the earth for profit, it is a good time for us to consider what an internationalist, feminist,...

My International Board of Peace

Israel/Palestine, Social Movements, war and peace

January 2026 When world leaders signed off on Donald Trump’s International Board of Peace to oversee Gaza, dystopian fiction writers despaired. Who could write anything worse?  The only place to go at a moment when reality bests horror is to our imaginations....

Educator Rooted in Love and Solidarity

Minneapolis Interview Project, Social Movements

Rachel Schmitt...

Calling up the Nineteenth Century to Understand our Own Times.  Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth, Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered and Tony Horowitz’s Spying on the South

Latin America, Public History, Social Movements, Sustainable Economies

Annette Gordon-Reed, and Barbara Kingsolver are writers grounded in history, science, and Tony Horowitz was a writer steeped in evidence, yet reading On Juneteenth, Unsheltered, and Spying on the South together, felt like a mystical retreat with three mediums,...

Literary Pairing #2: We are Meant to Rise & The Sentence

Blog, Social Movements

Literary Pairing #2: We are Meant to Rise & The Sentence The Twin Cities are rising. Teachers in Minneapolis and St. Paul are wearing each other’s colors in solidarity as they prepare for a two-city strike, demanding raises for their lowest tier educational...