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002: SHADOWS

September 2019

The I is shadowed.

Ejatu SHAW - 'Polypnea' (from POLY-) 2017

Editorial Statement

Word Count: 1,441

by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

An introduction to SHADOWS from Stillpoint Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief.

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With POLY- (POLYPNEA, POLYGLOT & POLYDIPSIA)
photography by EJATU SHAW
Tanya Lukin Linklater 'Water' (Still)
Tanya Lukin Linklater 'Water' (Still)

WALKING IN THE SHADOWS

Word Count: 2,358

by Marcie Rendon

Walking the Red River to honor Murdered & Missing Indigenous women.

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With WATER
a video by TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER
A tapestry depicting a still of a video screen, a car crash with the text "she smashed my mom's car, passing out at the wheel"

Desire and Pleasure

Word Count: 2,184

by Franco 'Bifo' Berardi

On why we’d be fools to sever pleasure from desire.

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With INTERVENTION, HAPPY TRAIL & 911 CALL
artwork by ERIN M. RILEY
Duncan McKellar 'Ray of Hope' (still)
Duncan McKellar 'Ray of Hope' (still)

BIOPOLITICAL WARS IN THE ERA OF THE ALT-RIGHT

Word Count: 3,208

by Dr A. Kiarina Kordela

A warning to the left on the dehumanizing potentials of shame.

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With RAY OF HOPE
a video by DUNCAN McKELLAR
A digital illustration depicting a broken vase in numerous pieces, a black figure and a white figure woven into the black and white pattern. Pink background.

Detached Complicity and Willful Disbelief: Challenging Attitudes on Race and Racism in Europe

Word Count: 2,070

by Joe von Hutch

On why it’s time to stop believing white people came from Europe, and that Europe is a continent at all.

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With artwork by HANNA LEE JOSHI
Abstract painting in yellows, weaving hands and fingers into bulbous shapes
 
Abstract painting in yellows, weaving hands and fingers into bulbous shapes

THE OVERWHELMING URGE

Word Count: 1,168

by Ella Frears

Poetry inspired by the repressed feminine origins in the history of psychoanalysis.

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With GREY CLOUD and YELLOW DROOP
artworks by SARAH SLAPPEY
A black and white photograph of three statues wrapped in white sheets on a tiled square

On the Myths of Being White and Being Exceptional

Word Count: 3,193

by Elizabeth Tannen

On the lies that white privilege tells.

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With CONQUERORS & MONSTER
photographs by PAMELA COHN
Kate Holford - 'When we went there we walked the perimeter' (still) (2019)
Kate Holford - 'When we went there we walked the perimeter' (still) (2019)

FISHING FOR FALLEN LIGHT

Word Count: 3,122

by Lora Matz

One psychotherapist’s journey from extreme poverty & domestic abuse, through institutional abuse & clandestine drug testing in the US psychiatric system, into transcendence & a life of healing.

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With WHEN WE WENT THERE WE WALKED THE PERIMETER
artwork by KATE HOLFORD

Non-fiction Review: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

Word Count: 1,739

by Rebecca Gilroy

A review of Lisa Taddeo’s ‘Three Women’ and the hidden experiences of sex and gender for three white women in America.

https://stillpointmag.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/STS-Erika-Shadows.mp3

SEEKING THE SELF: ERIKA

Word Count: 441

by Seeking The Self

As Stillpoint Magazine continues its collaboration with Seeking the Self, we meet Erika, who lost a loved one and her faith at the same time. How can the shadows of this experience rehabilitate her into a coming back to the self?

Photograph of a shallow hole in the ground, in a rural landscape with hills in the background and a tree

EXILE

Word Count: 4,102

by Sokol Ferizi

A short story on the exile of the body, tongue, mind, and soul.

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With KOSTËRRC (CH)
artwork by PETRIT HALILAJ

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