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  • Maybe I should start with the good things. But it is not the good things that my thoughts prod at, that curdle in my mind…

    +: Bridges Fall Down

    Bridges Fall Down

  • Over the top and there it is: the Southern Patagonia Ice Field, the second-largest ice sheet in the world outside of the polar regions…

    +: Above the Ice: The Huemul Circuit

    Above the Ice: The Huemul Circuit

  • They call the community at AIDS/Lifecycle “the Love Bubble”, which is cheesy and something I typically have trouble embracing for that; such things are, all too often, a façade, an untruth…

    +: On your left

    On your left

  • For years, I have watched as friends of mine in Ukraine and Russia have pleaded with Western governments to stop supporting Russian dictator Putin–not just politically, but financially, through the purchase of fossil fuels. Even “climate-friendly” politicians ignored them…

    +: Fueling Destruction

    Fueling Destruction

  • This is about where I didn’t go as much as where I did go. Landscapes shifted drastically over space but comprehension remained steady. I knew how to interact. I understood everything…

    +: Stuck

    Stuck

  • A traveling band of robbers fell upon our household one night. They were as senseless and villainous as robbers are in fairy tales. Father stood in the door with a pitchfork and shouted to the older children. “Run! Escape! Fly!” The robbers overpowered my father…

    +: Human History is Always Dying

    Human History is Always Dying

  • Sometimes the world seems as if it is made up of different planes of being that may overlap, or crash into each other, or may simply stay parallel, not touching…

    +: Intersections

    Intersections

  • Ozersk, Russia did not used to be on any maps. Residents, if they left the city—with permission, of course—, were unable to share where they were from. Even today, one cannot freely enter or depart the city…

    +: Nadezhda Kutepova: the white crow of a nuclear city

    Nadezhda Kutepova: the white crow of a nuclear city

  • It was a date that Alla Chernysheva was able to recall without hesitation: on June 10, 2007, she went to a meeting about the woods near her home in Khimki…

    +: Alla Chernysheva: Words Protect

    Alla Chernysheva: Words Protect

  • Since he was a kid, Evgeny Vitishko has been interested in protecting the environment. He went from planting trees and cleaning up litter as a child to spending nearly two years in a penal colony as a result of his environmentalism…

    +: Evgeny Vitishko: do that which is right

    Evgeny Vitishko: do that which is right

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