Quote for Today: Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
For those who haven’t yet experienced climate collapse in our own bodies, a history not yet written into us, the feeling it arrives in the shape of shadows, an atmospheric …
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: Reni Eddo-Lodge
If you are disgusted by what you see, and if you feel the fire coursing through your veins, then it’s up to you. You don’t have to be the …
Quote for Today: Alicia Garza
Diversity is what happens when you have representation of various groups in one place. Representation is what happens when groups that haven’t previously been included, are included. Intersectionality is what …
Featured Artist: Jagoda Zwiernik
Today we welcome the last of Synkroniciti’s “Empowered” artists, Jagoda Zwiernik, a visual artist from Poland residing in Scotland. Jagoda’s work is profound for its intersectionality, vulnerability and body positivity. …
Quote for Today: Audre Lorde
I have seen situations where white women hear a racist remark, resent what has been said, become filled with fury, and remain silent because they are afraid. That unexpressed …
Featured Artist: Jonathan Yungkans
Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome back poet Jonathan Yungkans, this time with some wonderfully edgy social justice and political pieces. “Batman Came Out and Clubbed Me” takes us back to …
Featured Artist: Bill Vernon
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome writer Bill Vernon with “Short Fuse,” which explores currents of oppression and intersectionality (before the latter was an official term) in the American workplace of …
Quote for Today: Kimberlé Crenshaw
In 1976, Emma DeGraffenreid and several other black women sued General Motors for discrimination, arguing that the company segregated its workforce by race and gender: Blacks did one set …
Quote for Today: Wallace Stegner
“What do you mean, ‘Angle of Repose?’ she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother’s life, and I said it was the angle at which a …