By People’s History of the Grand Valley Grand Junction has a rich feminist history. In 1893, when Colorado voted to give women the right to vote, Mesa County passed the amendment by the largest margins in the state. Photo of Suffragist rally on Main St. Circa 1910s. In 1895, Elizabeth Taylor and her husband started … Continue reading Some Grand Junction Women From History You Should Know
Book Review: Not So Far From Home
Charles Quimby, author of Not So Far From Home: Owning Homelessness in my Own Backyard, has long worked with the unhoused populations of Grand Junction and Minneapolis. In this accessible and entertaining book, Quimby vividly documents the lives and struggles and dreams of the people he has served, as well as the systemic failures that … Continue reading Book Review: Not So Far From Home
Change Making and Story Telling: A Conversation with Margaret Killjoy
Take the history of fiction… Ursula le Guin of course, but also Tolstoy. There’s this entire huge, influential lineage that descends from Tolstoy’s Christian Anarchism. Oscar Wilde…. famous as a playwright and a witty gay man, but he wrote one of the better and most widely-read anarchist socialist tracts of the 19th century, one that gets into everything we’re talking about now… it’s called The Soul of Man Under Socialism and in it he argues that the point of art isn’t to make socialism, the point of socialism is to enable us to make art. He also like, bailed anarchists out of jail. The Modern Library wrote a list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. Three of the top 5 were written by anarchists
The Revolutionist 