Wow Iva!!! Your new 10 commandments are stunning, and the Cantaloupe poem… oh don’t we all know what the algebra teacher would say, since we’ve heard it said so many times before. Why don’t we all know by now that a shirt (or skirt) does not demand a crime?
These pieces are remarkable, @Iva, as is your willingness to be a truth teller, even in Kentucky. Every word is a piercing reminder that we must keep working to stop this madness.
Obsessed with your voice and how you write into these terrible things. Thank you!!
Thank you! I think writing into them is the only way I’m staying sane, so it’s fundamentally very much an act of self-preservation 😂
Wow Iva!!! Your new 10 commandments are stunning, and the Cantaloupe poem… oh don’t we all know what the algebra teacher would say, since we’ve heard it said so many times before. Why don’t we all know by now that a shirt (or skirt) does not demand a crime?
“Shirt (or skirt) does not demand a crime” should be plastered on billboards EVERYWHERE!!
These pieces are remarkable, @Iva, as is your willingness to be a truth teller, even in Kentucky. Every word is a piercing reminder that we must keep working to stop this madness.
Thank you! Weirdly, I think KY has only served to deepen my commitment to a writing practice grounded in truth telling around unjust infrastructure
I'm still hoping to see you on a ballot!!!
Iva - Your responses are so powerful. I will be rereading your new 10 commandments over and over.
Thank you! It was (either oddly or unsurprisingly) cathartic writing it