I Stand with You by Hayley Fife Growing up, I never imagined I would have to post #BLM to help fight for my Black friends. As an 18-year-old member of Generation Z, I didn’t think that in my lifetime, we would still be fighting for […]
Holding Vigil for George Floyd by Cindy Stewart Under a nine-foot bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the Pacifist Memorial in Sherborn, Massachusetts Eight middle-aged women held space for the life of George Floyd. When he cried out for his mama as his neck […]
Flight by Kamil Czyz Cop’s knee on his neck,phones bore witness while he pleaded,but we stood back,obeying the badge.Believing the pledge. The next day,unyielding, unmovable rage.We overflowed streets with furyand fire,a pageant of soot and angst,a sacrifice of torched cars and golden buildingsto cleanse the […]
Speaking Up, Finally by Susan Barry-Schulz I am by no means an expert on racial justice issues. I grew up in a mostly white town and moved to another mostly white town in the Hudson Valley region of New York State with my husband and […]
It Took One Week by Ramon Jimenez It only took a week for peopleto come out of quarantine into the streets of Seattlemustering the will to face baton beatingsand gas blasting through the nighttime sky. Police officers armed to the teethwith military grade artillery,and a […]
Crying for Water City by Amy Stonestrom A strong gust of wind rattles the windows and shakes the house with such force that I wonder if I need to gather my chicks and hurry to the basement. Then nothing. All is calm. Minutes later I […]
Social Justice Today by Aprell May Breonna Taylor. Delano Walker Jr. Dominic May. Mark Scalise. Lenny Brown. Benjamin Schoolfield. Sandra Bland. Rodney King. Melvin Jones. George Floyd. Ramona Africa. John Africa. Emmett Till. Colin Kaepernick. Darryl Moss. Philando Castile. Atatiana Koquice Jefferson. Kendrick Johnson. Ahmaud […]
Here, in micro-flash nonfiction, writers make quick work of compelling stories. Leading up to Multiplicity‘s second themed issue, we present five short takes on work and working. If you enjoy these bite-sized stories, check back for the feast of essays, profiles and poems in “Work,” […]
By Suzanne Strempek Shea I left home for college with the normal amount of angst about meeting new people. I needn’t have wasted time fretting—I quickly found out I had an easy icebreaker. “You’re from where?” strangers would ask. “Palmer, Massachusetts.” They’d nod blankly, as […]
By Kara Lynn Puskey-Noble When life gets stressful, I go to the barn and clean stalls. Forking up manure, pushing around a loaded wheelbarrow, sweeping—caring for my livestock settles my mind and clears my head. Between the pandemic and the election, I’ve needed to spend […]