The Movement That Never Was
Is a movement defined by what it responds to, or how it responds?
Flashback: On Racism
A year ago this month, America was in utter turmoil.
Mauve Quarterly: Volume 2, Issue 1
March 2021: The year is here! How’s America doing? Read how it’s going so far. Plus, the Best of Winter. And what are we looking forward to for the Spring? Maude reports.
Going Ever Forward
Magic. If we have any hesitancy, or doubt, lose confidence in how to press on, if we need just a breath of hope or encouragement to keep going, we can come back here, to this moment, and treasure it. The first Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, and “The Hill We Climb”
Say Her Name
What started as a hashtag in support of Black lives is now being used to martyr White ones. A look at the usage of a catch phrase in context.
Three Days in America
In a long-term memory that’s both extensive and detailed, I have just a palmful of “JFK moments”–the ones in which you remember exactly what you were doing and how everything felt at an historic moment, so well you can instantly, mentally put yourself right back in it.
Mauve Quarterly: Volume One!
December 2020: A Year in . . . what was that exactly? How’s America doing? Read how The Mauve Report got started, and how it really got going. Plus, the Best of Autumn. And what are we looking forward to for Winter? Maude reports.
Exhibit Q
America reckons with the most powerful conspiracy theory it’s ever seen. But it’s all been seen before.
Thirteenth of March — Part Three
Louisville and America wait for a fresh, young Attorney General to deliver justice for Breonna Taylor.
Thirteenth of March — Part Two
“A shock to the conscience . . .” Three Louisville narcotics officers go on the raid they will never forget.