Writers and artists from San Antonio to Quezon City respond to James Baldwin's historic words about 'every bombed village' being our own hometowns as we witness US-backed bombs fall on Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, Venezuela, and so many other places.
Filipina writer Avril Shakira Villar traces a line from James Baldwin's statement on the Vietnam War—'every bombed village is my hometown'—to the Tagalog word 'damay,' which 'gestures toward ... the willingness to be present in someone else's pain rather than at a comfortable remove from it.'
In April, one of the city’s three reservoirs received its first inflows in eight months. But narrowly avoiding an immediate disaster doesn’t mean that Corpus Christi has solved its water crisis.
From Israel’s genocide to Trump’s mass deportation regime, the impunity of the powerful has broken our hearts. But as fascism consolidates, we must keep it from also breaking our brains by refusing the easy seduction of conspiracy thinking suddenly at the heart of Galindo's campaign for Congress.
