Editor’s Note

Contemporary issues manifest in narratives, driving them to utopian or dystopian conclusions. Barnita Bagchi describes utopia as an imaginative creation of a possible world, while understanding “the fictiveness and the perpetual state of incompleteness that such worlds enshrine.” The state of the world has never been described as utopian, but many might attribute dystopian to [...]

Engaging in Difference Using Restorative Practices

Six hundred people from diverse backgrounds were seated in a hotel listening to a panel discussing the impact of Restorative Practices in schools. A director and a White woman shared the promising results of a randomized control study; elementary schools implementing Restorative Practices had decreased suspensions (Augustine et al. 1). Even more encouraging, this was [...]

James Baldwin’s Interpretation of Stagger Lee: Poetry and Politics


Church Burning

It got to the point where the town decided they’d just have to burn it down.  There didn’t seem to be any other way to it, though this realization came after many hours of discussion and sometimes heated argument.  The church-elder meeting that Wednesday evening ended with the menfolk agreeing with the Methodist preacher at [...]



Fashion as Protest: Conversant Imagery in Jared Yazzie’s Protest Fashion Line


Simone Weil’s Metaxu: Interrogating Truth


Art Interrupted: Where are the Indigenous Women?
