It’s our 6th anniversary - 6th issue celebration! join us!

The Glendale Community College English Division & Alternative Field present

ABSURDITIES: An Anthology of Student Writing

We are living in a time in which we are told not to trust our intuition, our logic, our instincts. Instead, we should put our faith in people who know better than us. They tell us what not to read, what not to think, what not to do with our own bodies, who not to speak to or of. They tell us change is impossible, that we must live with threats of violence, and the violence, threats of extinctions, and the extinctions, that we must accept our powerlessness. Do not ask questions, do not do the calculations, do not look behind the curtain, do not reach out to your fellow human. We turn away from the casualties of war, from those who bleed and starve in the images on our screens. The world is coming at us fast but also, it seems, sideways, at a slant. So we type up careful stances from the safety of our chairs, wording and rewording sentences, thinking we are somehow changing the world. Maybe it’s time to meet absurdity with absurdity. Absurdity allows for humor—and anger—both of which can lead to action and therefore, hope. For in order to act, we must have hope.

Join us for the reading and launch of Absurdies: An Anthology of Student Writing
Sunday, June 2, at 3pm
Avenue 50 Studio
Los Angeles CA 90042