Quote for Today: Ocean Vuong
I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn’t trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I …
Featured Artist: Yohanes Soubirius De Santo
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back Indonesian visual artist Yohanes Soubirius De Santo (2:4) with three intricate and socially conscious pen and ink illustrations: “Without Virtual Nanny” recalls a time …
Quote for Today: Desmond Tutu
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. ―Desmond Tutu, …
Featured Artist: Peggy Schimmelman
Welcome our Featured Artist for the day, poet and writer Peggy Schimmelman. We are pleased to feature her poem “An Empty Tip Jar,” which reminds us of the unrecognized prejudices …
Quote for Today: Melinda Gates
Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings. It is the key to ending deep inequality. We stigmatize and send to the margins people who …
Quote for Today: Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I’ll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because she is a woman, Judith cheerfully applies …
Quote for Today: Nadina LaSpina
We believed we were supposed to “cope” as best we could. As we talked, we realized the disability itself was not that big a deal for us. We had all …
Look and Listen #35: Deeyah Khan via TEDx
Today’s focus is on the work of Norwegian born Deeyah Khan, and shows how the empathy behind her filmmaking is rooted in her own story. She is famous for Banaz: …
Look and Listen #34: Titus Underwood, Nashville Symphony
Titus Underwood is the Principal Oboe for the Nashville Symphony. You might assume that, as an artist with a highly educated and elite ensemble like a symphony, he wouldn’t encounter …
Look and Listen #25: Colored Hearts
This short romantic film directed and written by Robin K. Johnson, who also stars, is a look at the voices that nag those in interracial relationships. Why do we celebrate …