Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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In the 1980s, rabbit’s feet were everywhere. They hung off keychains in gas stations, corner stores, and mall kiosks across my part of Michigan. They came dyed in bright colors, attached to cheap chains, sold as symbols of good luck. Even then, it never quite made sense. A severed foot on a keychain was supposed…
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There are moments in American history when a legal decision does not feel like a technical adjustment but like a rupture. This latest Supreme Court ruling limiting the 1965 Voting Rights Act lands in that space. It is not neutral. It is not incremental. It’s power being taken back. The elimination of representation of Black…
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In American Fiction, there’s a moment every creator, every doer, should hear, and most aren’t ready for. An agent looks a writer dead in the eye and breaks the illusion: Creativity and commerce aren’t enemies. Then he reaches for a bottle. Not metaphorically, literally. “Johnnie Walker makes three kinds of scotch,” he says.Blue. Black. Red. Different…
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Sometimes your phone rings, and your life can change in an hour. It does not announce itself as a turning point. It feels ordinary at first, just another moment in a long line of moments. But then something shifts, and you realize that what you are hearing is connected to something that has been building…
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If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,And…
Cloaking Inequity 
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