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Complicity and Resistance in a Time of Genocidal Agony
What to Do? I am writing especially thinking about Palestinian women. They have suffered so immeasurably and grotesquely while they have tried to care for their children and their pregnancies, while being malnourished, dehydrated, starved, and heartbroken while death...
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![Raza Rumi and Sonali Samarasinghe on Survival and Journalism](https://www.theedgemedia.org/wp-content/uploads/WICB.png)
Raza Rumi and Sonali Samarasinghe on Survival and Journalism
On a recent episode of the WCIB news podcast “Asian in Ithaca: Stories of Race, Culture & Identity,” PCIM Director Raza Rumi told his story of working in, and being forced to flee, Pakistan. Sonali Samarasinghe, a journalist, human rights lawyer, and diplomat,...
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![Motherhood, Technology, and Natalia Almada’s “Users”](https://www.theedgemedia.org/wp-content/uploads/Users-Poster-head.png)
Motherhood, Technology, and Natalia Almada’s “Users”
Natalia Almada’s documentary essay film “Users” (2021) questions a mother’s deep ambivalence about technology. But the film’s aesthetics makes clear that she has already...
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Guilty of Sexual Abuse (But Not Rape?)
On Contemptuous Men and the Women who Fight Back A short note about the subtitle before I begin: it is interesting how these gender terms hold sometimes in all their...
![The Republican Debt Ceiling Proposal Saves the Economy on the Backs of Latinas](https://www.theedgemedia.org/wp-content/uploads/May-Latinas.png)
The Republican Debt Ceiling Proposal Saves the Economy on the Backs of Latinas
It is May. In the U.S., Italy, Japan, Mexico, and many other countries, it is a month that celebrates mothers. Deconstructed, it heralds women bearing and caring for...
![The Drifting Smoke of the Burned-Over District](https://www.theedgemedia.org/wp-content/uploads/South-Butler.png)
The Drifting Smoke of the Burned-Over District
South Butler, New York, is a forgotten byway in American history. Its moment of notoriety came and went. Now it is just a crossroad hamlet struggling to matter like so many...
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Capturing the Latino Vote
The 2024 election season has begun. Candidates identify political and policy priorities. Voters constantly wonder where on the political spectrum the country will land. At...
![How Bill Morrison’s “Incident” Accesses Police Body Cams to Give Voice to a Crime](https://www.theedgemedia.org/wp-content/uploads/MacDonald-Incident.png)
How Bill Morrison’s “Incident” Accesses Police Body Cams to Give Voice to a Crime
Bill Morrison is known for his often-magical transformations of archival film in various states of decay into new works that speak to both past and present. Until the recent...
![Resets, Rethinkings, Rewirings: Reflections on a Roundtable Discussion about AI](https://www.theedgemedia.org/wp-content/uploads/Edgy-Conversation-Header.png)
Resets, Rethinkings, Rewirings: Reflections on a Roundtable Discussion about AI
I found myself seated at the front of a lecture hall on the campus of Ithaca College in New York. It was March 30, 2023. Philosopher Craig Duncan of Ithaca College and Raza...
![Further Stirring the Ashes of the Burned-Over District](https://www.theedgemedia.org/wp-content/uploads/Burned-over-stirring.png)
Further Stirring the Ashes of the Burned-Over District
Because a number of my maternal ancestors settled in South Butler, New York, and surrounding communities in the first decades of the 19th century, I have mused on any...
![The Epistemology of Ignorance in DeSantis World](https://www.theedgemedia.org/wp-content/uploads/Ron_DeSantis_52291373965.png)
The Epistemology of Ignorance in DeSantis World
“What is happening in Florida?” asked a recent headline in The Chronicle of Higher Education. “Since the New Year, Gov. Ron DeSantis and his Republican allies have ramped up...