Afterword: On Violence

By Omar Ricks on October 14, 2012

Of particular critical interest to us are social and political phenomena that block, negate, or limit the satisfaction of goods or ends that humans, especially the most vulnerable, minimally require for living free of structural violence.

–from The Feminist Wire Mission Statement

Over the past few days, many artists and writers have reflected on some of the ways that violence permeates modern civil and political society—how it operates and what effects it has on people. We have seen beautiful poetry, haunting short stories, and insightful essays. The reflections have focused on violence by various definitions and at various scales—from that of the individual psyche, to the interpersonal, to broadly structural forms of violence—like gendered violence and the violence against Black people, Native peoples, and other People of Color that structures US civil and political society.

We invite you to look through these pieces and take up the questions raised.

The Precarity of Latino/a Child-Citizen Subjects: From Dora the Explorer to Child Deportees

October 8, 2012

by Nicole Guidotti-Hernández

“Black Spaghetti;” or, “Spaghetti al Nero di Seppia”

October 8, 2012

by John Murillo

Sounding Off: On Violence

October 9, 2012

by Darnell L. Moore and Isaiah M. Wooden

Editor’s Commentary: On Violence

October 9, 2012