Writing

  • Activists Convene in Bali for International Summit on Women and Climate

    By Andrea Gutierrez » Orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in make/shift (Win­ter 2014/2015, no. 16) In August 2014, grass­roots activists from around the world con­verged on Bali for the Sum­mit on Women and Cli­mate. The four-day sum­mit was the first meet­ing of its kind, a rare oppor­tu­ni­ty for around eighty activists from thir­ty-sev­en coun­tries to forge new alliances across movements—women’s rights…

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  • Readers Guide for “Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California’s Inland Empire”

    By Andrea Gutierrez » Orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in the Read­ers Guide for Inlan­dia: A Lit­er­ary Jour­ney Through Cal­i­for­ni­a’s Inland Empire, 2011. Most peo­ple know it as the Inland Empire. Young folks often call it sim­ply “the I.E.” But here, we take you on a jour­ney through Inlan­dia, a lit­er­ary anthol­o­gy that attempts to cap­ture the 27,000 square…

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  • Excerpt from “Schutzwall”

    Excerpt from “Schutzwall” (In Your Ear: Select­ed Writ­ings from Oak­land Word, 2010)

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