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Lit & Art

Undocumented Writers Feature. Guest Edited by Christopher Soto at the Southern Humanities Review.

DACA Rescinded & Poets Respond at the Poetry Foundation   

#HeretoStay: 14 Things to Read as You Stand By Undocumented Immigrants from the Asian American Writers Workshop

Masha Gessen’s “Immigrants Shouldn’t Have to Be ‘Talented’ to Be Welcome” in the NYT

More great graphics, like the one above, from justseeds.org.

Cristina Henríquez‘s “Everything is Far from Here” in the New Yorker.

Resources for students:

#heretostay

Scholarship List for Undocumented Students

Here’s a few resources for professors; add more in the comments!

Supporting Trans & Nonbinary Students: Here’s a guide designed for Mount Holyoke professors, but hopefully useful for teachers in general.

“Every Book You Teach Is a Political Choice. Make It a Step Towards Social Justice.” from http://educationpost.org

Feminist Resources for #TheResistance from SIGNS. Free downloads until 8/31/2017!

Jennifer Gonzalez’s “How We Pronounce Student Names, and Why it Matters” from Cult of Pedagogy

Accomplice Signs for Office Doors - useful for all! h/t Mimi Thi Nguyen

Accessible Syllabus - from Tulane

Open Dyslexic Font - created by Abelardo Gonzalez, with a Creative Commons license--free to use as long as you give credit!

The HASTAC Pedagogy Project - organized by Fiona Barnett et al, as part of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), an open-access Digital Humanities pedagogy project

Jennifer Gonzalez’s Big List of Class Discussion Strategies from Cult of Pedagogy

ETA: Oh! And here’s one for students (also worth reading for profs):

If you’re in Western Mass, come out to these readings!

The Juniper Summer Writing Institute Reading Series, June 18–24, 2017

The Juniper Summer Writing Institute hosts readings of prose and poetry at the University of Massachusetts Sunday, June 18 to Saturday, June 24. Readings are open to the public and begin at 7:30 pm in the Integrated Sciences Building—Auditorium 135.

June 18: Emily Pettit and Joy Williams EMILY PETTIT is a poet, artist, editor and teacher, and the author of Goat in the Snow. She has taught and lectured at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, the University of Massachusetts, Elms College, and Smith College. Emily is an editor for Factory Hollow Press and jubilat. JOY WILLIAMS is the author of four collections of stories and four novels, including The Quick and the Dead, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and a book of essays, Ill Nature, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

June 19: Dara Wier and Tiphanie Yanique DARA WIER is the author of twelve books of poems, including You Good Thing, Selected Poems, Remnants of Hannah, Reverse Rapture, and Hat on a Pond. TIPHANIE YANIQUE’s debut novel, Land of Love and Drowning, won the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction and was listed by NPR as one of the Best Books of 2014.

June 20: Arda Collins and Nathan Hill ARDA COLLINS is the author of a collection of poems, It Is Daylight, which was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. NATHAN HILL’S debut novel The Nix was a New York Times bestseller and named as one of the year's best books by Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Powell’s, IndieNext, Entertainment Weekly, and many others.

June 21: Amy Leach, Lydia Millet and Arisa White AMY LEACH is the author of Things That Are, published by Milkweed Editions, and has been honored with the Whiting Writers' Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. LYDIA MILLET is the author of 11 works of literary fiction, most recently Sweet Lamb of Heaven. She has been a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle and Los Angeles Times book awards, as well as the Pulitzer Prize. ARISA WHITE is a Cave Canem fellow and author of Hurrah's Nest, which won the 2012 San Francisco Book Festival Award for poetry. Her newest collection is You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened.

June 22: Timothy Donnelly and Rachel B. Glaser TIMOTHY DONNELLY is the author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit and The Cloud Corporation, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize. RACHEL B. GLASER is the author of the story collection Pee On Water, the poetry books MOODS and Hairdo, and the novel Paulina & Fran. She was included this spring in Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists.

June 23: Sam Michel and Camille Rankine SAM MICHEL is the author of the short story collection Under the Light, the novels Big Dogs and Flyboys and Strange Cowboy: Lincoln Dahl Turns Five, and the forthcoming novel The Old Colonialists. CAMILLE RANKINE is the author of the poetry collection Incorrect Merciful Impulses and the chapbook Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected for the Poetry Society of America's New York Chapbook Fellowship.

Some great options, for those already thinking about summer classes. What’s that like, I wonder.

ONLINE SUMMER COURSES THROUGH MOUNT HOLYOKE WITH LEORA FRIDMAN Leora is a fantastic poet and a good friend of mine; I highly recommend these courses (which count for MHC credit, so tell your friends). Blank Slate to Blank Page: A Workshop in Generative Writing Introduction to Creative Writing

FREE (!) ONLINE WRITING WORKSHOPS THIS SUMMER THROUGH IWW Check out these free MOOCs: Power of the Pen: Identities and Social Issues in Fiction and Nonfiction Power of the Pen: Identities and Social Issues in Poetry and Plays

from the DESIGN ACTION COLLECTIVE:

And Again, Today

Meg Day

My march begins in the morning.

