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Indie Jen Fischer

Safe Place

Reflections for Torture Awareness Month

4 min readJun 22, 2023

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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.

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Indie Jen Fischer

100 Days of Protest and Counting

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

4 min readDec 26, 2022

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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.

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Indie Jen Fischer

KG, Thay & The College Graduation That Changed My Life

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

4 min readJan 31, 2022

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KG, Thay & The College Graduation That Changed My Life

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Indie Jen Fischer

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…

4 min readSep 20, 2021

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Finding Tigray — Highlighting the Current Conflict in Ethiopia

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Indie Jen Fischer

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…

3 min readJul 8, 2021

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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.

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Indie Jen Fischer

The Quintet of Sunset

A Short Film and a Meditation on Time

3 min readJun 8, 2021

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The Quintet of Sunset

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Indie Jen Fischer

Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day

Independent Bookstores To Love

6 min readApr 24, 2021

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Image of books with text overlayed: Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day

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Indie Jen Fischer

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…

4 min readApr 17, 2021

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Indie Jen Fischer

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…

2 min readApr 6, 2021

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

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Indie Jen Fischer

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…

3 min readMar 31, 2021

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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.

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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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