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Contributors Share their Thoughts on Labor, Writing, and the Current Climate While creating this issue, we thought about labor as both noun and verb, tangible and intangible. We discussed how labor is often hidden from view, how it can be private or public. How it can be an act of love or something that must be endured. Labor is often categorized—by type, by value—and that…
Contributors Share their Thoughts on Labor, Writing, and the Current Climate While creating this issue, we thought about labor as both noun and verb, tangible and intangible. We discussed how labor is often hidden from view, how it can be private or public. How it can be an act of love or something that must be endured. Labor is often categorized—by type, by value—and that…
Michał Nowak reads his short story, “A Little Faith, Man,” from the Labor issue. For the week of May 1-7 we’re offering a free pdf of the entire issue, available here. Listen now: Michał Nowak is a comics creator and writer from San Francisco. He has studied at the University of San Francisco and Portland Community College, and is a contributing editor to Frontera. His writing…
Interview with Aduri and Translator Shubomoy Haque, Savar, Bangladesh The Rana Plaza collapse was an accident that occurred on April 24, 2013, in Savar, Bangladesh, in which Rana Plaza, an eight-story commercial building with five garment factories inside, collapsed, killing 1,134 garment workers. We, an American woman and a male NGO officer, enter Aduri’s one-room home. Our seats, her bed; she squats on…
I search the blue dawn for her fire. She scents of smoke and burnt matches. I steer her back to the house. My stepfather will wake soon, demand bread and tea, snatch her by the hair, rattle until the lights turn on. Sometimes, I want to push her towards the open gate, watch as she crosses the slip of road right into the side…