Composite: Dennis Lan. Image source: iStock. The day after US missiles began raining terror on Iran I flew to California from my home in Massachusetts to sit with a friend undergoing cancer treatment. It’s my first time caring for a friend with cancer. It was not my first time moving through airports while across theContinue reading “Bella Ciao: Sitting with My Friend’s Cancer While the American Empire Collapses”
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My Father Was an Anti-Fascist Too
I might’ve been eight when I first asked my father if he’d ever killed anyone. “No,” was all he said. But I asked again, and again, in spare moments, and the more I asked, the more he didn’t say. It was the 1970’s and I had an obsession with WWII. I built model planes andContinue reading “My Father Was an Anti-Fascist Too”