Editor’s Note: Consequence has always been on the lookout for impressive drama that deals with our themes. This is one reason why we are so excited to partner with acclaimed filmmaker David Rocchio, the Founder and Director of Stowe Story Labs. In this excerpt from David’s feature screenplay, we meet
At first, nineteen-year-old Ilia Kashtalianov was not sure why he started painting the walls of his university dorm room in Kyiv. Once he began, he couldn’t stop. The multicolored images appeared as a hallucinatory mash-up of Chagall folk motifs and ghost-like creatures. It didn’t take long before other students heard
Editor’s Note: This publication marks the launch of Consequence Forum’s newest series, the Young Writers & Artists Project. The follow three pieces are in collaboration with Teens in Print (TiP), a writing program directed by Mohamed Barrie that encourages and celebrates the marginalized voices of Boston’s eighth- to twelfth-grade students.
Tasnim News Agency via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED I don’t like my last name. Well, the first part of the hyphenation, the Bernstein. As a child, I thought it lumbering, inelegant. The name comes from a father I haven’t interacted with in decades. It brings to mind schoolyard taunts, many of
A sign for a restaurant at the Del Rio port of entry. Photo: Jenn Budd. Few Americans understand the policies that make up the immigration deterrence operations of the US Border Patrol. These mandates are often confusing and can change drastically from one administration to the next, or even
From left: Harvard president Claudine Gay; Penn’s Liz Magill; Pamela Nadell, a professor of history and Jewishstudies at American University; and Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT. Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images. www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/business/university-leaders-testimony-nightcap/index.html We need to be clear-eyed about the hidden agenda of the grilling of three university presidents in December—Elizabeth
Jan Philip was a Swedish student studying in the US before journeying to Colombia.Image courtesy of Jan Philip’s family. Watering the plants on my sunny Bogotá balcony, the phone rang. It was a delegate from the Colombian commission of the International Committee of the Red Cross. “We have the
November, 1995 | 288th graduation Few Americans understand the policies that make up the immigration deterrence operations of the US Border Patrol. These mandates are often confusing and can change drastically from one administration to the next, or even within a single legislative term. Furthermore, the media surrounding deterrence
Norman Brigade officers and Ukrainian children during a humanitarian aid operation.Norman Brigade, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Introduction Children throughout time have shared the impulse to tell others about their lives. When given the chance, they will draw their feelings, images, and understandings of their world. However inchoate or
The United Nation’s aid convoy to Sare in East Timor Last August, Pope Francis appointed a new Cardinal, Virgilio do Carmo da Silva, from the tiny country of East Timor. East Timor had been a colony of Portugal until it was brutally occupied by Indonesia. I am not Roman Catholic, but
We’ve often been told that the truth is in the details. After all, details are what give shape to an individual life and clarify it amidst a crowd of people, places, and events. When it comes to things we experience in times of war or geopolitical conflict, some of these
abaca, n.1) from the Tagalog abaka via the Spanish abacá (see also Treaty of Paris, 1898) 2) a strong fiber derived from Musa textilis, a plant of the banana family; also “Manila hemp” 3) now mainly used in paper products and traditional Filipino clothing, such as hats, dresses, and barong
