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Jess X Chen articles

Jess X Chen is a Chinese American multi-disciplinary poet, artist/activist and filmmaker, and the author of chapbook, From the Earthworm To The Night. Her work intimately exposes narratives of ecological and colonial trauma, Asian-American diaspora, often from the perspective of the Earth itself. She is a member of Justseeds, a collective of socially-engaged artists. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and currently is working on writing and directing her first feature film under the production house, LoveHoldLetGo. Her films have been recognized by Asian-American International Film Festival, Yale Environmental Film Festival, her visual art has been exhibited by the Wingluke Museum and she has completed three national tours of spoken word poetry across the USA and Canada. She is one of the founding facilitators of Artists Against Police Violence, an online blog of graphic and arts resources for communities who fight against anti-Black police violence.

VIDEO: Migration is Both Natural and Magical to This Artist

by Jess X Chen - May 11, 2017

Migration is Both Natural and Magical

When I was discovering art for the first time, I felt like there was a door that opened in my family’s ancestry, and I could be the first person to tell our story without the fear of censorship.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: China, Political Artwork, Worldwide

VIDEO: Ignite Closing Plenary at Netroots Nation 2015

by Jess X Chen - October 11, 2015

Ignite Closing Plenary

Jess X Chen, Poet, Artist/Activist, Filmmaker, Educator and Democracy Chronicles contributor speaks at the Ignite Closing Plenary at Netroots Nation 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Democracy Charity, Democracy Protests, Political Artwork

Safe Passing For Colibrí on the US Mexican Border

by Jess X Chen - June 25, 2015

Colibrí on US Mexican Border

The Spanish for hummingbird is colibrí. Colibrí are an indigenous symbol for safe passing. They soar as messengers between life and death, and their hundreds of species have been found migrating across the Mexico border

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Mexico, Political Artwork, South America

Why Own the Earth, When the Possession of it Will Kill You?

by Jess X Chen - May 21, 2015

Why Own the Earth

As I watch the Earth draw nearer to its’ human-driven ecological collapse, I felt like I could relate to the disappearance of our planets’ body, the poison ready to burst just beneath the permafrost of the Earth’s skin, because my own world and family was being destroyed before my very the eyes.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Democracy Charity, Democracy Protests, Election History, Political Artwork

Poetry: From the Earthworm to the Night

by Jess X Chen - March 23, 2015

From the Earthworm

This is a self-published 48 page collection of poems and illustrations that I made 2011-2014. Signed copies of ‘From the Earthworm to the Night’ available

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: China, Colonialism, Democracy Protests, Election History, Feminism, Political Artwork

Marking 50 Years Since Controversial 1965 Immigration Law

by Jess X Chen - March 10, 2015

1965 Immigration Law

Patterning their wings is a motif taken from signs that riddle highways along the US/Mexico Border, signifying the crossing of undocumented immigrants.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Civil Rights Era, Election History, Latino Voting Rights, Mexico, Political Artwork, South America

On Immigration Burdens: A Return to the Wind

by Jess X Chen - February 21, 2015

Immigration burdens wind

Earlier this month, I mailed an original painting and art/activism manifesto for two of my friends that became forever lost in transit through USPS. Thus, I made an online archive of the lost package.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: New York City and State Elections, Political Artwork, South America, Worldwide

Empire Into Forest: Pillars of White Supremacy

by Jess X Chen - February 4, 2015

Three Pillars of White Supremacy

Gouache concept is based on the article, Hetero-patriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy (Rethinking Women of Color Organizing), by Andrea Smith.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: African-Americans and Democracy, Election History, Minority Voting Rights, Political Artwork, Racism and Prejudice

China’s Cultural Revolution: An Ode to My Burning Family

by Jess X Chen - January 29, 2015

Chen China's Cultural Revolution

Familiar red imagery of Cultural Revolution propaganda to create something that speaks more truth to violence rather than the false utopia it represented

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Asia, China, Election History, Political Artwork

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Florida Doesn’t Need a Speech Czar

By Steve Schneider June 28, 2022

Full disclosure: I’m a liberal Democrat. So, I won’t be sending in my vote-by-mail ballot for Ron DeSantis in November. Nor will I vote for him in 2024.

Introducing: When The People Decide

By Jenna Spinelle June 25, 2022

Several activists and average citizens have changed their communities and the country by taking important issues directly to votes.

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Democracy’s Summer Blockbusters

By Jenna Spinelle June 8, 2022

The summer will be legally and politically charged particularly with the January 6 committee hearings scheduled to begin June 9.

Can American Democracy Have Nice Things?

By Jenna Spinelle June 7, 2022

Universal voting would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the active disenfranchisement of a large share of our citizens.

PODCAST: Baby Boomers And American Gerontocracy

By Jenna Spinelle May 23, 2022

Older and younger voters are increasingly at odds: Republicans as a whole skew gray-haired, and within the Democratis, the left-leaning youth vote.

A Dangerous Reprise Of American Exceptionalism In Ukraine

By Jamie Lampidis May 15, 2022

The stakes are too high to cave into Putin’s phantasmatic imperial play, and too high to believe that this war can be won by arming Ukrainians.

On The Coming End Of Roe v. Wade

By Peter J. Dellolio May 11, 2022

Anyone who says that the evolution of law has nothing to do with politics is either very corrupt or very stupid. Laws evolved through the centuries.

Goodbye Roe v. Wade, Goodbye Rule Of Law

By Andrew Straw May 5, 2022

Congress should impeach judges who act like that because it is not good behavior, and they were asked not to act that way when they were confirmed.

PODCAST: Debating The Future Of Debates

By Jenna Spinelle May 4, 2022

We love a good debate — and have certainly had plenty of them on this show. But how effective are they in today’s media and political landscape?

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From Cake To Volunteers, Welcome To Australia’s Democracy Day

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