The Art of the Essay
If modern social movements wish to accomplish their goals, which requires motivating the emotions of our moment, we’ll need to make literary art forms essential elements of their movement molecules. To do that, we’ll need to free the essay from its prison, reinvigorate it, and unleash it on the world.
Art is Activism: Why Social Movements Need Art and Artists
When we imagine activists, we often picture protestors marching down streets to shout at police … We tend to overlook artists even though these artists can be as much an activist as anyone engaged in a street protest.
Through work that gives vision for new worlds, by embodying new cultures in the act of creation, Artists are essential activists in any movement …