A Dawn with You
By Shalini Yadav — A striking crack of dawn at the parapet, removing the murk within one more day, neat and beautiful,
brightening further
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THEMES by PROMPT
We publish writing using a series of prompts as an entry point for exploring emotions, personal histories, shared truths, joy, grief, shame, and those themes that matter most to us in our hearts.
Explore the themes by prompt below:
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- Aug 7
Privilege
By Riyam Kafri AbuLaban — It is easy for privilege to declare, from its soapbox, that which is ethical, and that which is acceptable. But
- Jun 19
Summer of (20)69
By Ian Willey — Imagine how that scene would have played out if Adams and his ne'er-do-well friends were Latino, Middle Eastern, or Black.
- May 2
The Right Side of White
By T. A. Johnson — Understanding the complexity of being Black in America is hard for most White People to see, but it’s hard for anyone to
- Apr 10
5 Tankas
By Sergio Inestrosa — Born among the poor. God himself. Serene night ... To guide shepherds, the brightness of a star. Very early in the
- Mar 28
Roles We Play
By Jeremiah K Durick — Little more than a toddler he wanted to do the work we did – dishes, vacuuming, raking and
anything else we were
- Mar 18
BABY BOOMERANG
By Mark Blickley — My Baby Boomer generation has been weaponized into a baby boomerang that cuts down all who are different then we are.
- Feb 5
Overlooked Privilege
By Nicole Rhodes — The day he forgets me, the day he talks to me like just another waitress, like just another friendly stranger, I don't
- Dec 22, 2021
When The Tables Turn
By Sydney Dabney — Imagine if you were in our shoes. Imagine if the roles reversed. Us, the oppressor. And you, the oppressed. The ones who
- Nov 7, 2021
Mirrors
By Pooja Sinha — When I look in the mirror, I see that young girl, acting in her favorite green dress in a theater production in School. She
- Sep 27, 2021
Come with me
By Raluca Buttner — Come step out onto the clouds with me. Why be so afraid to leave the world behind, with its roofs and screened windows?
- Jul 14, 2021
I Don't Have To Be Amanda Gorman
By Noelle Sterne — A series of (female) nemeses, killer weeds, plagues from college on, each marking my insecurity, guilt, deficiency,
- Jun 30, 2021
My White Privilege
By Robert Knox — My white privilege gets me around town, protects me in my careless teens. Imprinted clearly in the photo on my driver’s
- May 28, 2021
White Flowers
By Leonore Wilson — In the foothills of May, these wild ones, long lost lovers, racemes of floral buds, water-tight, grass like and a few
- May 1, 2021
Color Blind!
By Jyoti Nair — Especially on Holi, make me color-blind. Liberate me from color-cacophony and clangor. They have been bludgeoning my
- Feb 25, 2021
Movie Screen
By Sarah Bellum Mental — The kids ask me why is it, we always die first in the movies? I get to stay until the end
of the movie. The end
- Jan 10, 2021
The Bridge
By Maria Adeola Sheey-Adekale — You probably think that ‘white privilege’ doesn’t belong to me. How could it when my skin is brown? But I
- Nov 18, 2020
The Best Tool in my Recovery from COVID-19: Privilege
By Heidi Schauster — I’m a previously robustly healthy 48-year-old, and at Day 52 of COVID-19, I am still recovering from a virus that has
- Sep 10, 2020
Solidarity
By Corey Bush — My white privilege is the heritage of Irish immigrants and Anglo colonizers. It is the very land upon which I walk.
- Aug 29, 2020
Walking Our Way
By Teresa McLamb Blackmon — She slipped in the door and did her job quietly. If she felt she didn’t belong there, she was wrong.