Following the 1998 peace agreement in Northern Ireland, political violence has dramatically declined and the region has been promoted as a model for peacemaking. Human rights discourse has played an ongoing role in the process but not simply as the means to promote peace. The language can also become a weapon as it is appropriated and adapted by different interest groups to pursue social, economic, and political objectives. Indeed, as violence still periodically breaks out and some ethnocommunal and class-based divisions have deepened, it is clear that the progression from human rights...
Following the 1998 peace agreement in Northern Ireland, political violence has dramatically declined and the region has been promoted as a model fo...
Confessional and free verse, poetry and pieces of memoir organized around the literary and real life themes of self-preservation, deep personal and social observation, and power, both abusive and healing. Poetry written under the covers, on the sly, in between parenting, divorcing an abusive ex, falling in love with a superhero, and processing a life half lived due to domestic abuse and limited understandings of how to get free. Part 1 in a series of poetry grounded in the trajectory of freedom, in the narrative of gratitude for life lessons, in the spirit of love as healing and family as...
Confessional and free verse, poetry and pieces of memoir organized around the literary and real life themes of self-preservation, deep personal and so...
