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Safe Place

Reflections for Torture Awareness Month

Jun 22, 2023

Safe Place movie poster with a long hallway, black walls, and a door at the end of the hallway. Text, centered, reads Safe Place with additional movie credits.

Jun 22, 2023

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100 Days of Protest and Counting

A Conversation with Nora Rahimian about Iranian protests and U.S. misunderstandings

Dec 26, 2022

Painting of a woman. The piece focuses on her face. Various Persian men are curled up on top of her head, dressed in traditional garb. The effect is slightly Medusa-ish. An animal, lamb or goat, is curled up and covering one eye.

Dec 26, 2022

KG, Thay & The College Graduation That Changed My Life

Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace, and Simple Transformative Life Experiences

Jan 31, 2022

KG, Thay & The College Graduation That Changed My Life

Jan 31, 2022

Finding Tigray — Highlighting the Current Conflict in Ethiopia

Ethiopia, on the Northeastern side of Africa, is the second most populated country in Africa. Despite this, Ethiopia receives little…

Sep 20, 2021

Finding Tigray — Highlighting the Current Conflict in Ethiopia

Sep 20, 2021

Music for the First Year

Like many of us during the pandemic, the extra time at home shifted my attention. I found myself sitting down at the piano more and more…

Jul 8, 2021

Photo of a mother and very young son (9 months) at the piano together. Her hair is sandy brown, pulled back, with strands falling across her face and down toward the piano. Her son’s eyes bulge out as he grasps for the instrument. One of her hands holds him. The other touches the keys. Both of the baby’s hands are on the white keys.

Jul 8, 2021

The Quintet of Sunset

A Short Film and a Meditation on Time

Jun 8, 2021

The Quintet of Sunset

Jun 8, 2021

Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day

Independent Bookstores To Love

Apr 24, 2021

Image of books with text overlayed: Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day

Apr 24, 2021

The Feminist Act of Telling a Man’s Story

This story originally appeared on the Btch Flicks site in 2016. The site is no longer active, but I have a soft spot for this piece and…

Apr 17, 2021

Apr 17, 2021

April

Because of April Boscoe doesn’t eat fish And Freddy teaches peace to others, Traveled to Bangui to assist with food relief And once walked…

Apr 6, 2021

Image of the entrance to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, snow blankets the ground

Apr 6, 2021

Creativity: 7 Questions, 1 Year

Recently, the New York Times asked creative people 7 questions about the first year of the pandemic. When I first saw this, I thought…

Mar 31, 2021

Bright abstract art with wide brush strokes and some splatters. Various shades of blue dominate. Some splatters look like purple-silver glitter. There are other colors as well: bright yellow, red, light green, and a few strokes of white around the edges.

Mar 31, 2021

International Women’s Day 2021

Choose to Challenge — Celebrate & Take Action

Mar 8, 2021

International Women’s Day 2021

Mar 8, 2021

Book Tower

In Praise of Books for World Book Day

Mar 4, 2021

Book Tower

Mar 4, 2021

One Night in Kibuye

Loss and Life Boats

Mar 1, 2021

An image of a lake at dusk with a green island forest visible in the distance.

Mar 1, 2021

Coffee and A Bathtub

Parenting in a Pandemic

Feb 17, 2021

Coffee and A Bathtub

Feb 17, 2021

Under Siege

On January 6th in the U.S., the capitol building was under siege. Elected officials crouched in hiding places, silent; doors barricaded…

Feb 5, 2021

We will not give up. The hope that beams from our hearts is bright enough to see through this pitch dark.

Feb 5, 2021

in this lies the truth of your values

Recently, I read Loving vs. Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell about Mildred and Richard Loving, a Virginia couple whose marriage was legal…

Jan 19, 2021

Jan 19, 2021

The Buddhas Are Gone

The altar is bare. One small mandarin orange, a jar of dried sage, a single crystal — that is all that remains.

Jan 10, 2021

The Buddhas Are Gone

Jan 10, 2021

Releasing the Light

December 21st, the shortest day of the year, the darkest. On this day, I wake and find myself leaning in — cloaking myself in this…

Dec 21, 2020

Releasing the Light

Dec 21, 2020

9 Months

Pandemic Poems

Dec 14, 2020

9 Months

Dec 14, 2020

Cambodia — The Failure of Never Again

World Genocide Commemoration Day

Dec 9, 2020

Cambodia — The Failure of Never Again

Dec 9, 2020

Indie Jen Fischer

Indie Jen Fischer

Co-Founder, Think Ten Media Group. Mom. Coffee Lover. Currently writing #TheLeeches (novel series) and researching education in post-genocide societies

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