Month: June 2020

Answer these questions to see how comfortable you really are with race

I stared at the posts of two of my white friends on Facebook, and my heart dropped.  Each post contained what seemed to include supportive at best, innocuous at worst illustrative photos, each began with the right words of racial awareness, both, about midway through, switched so delicately to  mirror the structure of white supremacy.  […]

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Apocalypse + Music = Thoughts about structures

When I first saw the name on the email, the name looked familiar, but I couldn’t place it.  Phillip Barcio.  It turns out that he wrote a fabulous review of Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption for the Western Humanities Review!  That’s why it sounded so familiar! The email was at the same time […]

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Melding music and ideas of the apocalypse

 Yesterday, I spoke with Phillip Barcio, who is an arts journalist. He also wrote a fabulous review for Bitterroot for the Western Humanities Review.What was really interesting about his interview is that he asks guests to think about the idea of apocalypse, and submit 10 pieces of music that would be meaningful for the guest […]

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