TIDES WITHIN AND TIDES WITHOUT

Issue 5

WANARAGUA DANCE

Growing up in Trujillo, Honduras, the Wanaragua was my favorite Garifuna dance. My family would visit for the holidays, and watch as our town became crowded in anticipation of the celebration...

Issue 5 | Video

WHEN YOUR TRUTH LEADS THE WAY TARANA UNBOUND

Tarana Burke, founder of the Me Too movement, has written about her journey as an activist in the movement world. In her book Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the...

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WORDS FAIL ME

The words come in a torrent. For me, they always have. I’m still stung by the mocking laughter of my third-grade classmates the day my teacher said I had “verbal...

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VISHUDDHA

On the wings of a nectarean exhale that seems to expand into the infinite, we find ourselves in a smoky, purple realm suffused with a light which leaves no shadow,...

Issue 5

UBUNTU

You speak to me in my language.  I speak to you in yours. The towers of oppression tumble between us