vandal
a literary/art journal for transformative social change
our newest issue is out.
[in]security 2.1
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1. it is not a reaction to something, but a catalyst to conversation.
2. it is the immigrant and the disenfranchised, the frustrated and the abandoned, the hopeful and the progressive.
3. is the work of the activist, for we believe that art and literature are obsolete if they don't move you, make you cry, make your bowels hurt from beneath your skin, make you outraged, sympathetic, or simply give a fuck.
what.we're.talking.about
Eve Ensler
//Insecure at Last::A Political Memoir//
"...It gets easier to hurt people because you do not feel what’s inside them. It gets easier to lock them up, force them to be naked, humiliate them, occupy them, invade them, kill them--because they do not exist. They are merely obstacles to your security..."
Chris Hedges
//War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning//
"...The only antidote to ward off self-destruction and the indiscriminate use of force is humility and, ultimately, compassion. Reinhold Niebuhr aptly reminded us that we must all act and then ask for forgiveness. This book is not a call for inaction. It is a call for repentance..."
