Voracious DPC:

The journal of an omnivorous reader, nerd for the arts, and believer in the public good.

“All good things must begin.” -Octavia Butler

February 21, 2021
Five Songs For The End of The Week

This has been a tough week. Find what you need where you can. The tragedy seems never-ending. One day we’ll be able to look back at all of this. There are a lot of politicians singing this song right now. We can only hope. Sometimes you have to know what you’re about. There’s no better…

February 20, 2021
Thinking of Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison

“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” -Audre Lorde “I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence.” -Toni Morrison Audre Lorde…

February 19, 2021
Five Songs For The End of The Week and The Beginning of The New Year

Easing into 2021 with gorgeous vocals and hope for better days ahead. The Queen of Soul live and lush. Has there really ever been a better version of “California Dreamin’” than this? Curtis Mayfield remains the smoothest to ever do it. Timeless. Koko Taylor never fails to blow you away.

January 1, 2021
The Only Way Through This is Together- Facing COVID-19 in 2021

2021 is going to require a collective change of consciousness and new ways of operating in the world. That change is possible and it will be hard. Who will be the helpers and the shepherds to share the vision of who we can be and keep the momentum going for better days for all of…

December 31, 2020
Angela Davis on change

“Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.” — Angela Davis

December 16, 2020
Five Songs For The End of The Week

It’s Friday and the year is almost over. 2020 has been 2020. Find joy and peace where you can. Here are five songs to end your week on a high note. Grace Jones +Disco = Perfection. Add Iggy Pop, ASAP Rocky, and Tyler, The Creator in a video ad featuring Cerrone and Ms. Jones’, Disco…

December 4, 2020
The Black Women Organizers Who Turned Georgia Blue

“When Georgia turned blue for Mr. Biden this year after record voter turnout, it validated the political vision and advocacy of a group of Black women who have led a decades-long organizing effort to transform the state’s electorate.” Felicia Davis, Deborah Scott, Helen Butler, and Nse Ufot are some of the organizers who turned the…

December 4, 2020
Dolly Parton on Octavia E. Butler’s “Kindred.”

What’s your favorite book no one else has heard of? Not enough folks know what a great book “Kindred,” by Octavia E. Butler, is. It’s kind of tricky to describe but somehow it all works — it’s about race relations and there’s time travel and romance. It’s powerful. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/books/review/dolly-parton-by-the-book-interview.html

December 4, 2020
Links for The Voracious

A little something from around the internet. Federally subsidized child care at the equivalent of $7.70 a day? The United States did it during World War II. Libertarianism apparently doesn’t work in the wild. What black bears, untested political theory and dismantling local government teaches us about the need for fully funded public education. Undermining…

November 3, 2020