The Movement That Never Was

Is a movement defined by what it responds to, or how it responds?

Mauve Quarterly: Volume 2, Issue 2

June 2021: The year since George Floyd. How’s America doing? Read how the pandemic and protests spawned a mission right here. Plus, the Best of Spring. And what are we looking forward to for Summer? Maude reports.

What’s Brought Us Here

COVID-19 on America’s shores was inevitable, literally here before we knew it. And almost as soon as it arrived, Asian-Americans from coast to coast began taking the heat. They still are.

Flashback: On Guns and Abortion

Last fall, I wrote on two topics that had been running a parallel discourse in my mind for a long while, and finally got my thoughts straight on their unexpected interrelatedness. Since then, it’s been my most read feature post, and it’s also been updated to include one woman’s special true story.

When the Blue Comes Off

Black Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, and All Lives Matter — three true statements nobody should need to say. But they’ve all been said, and for Black Lives in Blue, it’s All complicated.

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.