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A poem for when we watch injustice like a captive audience
World speaking out

A poem for when we watch injustice like a captive audience

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Tamara Pearson

We Lived Happily during the War And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house— I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth … Continue reading →

The Vivid Dangers of Our Indifference to a Hellish World
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The Vivid Dangers of Our Indifference to a Hellish World

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Tamara Pearson

Obligatory apathy: We live in a society that despises any sign of caring about just how bad things are for most people. The planet is corroding and smoldering, and time and resources are going into nuclear weapons and sending humanity into its own carefully prepared hell. The unequal global economy is efficiently stimulating the starvation … Continue reading →

Apathy in poems and quotes
World speaking out

Apathy in poems and quotes

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Tamara Pearson

Many of the wonderful ways that people have captured this most stifling of things: “We’ve forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We’ve ceased to be runners. We plod from … Continue reading →

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Resistance words is run by author and journalist Tamara Pearson. Here you'll find her writing and articles, as well as resistance writing by excluded voices from around the world. The aim is to promote writing and creativity as tools for justice. There are discussions about the book and media industries and writing world, as well as writing exercises for liberation.

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