Interactive Documentary on “Comfort Women” Asks You to Listen to Victims of Sexual Violence

Click Here to Read:  Interactive Documentary on “Comfort Women” Asks You to Listen to Victims of Sexual Violence: Tiffany Hsiung’s The Space We Hold spotlights the stories of three women held in sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II by Allison Meier on the HyperAllergic website on August 29, 2017.

Still from The Space We Hold interactive documentary (screenshot via National Film Board of Canada)

Why did Trump pardon Arpaio?

Click Here to Read:   Why did Trump pardon Arpaio? Because he sees himself in the former sheriff By Catherine Rampell in the Washington Post on August August 28, 2017.

Post editorial writer Quinta Jurecic says President Trump’s reprehensible, and legal, pardon of former sheriff Joe Arpaio reveals weaknesses in the American system of government. (Gillian Brockell, Kate Woodsome/The Washington Post)

Writer’s Wednesday: Edith Sitwell

Click Here to Read:  Edith Sitwell on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Edith Sitwell 1887–1964 on the Poetry Foundation website.

Click Here to Read: Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius by Richard Greene – review : Can a biography of Sitwell match the drama of her life, asks Alexandra Harris on the Guardian website on March 4, 2011.

Click Here to Read: Edith Sitwell, eccentric genius: A new biography of the avant garde poet Edith Sitwell is applauded by her great-nephew William Sitwell
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