This issue of The Elephant has been a very long time in development. And in these final days, as it has come into existence, the internet is flooded with the Kavanaugh and Blasey Ford hearings and the country’s response. Blasey… Read more ›
Four years ago, soon after completing a master’s degree and when I was well into my 30s, I taught college-level English full time, as an adjunct. This means that my combined income from instructing plus supplemental work in the library… Read more ›
Above: Shuhada Street, the main industrial street in Hebron, is closed to Palestinians, effectively bisecting the city. To cross the street you must go miles to get around it. Palestinian women are walking on the other side of the barrier.… Read more ›
Day 1 It was a 15-hour day – more than 13 hours at the detention center meeting with clients, and then a few hours back at the hotel regrouping with the team and entering case notes into the electronic filing… Read more ›
by Amy Being white in rural West Africa has unexpected drawbacks. There’s all the pointing and staring from the crowd as you arrive in a far outpost of a village via a decrepit Jeep. Then there’s the kids who dare… Read more ›
