The Indypendent
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Prisons and the Pandemic: Enraging New Book Looks at How Incarcerated Americans Experienced COVID-19
Five people imprisoned in different parts of the country narrate what it was like to be trapped behind prison walls with no place to seek refuge during the deadly pandemic.
Book Review: Playing Sports on Stolen Land
For queer Aboriginal Australian soccer player Ellen van Neerven, sports is both a source of joy and a magnet for racism, sexism and homophobia.
Book Review: An Art School Homework Assignment Gone Terribly Wrong
Two students become lovers. One of them commits suicide the next day, and the other is left to deal with the cloud that hangs over their lives for many years afterward.
Book Review: How to be a Nonviolent Second-Wave Feminist
In 47 essays written from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, prominent Second Wave feminists question how nonviolence might be applied to effectively transform violent systems of aggression, from rape to war.
Book Review: For These Two Unlucky Lovers, The Journey Is The Path
The Other Side of Nothing is a beautifully presented examination of psychological pain.
Book Review: School Desegregation Setbacks and the Lessons Learned
Seventy years after the Supreme Court rejected school desegregation, exciting new ideas about how to overcome America’s racist legacy are percolating among educators, even as the promise of equality in public education remains unfulfilled.
Remembering Grandma: Art, Abuse and a Fraught Legacy
Touching the Art is part memoir, part social history, part political analysis. It’s also a highly personal and often painful account of abuse, neglect and denial.
A tale of how far we’ve come as a society and of what remains to be done to destigmatize, and ultimately normalize, hearing loss and other infirmities.
How to Save Higher Education from Itself
New book argues that U.S. universities need to abandon tenure, faculty governance and devotion to US News & World Report College rankings.