DISPATCHES 2.19: ROOM ROUNDTABLE
We will discuss with authors various topics arising from their pieces published in ROOM 2.19
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SPEAKING UP ABOUT TRUMP, AN EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME by Bandy X. Lee
Being involved in global violence prevention and dealing with genocides, gender-based violence, civil wars, and suicides, the last thing on my mind was domestic partisan politics.
A BATHROOM WITHOUT A SEAT by Yitzi Katz
I work at an agency in a central city in Israel that focuses on treating children who are survivors and perpetrators of sexual violence. The office has one bathroom with two private toilet rooms: a toilet without a toilet seat…
THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF BORDERS by Simon Western
Crossing borders in the recent past was probably less confusing and demanding than it is now. Institutions, social norms, and rituals made borders more rigid, and prior to the digital revolution and hyperglobalization, borders were more stable.
WOOLF AT THE DOOR by Dana Sinopoli
I am sitting in my office, thinking about rooms. Writing for Room has prompted this state of reverie, during which one of my favorite works, A Room of One’s Own, passes through my mind. In her essay, Virginia Woolf writes…
MY COUNTRY, MY SELF: SEPARATION, IDENTITY, AND DISSONANCE by Coline Covington
A young man came to see me suffering from what he described as an “identity crisis.” He felt lost and didn’t know who he was or what he wanted. His family had fled from their country of origin during a…
CHOICE by Mohamad Kebbewar
Mohamad Kebbewar was born and raised in Aleppo. Immigrating to Canada at age 19, Kebbewar earned a degree in history from Concordia University before becoming a graphic designer. He recently published a chapbook with JackPine Press entitled The Soap of…
PAINTING AS THEATRE OF AGENCY by Anne Sherwood Pundyk
Anne Sherwood Pundyk is a painter and writer based in Manhattan and Mattituck. Her recent solo exhibitions include Salena Gallery, LIU Brooklyn, NY; Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD; and Christopher Stout Gallery, Bushwick, NY. A selection of her group exhibitions…
COMING TO THE WEST by Natasha Kurchanova
I had a safe childhood growing up in Brezhnev-era Soviet Russia. My family was a rather typical one, according to the principle formulated by Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in…
PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION, SOROS, THE FEDERAL RESERVE, AND YOU by Carolyn Ellman
I can thank Donald Trump for one thing and one thing only: he got me to read things I never would have read before. As my anxiety about his rhetoric kept increasing, Jason Stanley’s book On How Fascism Works: The…
