Who is Venus? My daughter: I struggled a bit with naming this work, but realized identity plays a part — my daughter’s new name. Her name was Carson a year ago, and of course we named her Cassandra. Cassandra was born just before Hurricane Katrina and I mulled over our…
I stared into the summer campfires, taking pictures with a filter on Instagram that divided the fire in symmetry. What was this burning heart? I realized it was like staring into our collective grief over the summer of 2020 when ordinary people took to the streets and became activists, holding signs and confronting murderers, defending against chemical weapons with umbrellas, bravely strategizing to outmaneuver police, or whole families marching in their communities for justice. And getting hurt.
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