New hope for youth through spoken word poetry and Aubrey Barnes
Aubrey Barnes is a 27-year-old spoken word performer from the Quad Cities; a producer of shows for local artists; founder of an after-school program; and a teacher.
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Category: Columns
Live local musicians deserve our dollars
When musicians perform, audience members only see the final portion of their work. That show,...
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Bullying victims need adults to speak up
Whenever I reflect on the many moments that I felt less than my peers in school, the sinking...
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Black activism and ‘Facebook jail’
Dec. 16, 2017: Reported by a disgruntled person for a 90-day-old post about a bag of crackers....
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Being black in ‘progressive’ Iowa City
After living in the South most of my life, I decided to leave Texas back in 2012, decidedly headed...
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LGBTQ+ Pride in northwest Iowa’s ‘Steve King Country’
What’s it like to organize LGBTQ Pride in the home of hate speaker Steve King? Mike Goll, a co-founder of OC Pride, tells us first-hand.
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How I found paganism
As we leave the Pagan season of Imbolc and approach Ostara coming March 20th, it’s a good time to...
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To cis white women: “Who, exactly, is ‘us?’ “
“We know that our movement is empowered when all of us lift each other up,” Sen. Kirsten...
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Spoken word is exploding
Caleb Rainey Iowa’s spoken word community is a snowball rolling down a hill, picking up...
Read MoreJourney to nonbinary
Ox Fotheringham, former Iowa City resident Hide and mask. I was in fifth grade and had to catch the bus in 20 minutes. My choices for attire that day were laid out on my bed: either black gym shorts, or slightly shinier black...
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