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Posts Tagged: water crisis

The Possible Absence of a Future: Talking with Jorie Graham

By Erin Lyndal Martin

August 14th, 2017

Jorie Graham discusses her latest collection, Fast, the terrifying destruction of our planet, a happy formal accident, and how to live in times of world crisis.

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On Suffering and Sympathy

By Matthew Clair

December 27th, 2016

What is the distance between sympathy and action? How do we travel from one to the other?

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Tags: academia, action, activism, boarding school, Cambridge, Chicago, classism, criminal justice system, Ellen Fontenelle, family, Flint, Flint water crisis, Fusion, ghetto, Gordon Parks, graduate school, Harlem, infrastructure, inner city, Iraq, James Baldwin, journalism, lead poisoning, Life Magazine, Lisa John Rogers, Massachusetts, Matthew Clair, Michigan, Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, photograph, photography, police brutality, police shooting, police violence, pollution, poverty, racial equality, racial inequality, Racism, Regarding the Pain of Others, research, riots, Samaria Rice, segregation, Sincere Smith, social justice, sociology, susan sontag, sympathy, Tamir Rice, time magazine, war, water, water crisis

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