Writing

Many a time has history class been accused of being eurocentric. Eurocentric, who-cares-centric. People use big words just to seem important. In BISV, we’ve learned about the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians, and the Egyptians.

When a man is shot, bang in the neck

we do not

Discuss

Promise change

we do not tell our children that we will make this world better for them

we pray

Language: An Undiscovered Power

If I were to say “justice” or “courage,” it would conjure up something in your mind. Something different, perhaps, than what I would see in my mind. I could ask my friends, my parents, my teachers, my neighbors.

Look, she's awake!

I pointed to daikon girl,

seeing her awakened on a bed in a cell we'd come into after a certain 

paintbrush showed us the way.