The Written Image: Ediciones Vigía
Named after Plaza de la Vigía (Watchtower Square) in Matanzas, Cuba, Ediciones Vigía was cofounded in Matanzas in April 1985 by visual artist Rolando Estévez Jordán and poet Alfredo Zaldívar.…
Literary MagNet: Patricia Q. Bidar
In 2018, Patricia Q. Bidar, at the age of fifty-eight, published her first pieces of flash fiction. More than seven years later she has published over a hundred stories in…
The Literature of Illness, Healing
Bellevue Literary Review (BLR)
Writers’ History Lessons: The People’s Recorder podcast
The first episode of the People’s Recorder podcast begins with host Chris Haley declaring: “In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, when many said America was at her lowest point, something…
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures. Assembly Bill No. 1043 was…
New law puts Kansas at vanguard of denying trans identities on drivers licenses, birth certificates
Kansas is set to invalidate about 1,700 driver’s licenses held by transgender residents and roughly as many birth certificates under a new law that goes beyond Republican-imposed restrictions in other…
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
He played a key role in ending apartheid South Africa’s secret weapons program in the 1980s by helping the African National Congress bomb critical facilities. {read} Renfrew Christie, a South…
Bestselling Women Writers in Japan Defy Cliché
Mieko Kawakami, Asako Yuzuki, and other novelists offer fewer cats and cafés, more cultural critique
Scientists discover why high altitude protects against diabetes
Thin mountain air may fight diabetes by turning red blood cells into sugar sponges.
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Together with two other researchers, they set out to look into Persona, the San Francisco-based startup that’s used by Discord for biometric identity verification – and found a Persona frontend…