Category Fall 2024 Issue

Open Letter to the Irish Radical Community

In the troubling times the US is going through, I ask for your time to reflect on our next steps in search of a more egalitarian society under the Trump administration. Hopefully, our community will be able to continue fighting for change through our mobilization and unification. I ask you to engage, study, learn, and teach politics as your civic duty: not because it’s fun, not because we like it, but because we care.

In Defense of Throwing Soup

On October 14th, 2022, climate activists from the advocacy group Just Stop Oil threw a can of tomato soup on Vincent Van Gogh's “Sunflowers.” Jerry Saltz declares that this climate action demonstrates an “implied hatred of any other idea of beauty.” What, then, is this “other idea of beauty” that our activists have so outrageously profaned?

What Rough Beast

This poem takes a golden shovel poetic form, inspired by W.B. Yeats’s 1919 poem, “The Second Coming”. Reading the last word of each line will reveal Yeats’s original poem

Cyborg Park

Recently, I attended a performance in Tai Kwun Contemporary, an art museum in Hong Kong’s Central. “Cyborg Park” by Taiwanese artist Jun-yu Chen explores “constructed nature”.