PROMISE I stood in Loguen’s park, Rescuing Jerry again 169 years later Only our Jerry’s are a long list of son’s and daughters that never got to breathe again. I…
Racial Justice
Oh, God, here we go again: another round of discussions on “diversity” with the aim of writing a statement of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” at my workplace. I’d rather be sitting…
- Racial Justice
Just Because You Are Sleeping with a Black Man, Doesn’t Make You Black
by Sara Allieby Sara AllieI need to make this clear to all my non-black people who decide to date black men and women — particularly white women. I have come across many white women…
- CultureRacial Justice
Dear Future Hollywood Executives: Please Remember Us in Your Films About the Pandemic
Dear Future Hollywood Executives, This is a dispatch from June 2020, in the middle of a pandemic and escalated racial-political tensions. The world has gone mad; from Rome to Dallas,…
Karens are everywhere these days – demanding to see the manager, insisting that if they don’t get their roots touched up immediately they’ll set their KitchenAid mixers on fire, and…
you move like ocean tides graceful yet immersive, flowing between living and dying. I float within your sea, and I will continue to drift, even if you’re gone. even when…
There are five of us. After over a week of protests, we know we are safest if we go in numbers. In large, shiny, silver letters, Chad has the letters…
It’s been a long, exhausting week for Black people. The wound from Ahmaud Arbery’s lynching by retired cops is still fresh. This week George Floyd joined Breonna Taylor on the…
I have a problem. I have an unchangeable soul. I have a soul that has a problem. I remember the first time I heard it. I was in the fifth…
The Syndrome Mag is committed to elevating black voices. As a response to the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and countless others, and the continuous systematic violence…
