Victoria Chang

Oct 22, 2024 | mcsweeneys.net | Victoria Chang

Our friends at 270 Reasons are gathering a polyphonic orchestra of brilliant writers, teachers, doctors, filmmakers, artists, and citizens of all kinds to weigh in about their plans to vote this November. These opinion essays run the gamut from advocacy for basic human rights to acutely personal mini-manifestoes. Read the rest over at 270 Reasons. - - -Because She Supports a Ban on Assault WeaponsMy children were six and four years old in 2012, when Sandy Hook occurred.

Jul 25, 2024 | nybooks.com | Victoria Chang

And then underneath the black strip on the canvas isa small light. I used to think the black strip was theactual painting. Now I think it’s what the black stripis covering. The covering is impossible. No matterhow wide the strip is, light shines through. Somevistas just do. Barnett Newman threw most of hispaintings away. Because he thought they weren’tgood enough. Most critics didn’t like his work. Most writers want to be loved by light. The same lightwe try to cover.

Jul 25, 2024 | flipboard.com | Victoria Chang

Will WA move forward or backward? Fate of initiatives will tell | Horsey cartoonIn this supposedly solid blue state where Democrats dominate, it is curious that a new poll shows a plurality of voters are leaning toward supporting …

Jul 17, 2024 | staradvertiser.com | Victoria Chang

Confusion, hopelessness, powerlessness and fear. Young people should never have to experience these emotions, especially at the hands of someone they know and trust. But for survivors of child sex abuse, the experience not only is real, but is too often boxed up, locked up and hushed over a lifetime. Thanks to the 2024 legislative session, Hawaii is taking an important step toward recognizing the unique challenges facing survivors of sex abuse, helping them on the long road to recovery and justice.

Jun 5, 2024 | poems.poetrysociety.org.uk | Victoria Chang

Once they picked a date, I knew something theeucalyptus tree did not. Someone knows when theearth will end. I think that person is a lumberjack. Tobe alive is to accept perception but to use theperceived. To know a tree has no bones but to paintin bones. To know that we aren’t actually writingpoems but our own autopsies. That the earth is acollage of the sky, the leaves, and its own grave. Things stay alive by eluding our perception. Thesame gaze that believes a tree is there for us todraw.