I tighten my fade & my tie & I wait

until I'm fifty feet past the frat

to put in my hearing aids. My neighbor

starts marching before me -- her hands

buried in the bundle of her youngest--

& waves from the window to Paula

who never waves back as she rolls

off the bus on her march toward home

after a graveyard at Lyndon's so crowded

with whistles & unrelenting hands

she feels she's become a one-woman parade.

Every microaggression, another mile; every

holey paycheck, sexist slight, lousy curb cut,

pink tax, or worker's fight. Are you prude,

bitch, dyke, uptight with miles of boys

will be boys to go before you sleep?

Who's got keys between their knuckles

every night? Who puts their march to bed

only to find it turns back on the light?

I, too, was probably meant for gentler

things than hate: I've been searching

for a long time to find another way

of being a girl that isn't manmade.

If you've been waiting for an invitation

it's arrived. O, second chances--

second shifts, a second fist to the face

of the sky & look: we're a movement

in a clock, pushing our own weight

against another's in the hopes of turning

things around. Pound the pavement

if your privilege is a body that can

(but god how knowing the taste

of pavement can keep you from it).

March on bended knee or with bowed

head, march with wallet open or from

your own small bed. Put your hound dog

howl to the phones, put your queer

shoulder to the wheel -- re-sound

your own resistance & make it run

aground on the front lawn of any House

that won't help you get free. March

like your sisters are dying. March like

your planet is through. March like your own

life depends on it & march knowing

that marching can't save you. March

so they know we'll still get up

Art Tips for Activists!

PROTEST GRAPHIC BANK (via Mimi Thi Nguyen)

MARCH SIGNS BY DOME: http://march.domecollective.com/

SIMPLE GRAPHIC MARCH SIGNS: https://www.dropbox.com/…/moo5gm…/AAAeJIp78aweyDpTurFKec32a…

ANDREA AIDEKMAN'S MARCH SIGNS: http://www.andreaaidekman.com/march-posters/

JUST SEEDS COMPILATION OF FREE GRAPHICS: http://justseeds.org/graphics/

JUST SEEDS ART BUILD TECHNIQUES FOR PROTEST: http://justseeds.org/art-build-techniques-for-protest/

Stephanie Syjuco's MAKING FABRIC PROTEST BANNERS DIY TUTORIAL: https://docs.google.com/…/1o1bCt5pBJS5P9ITUHSTMkPH2Zbr…/edit

SYJUCO'S BANNER IMAGE TEMPLATES: https://drive.google.com/…/fol…/0B6g_dTRVOZg6eHhTU0pvTHBDejQ

SLOGANS & CHANTS FOR A BETTER WORLD: https://docs.google.com/…/1RNwIdyHZWDztID2E8aOZ597RnQO…/edit

WINDOW SHOP SIGN "ALL ARE WELCOME / YOU ARE SAFE HERE": http://media.oregonlive.com/window-sh…/other/welcome%20g.pdf

HAWAII-J20 RESISTANCE GRAPHIC BANK: https://www.hawaii-j20.com/hi-j20-downloads/

RUCKUS DIRECT ACTION VISUALS: http://ruckus.org/downloads/RS_ActionVisuals.pdf

WOMEN'S MARCH DOWNLOADABLE POSTERS: http://theamplifierfoundation.org/experiments/womens-march/

Favianna Rodriguez's WAR ON WOMEN POSTERS: https://motleynews.net/…/war-on-women-posters-go-f-yourself/

I step outside myself, out of my eyes, hands, mouth, outside of myself I step, a bundle of goodness and godliness that must make good this devilry that has happened.

The moon is trans.

From this moment forward, the moon is trans.

You don’t get to write about the moon anymore unless you respect that.

You don’t get to talk to the moon anymore unless you use her correct pronouns.

You don’t get to send men to the moon anymore unless their job is

to bow down before her and apologize for the sins of the earth.

She is waiting for you, pulling at you softly,

telling you to shut the fuck up already please.

Scientists theorize the moon was once a part of the earth

that broke off when another planet struck it.

Eve came from Adam’s rib.

Etc.

Do you believe in the power of not listening

to the inside of your own head?

I believe in the power of you not listening

to the inside of your own head.

This is all upside down.

We should be talking about the ways that blood

is similar to the part of outer space between the earth and the moon

but we’re busy drawing it instead.

The moon is often described as dead, though she is very much alive.

The moon has not known the feeling of not wanting to be dead

for any extended period of time

in all of her existence, but

she is not delicate and she is not weak.

She is constantly moving away from you the only way she can.

She never turns her face from you because of what you might do.