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never kill yourself, your fave nonfiction author might one day write an article in @JewishCurrents about the nyc mayoral race
great article by Kim Phillips-Fein on the similarities between La Guardia and Zohran, and what lessons we can take away from the "Little Flower" jewishcurrents.org/lessons-from-l…
Media frens, @JewishCurrents is currently looking for a new executive editor: jewishcurrents.org/careers
The Measure of the World | @JewishCurrents 'By attending to the vibrant specificity of Black life, poet Dionne Brand contests the cruel mathematics of empire.' jewishcurrents.org/the-measure-of…
"To sustain poetry in the absence of its radical muse—left collective political action—to sustain poetry when there is no inspiration, that was my work." -- Dionne Brand via @JewishCurrents jewishcurrents.org/the-measure-of…
A masterful profile by Claire Schwartz. My sense of geography expanded reading this, learning about Toronto in the 70s in the swing of Black Power, Grenada in the 80s amidst socialist revolution. Schwartz shows how Brand's work holds open possibility amid empire's enclosures
“To sustain poetry in the absence of its radical muse—left collective political action—to sustain poetry when there is no inspiration, that was my work" A profile of the poet Dionne Brand by culture editor Claire Schwartz. Now online from our fall issue.
"In revolution, as in a line of poetry, meaning is flung open: 'You are,' Brand writes in Bread Out of Stone, 'making yourself for the future, and you do not even know the extent of it when you begin.'" A profile of poet Dionne Brand by Claire Schwartz jewishcurrents.org/the-measure-of…
We are hiring! Join our team as the next Executive Editor. Find out more information on our Careers page—looking forward to hearing from you.
"'For me, the line is the most crucial unit of a poem,' she told me. 'It hovers. It is full in its proposition'—like revolution, the we suspended, total in its possibility." A profile of poet Dionne Brand by Claire Schwartz jewishcurrents.org/the-measure-of…
"Imagining a Mamdani mayoralty ... means imagining a politically mobilized city that can push for real social change without needing permission from elites—a city in which the balance ... has shifted so that an investment in public services comes to seem like common sense."
The great Kim Phillips Fein on Zohran and La Guardia jewishcurrents.org/lessons-from-l…
Lessons from La Guardia. Very interesting. jewishcurrents.org/lessons-from-l…
Great essay by Kim Phillips-Fein comparing laguardia and Mamdani: jewishcurrents.org/lessons-from-l…
This sounds like a pretty great job at a terrific magazine.
Jewish Currents is hiring an executive editor to help lead the magazine. This person is a generalist, as comfortable editing hard news as with book reviews. A penchant for long-form reported features, and great with troubleshooting difficult pieces. Link in next tweet.
"That she recognizes the personhood of the mentally ill teen who took Ryan's life during a psychiatric episode is a testament to her strength and capacity to see outside herself when considering how New York City might be made a safer place for all its residents."