Resilience means lots of things to people. Merriam Webster dictionary refers to resilience as a noun, and defines it as 1) the capability of a strained […]
Greetings, PJSA! As 2022 comes to an end, we reflect on this past year’s accomplishments, missteps, and remaining challenges. This past year was difficult and […]
On July 21, 2020, just after dropping off some books at the public library, a driver going the wrong way on a one-way street plowed […]
In most of Europe right now, a Ukrainian passport functions as a ticket on public transport: simply showing a Ukrainian passport to the driver or […]
People say I’m strong. They can’t imagine how I deal with the day to day. How do I move on? How do I continue to […]
March 15, 2021 Was it always like this? Worrying about the password on my phone, if it’s long enough. Checking the levels of the liquor […]
5, 255 days. More than 14 years. For nearly a decade and half, Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin remained behind steel bars—caged and condemned to die for brutal […]
To call for social and personal resilience against the encroachments of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) may seem like the plot of a science fiction […]
Resilience, both in the personal and political sphere, has defined my adulthood and adolescence dating back to when I was a 4th grader in southwest […]
Growing up in rural Michigan, I knew very little about Cuba. And I never gave any real thought to there being a Jewish population on […]
Introduction Educational organizations do not exist in a vacuum unaffected by social issues in the larger community in which they exist. The news media, numerous […]
Introduction The Israeli occupation of Palestine has persisted for nearly seventy-five years. The ethnic cleansing operation has claimed an estimated 150,000 lives since 1987 and […]
Introduction The history of nonviolent civil resistance in the Algerian struggle for independence remains harshly under celebrated. In Arab and Western scholarship alike, the focus […]
The fantastical fragrance of desert rain Taut upon the thorns and thistles Prickled wafts of pellucid jojoba Damp fires searing ancient mounds Minted effluent from […]
Resilience is a vital attribute, conceptually and pragmatically speaking. In a world where it often seems that the only guarantee we have is greater instability […]
Shingai Njeri Kagunda is an Afrosurreal/futurist storyteller from Nairobi, Kenya with a Literary Arts MFA from Brown University. Shingai’s work has been featured in the […]
After taking this picture at the Étienne Brûlé Park in Canada, I looked deeply at the image which presented itself on my smartphone. I had […]
This assembly of haikus is a personal journal of resilience throughout a year’s time. It is a reflection on loss, yet its most resounding theme […]
