Category: Activism
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Alleen Maar Nette Mensen: The Netherlands and the continued dehumanization of black people – a Film Review by Q. Gario
Quinsy Gario is a film and television scholar, focusing on gender, race and culture. He’s also a poet, award winning theater-maker and the performance artist behind the Zwarte Piet Is Racism art project for which he was arrested in November 2011. You can find more of his work on www.nonemployees.com or look him up on…
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Voices to the Voiceless: Confronting Sex-Trafficking and Other Gender-based Issues Worldwide by M. Pitter
We are living in an age still plagued by slavery and direct violations on human rights, a modern age in which there are people brutalized out of whim or exploited as chattel for red light pleasures. Millions of young girls worldwide, born into destitution often find themselves as the products of the sex traffic industry…
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Good Looks, Romney by M. Pitter
My Fellow Americans, We ought to be grateful that some double agent of The People captured footage of (Willard) Mitt Romney at that clandestine swanky-danky millionaire dinner party. Think hypothetically, for a moment, of Mr. Romney in the presidency: Imagine how much more appalled most would be towards him and the government if he put…
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Issue 2: October 2012
PROMO: The second issue of In Parentheses Literary Magazine is coming October 1, 2012. Counting the days. Submissions click here.
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Autobio of Ben Franklin – Thematic Analysis by P Chatelain
Upon reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and further discussing it in class there were a few tidbits of information that truly resonated with me. It gave me some deeper insight as to why we write, why it’s important to write, and how printing begins to change the whole playing field for written word. Literacy is in…
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A Call to the Public
At about the midpoint between our very successful first issue and the highly anticipated October issue, we are looking to revamp the In Parentheses brand by opening a call to new contributors for the IP Blog. We see the blog as a very important connection to our public that runs alongside the print quarterly, and…
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Let America be Wrong – Poems by B Nardolilli
Ben Nardolilli lives in Virginia. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, The 22 Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, Pear Noir, and The Minetta Review. He has a chapbook: “Common Symptoms of an Enduring Chill Explained.” He blogs at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com. Let America Be Wrong Yes, I have a wide place In a land that’s mine,
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Reminder: Decolonize the Mind – a Public Service Announcement by Michael Pitter
We Need a Curriculum for an Intellectually Independent Society: The curriculum for a new intellectually independent age first and foremost needs to be decolonized. The last 520 years in European history was partly characterized by the colonization of lands, the subjugation of people and the manipulation of knowledge. European values have pervaded the independent…
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Issue 1: July 2012
The inaugural issue of In Parentheses Literary Magazine is now available.
