Quote for Today: Ava DuVernay
I talk a lot about my challenge with permission and the culture of permission in which we live. Women, people of color, and anyone outside of the dominant gaze …
Quote for Today: Jia Tolentino
The timidity in mainstream feminism to admit that women’s choices—not just our problems—are, in the end, political has led to a vision of “women’s empowerment” that often feels brutally disempowering …
Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
…those who value stability, who fear transience, uncertainty, change, have erected a powerful system of stigmas and taboos against rootlessness, that disruptive, anti-social force, so that we mostly conform, we …
Quote for Today: Tom Robbins
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they’d rather …
Featured Artist: Aaron White
Synkroniciti is proud to welcome author Aaron White. Our September 1st issue will feature Soonest, Saturn, a deeply personal and highly relatable short story about a mother trying to do the …
Quote for Today: Dean Jackson
When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But …
Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter …
Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with …
Quote for Today: Wilfred Trotter
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful …
Quote for Today: Summer Brennan
Our shoes pin us to the world, like Peter Pan to his shadow. More than simply facilitating our movement out-of-doors, they mediate between the wearer and the ground. Perhaps …