by Robin Kirk | Feb 4, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
This Human Rights Watch video was compiled mainly through cell phone clips freely and proudly shared on the Internet. Released four days prior to the opening of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the video includes the beatings of gays and lesbians in Russia....
by Robin Kirk | Jan 31, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
The theme of the BorderWork(s) Humanities Lab that I am a part of a Duke is how the idea of a division between people — a border, a wall, an invisible divider (like race or religion) can (among other things) either threaten the security of communities or enhance...
by Robin Kirk | Jan 8, 2014 | Robin Kirk
Check out my short story “Sugar Pop,” which won an honorable mention in the Chicago Reader’s 2014 Fiction issue. When the alarm buzzed Rosa awake, she knew she wasn’t going to give the old man extra sugars that day. Every Saturday, he asked for...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 30, 2013 | Robin Kirk
Important perspective from Heather Linebaugh, an American who is a former Unmanned Ariel Vehicle (aka drone) analyst in the US Air Force, writing in The Guardian: We always wonder if we killed the right people, if we endangered the wrong people, if we destroyed an...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 19, 2013 | Robin Kirk
I can’t help but hear this excellent news in the voice of Death, the narrator from Marcus Zusak’s marvelous The Book Thief. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, the death penalty’s “sinking popularity is resulting in fewer executions...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 5, 2013 | featured, Robin Kirk
