Peace Study 00: Introducing Peace Studies

“PEACE STUDIES” will be a series of articles in which I try to understand peace. Mostly, it will be about brushes with conflict, and about encounters with art. As a nation, the United States has been utterly dependent on the production and export of violence, which has created an explosive ripple effect as that violence…More

Notes: Introducing Cautionary Tales, and What Is The 4th World?

Hi, my name is Wren [CUIDADX] Romero. These are cautionary tales. Caution is literally my middle name. I chose it more than a bit ironically. My mother has a ritual of always telling her loved ones some variation of “be careful,” or “be safe!” and a common way of saying goodbye is the phrase “cuidate,”…More