Why do American men love violence? American males, regardless of their ethnicity, sexual orientation, social class, etc. are “baptized” into violence. American males, regardless of their ethnicity, sexual orientation, social class, etc. are “baptized” into violence. Within our political, cultural, and historical context, it is the air we first breathe upon as we exit the [...]
By Blaney I Was Born a Stranger in A Strange Land The land of my physical birth is an alien land to my very recent ancestors. The land that my infant body descended upon in this terra nova belongs to the “Gabrieleño-Tongva” peoples who occupied Los Angeles, the “City of the Angeles.” The City [...]
I recently returned to African soil from a first-time visit to rural Ireland, my ancestral homeland. Setting my feet again deep in African soil, feeling the languorous caress of Senegal’s breeze, the warming embrace from her sun on this continent that all life began was deeply revitalizing and invigorating. It calmed my body, [...]