Life over Lithium
By Jessica Ng
Volume 25, no. 2, Bleeding Earth
The antique postcards pretend to show a more innocent, pre-crisis America. But Capitalism is baked into those old-timey pictures. We live -- and have lived from the beginning -- in an economic system that places profit above all other...
The 2019 explosion at Philadelphia's main petroleum refinery and the resulting release of 5000 pounds of hydroflouric acid was a watershed moment that warrants a closer look at the conditions of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES)...
"Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings" uses the gut’s microbes as a way of looking deeply into immigrant health and resisting processes of colonization. This multimedia installation illuminates the vibrant materiality of immigrant...
Why do I keep talking about memories?
Summer falls, and I peel open the scab
I’ve chosen not to open until now.
Oil kills everything—the land, the mangrove,
the water bodies and the creek.