By Julia Lima, TIWP Student I am angry at you, World! I am angry because you pick and push and shove and cut until I can reach your standards I am angry because you have standards I am angry because I can’t break free of your standards I am angry because you tell me to […]
She Is A Woman
By Julia Lima, TIWP Student She is a woman. She has been shamed by this world for her anger. What once was her ally has transformed into an immense war beast. She is suffering, suppressed, strong. She is unsociable, unstable, unleashed. She is shamed and shushed and shining. She is ready for her power to […]
A Simple Flow Chart to Improve Humanity
By Lizzie Arroyo, TIWP student I don’t think it’s possible to make the world completely good or completely horrible. All we can do is solve the problems we see in front of us and move onto the new issues that inevitably pop up. First end slavery, then get black men the vote, then get women […]
I’m Sorry
By Emily, TIWP Student I hate it when you yell at me. I hate it that you yell at me when we both know I’m trying my best. But apparently my best isn’t good enough for you. I even went in and talked to her about what I could do to be better. I studied […]
Your Unfettered Howl
By Izzy G., TIWP Student You pin up your hair and buckle your shoes and smile in the mirror. You like the way the gravel sounds when it grinds underneath your sneakers. The wind makes your nose pink and you dream of the day when the love and care for yourself radiates around you in […]
I Am More
By Julia Lima, TIWP student I am more than brown eyes and black hair. I am more than “Some Kind of Latina.” I am more than “You Speak Spanish, Right?” I am more than “Sorry, Let Me Explain it in Easy English.” I am more than “Are Your Parents Legal?” I am not what you […]
What I Know To Be True, II
By Tracy Poff, TIWP Women’s Program I know I am taken care of I know I have assistance I know I am OK I know all is well I know there is absolute truth I know I am Love. I know this life is not mine I know I am both of the Whole and […]
What I Know To Be True
By Ariele Taylor, TIWP Women’s Program We all need to be loved. We all need to be seen even if just by one person and feel their acceptance of us. What I know is we need to dare to love other people. But we can’t do it until we love ourselves. What’s true is […]
Beyond the Ballot Box
By Maureen Brown, TIWP Co-founder and Director of Operations and Strategy “Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I will meet you there.” —Rumi Let’s not argue about who is right. Unity won’t be possible if either side claims moral superiority. We can’t move forward believing those who voted […]
Dear World
By Kate Nerone, TIWP student If I had lived forever, And was baptized in the first Explosive sunrise, And kissed upon the head By a mother of salt and dirt And seeds, I would tell the world Not to hurt her. If I had lived forever, And had ripened amid the music Of dialects and […]
The Intuitive Voice 