Issue 14: Love in a Crumbling Empire

Issue 14 of the Therapeutic Edgelands invites us to consider protection and care in our local relationships with writings by two Detroit based creators: Maya Davis and Tawana Petty.

Maya’s poem of care across species brings attention to the legacies of those whose bodies and homes have been used (and ravaged) by the empire. Instead Maya lovingly cares for silk worms – inviting them to build their homes and emerge, winged into this beautiful and broken world.

Tawana’s piece Defending Detroit, offers another narrative of protecting our home– she asks us to think critically about the so-called opportunity of technological development of Detroit. She implores us to resist the ever growing surveillance state with its eugenic habits and increasingly automated weapons. Tawana lovingly critiques and pushes back -- and she invites Edgelands readers to do the same.
Our text editor, Owólabi Aboyade expertly orients us in a time between times, and imagery drips off the pages too… As you can see!

This issue also includes imagery of Engineers Against Apartheid, collage work by Tawana Petty, Han Mathers, Owolabi Aboyade and Bridget Quinn and a new Audio Companion Produced by Anna Sysling with additional sounds by Dan Ortiz Leizman, and a bonus poem by Han Mathers.