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Full of sadness and rage, this timely narrative cuts to the heart of the gun debate and school shootings with a scalpel of words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lilith\u003c/em> forces readers to look at one of the ugliest parts of U.S. culture, a too-common occurrence that is extremely rare in other countries. This is novel that acts like mirror; it shows you society with love and great insight into what makes us tick, but also with brutal honesty and under a stark, unwavering light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13955156']Elisabeth Ross is a single mother and teacher raising her son Lydan by herself. One morning. Lydan wakes up with an “icky” feeling about the day and begs Elisabeth to stay home. But working mothers rarely take a day off, so even though she wants to stay at home and spend the day with her beloved boy, she takes him to school and gets to work. That day, a man breaks into the school with a powerful rifle and kills a lot of people, mostly kids. 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Elisabeth morphs into a persona she names Lilith, the first wife of the biblical Adam, a woman who refused to serve a man. Elisabeth, well, plans revenge and then must face the consequences of her actions. Is she a hurt, loving mother doing the right thing or no better than the man who shot up the school? The answers to the questions her actions raise aren’t easy, and they make the core of \u003cem>Lilith\u003c/em> a truly emotional conundrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reading \u003cem>Lilith \u003c/em>is an endurance exercise. Lydan’s destroyed body and psyche, the unreasonableness of Elisabeth’s bosses, and the growing pain and anxiety add up to a powerful novel you can’t look away from, but that hurts you with every page. Rickstad, with impeccable pacing and economy of language, delves deep into the gun culture that uses every school shooting as an excuse to celebrate guns and sell more guns. Also, he gets to the core of how misogyny is part of not only that culture but also of everything Elisabeth has ever experienced. As Elisabeth develops her plan and becomes Lilith, the unkindness and abuse history has shown women become something that’s always present, and the men who insist on perpetuating that become something she wants to fight against: “They shape the world through violence and conquest, pillaging and rape and genocide, oppression and control; they use their own language to mold a world that’s male dominant, male centric, male first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13953754']Perhaps the most powerful thing Rickstad accomplishes here is that he never spells out any answers while constantly presenting the right questions. Yes, we know school shootings are awful and this country’s obsession with guns — and the push by some to completely deregulate them — is unhealthy and dangerous, but the anger we feel and the violence we wish upon those who don’t seem to care about dead children is no better. The person who shot up the school doesn’t matter here; he is a symptom of a much larger disease. Elisabeth and Lydan matter. They are the heart of this narrative, and that serves as a reminder that the discourse exists, but that the people behind it, those who suffer and die as well as those whose lives change as they become caretakers, are more important than any political discussion. This is a brave, timely novel that goes straight to the damaged soul of this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gabino Iglesias is an author, book reviewer and professor living in Austin, Texas. 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To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Lilith%27+cuts+to+the+heart+of+the+gun+debate+and+school+shootings+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Eric Rickstad’s novel is full of sadness and rage; it forces readers to look at one of the ugliest parts of U.S. culture.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712080820,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":824},"headData":{"title":"Book Review: ‘Lilith‘ by Eric Rickstad Holds a Mirror Up to America | KQED","description":"Eric Rickstad’s novel is full of sadness and rage; it forces readers to look at one of the ugliest parts of U.S. culture.","ogTitle":"‘Lilith’ Cuts to the Heart of the Gun Debate and School Shootings","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"‘Lilith’ Cuts to the Heart of the Gun Debate and School Shootings","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Book Review: ‘Lilith‘ by Eric Rickstad Holds a Mirror Up to America %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"‘Lilith’ Cuts to the Heart of the Gun Debate and School Shootings","datePublished":"2024-04-02T18:00:20.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-02T18:00:20.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Gabino Iglesias","nprImageAgency":"Blackstone Publishing","nprStoryId":"1242116577","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1242116577&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/02/1242116577/eric-rickstad-lilith-on-guns-and-school-shootings-book-review?ft=nprml&f=1242116577","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:02:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:02:36 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:02:36 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13955214/lilith-cuts-to-the-heart-of-the-gun-debate-and-school-shootings","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 935px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955215\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/lilith_custom-c4c048b478e4e0f709de7c4b36ca2fde4064e5a1.jpg\" alt=\"A book cover that has a cover that is half white, half black, split vertically down the center.\" width=\"935\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/lilith_custom-c4c048b478e4e0f709de7c4b36ca2fde4064e5a1.jpg 935w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/lilith_custom-c4c048b478e4e0f709de7c4b36ca2fde4064e5a1-800x1283.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/lilith_custom-c4c048b478e4e0f709de7c4b36ca2fde4064e5a1-160x257.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/lilith_custom-c4c048b478e4e0f709de7c4b36ca2fde4064e5a1-768x1232.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 935px) 100vw, 935px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Lilith’ by Eric Rickstad. \u003ccite>(Blackstone Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eric Rickstad’s \u003cem>Lilith \u003c/em>is one of the most uncomfortable novels you’ll read this year. Full of sadness and rage, this timely narrative cuts to the heart of the gun debate and school shootings with a scalpel of words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lilith\u003c/em> forces readers to look at one of the ugliest parts of U.S. culture, a too-common occurrence that is extremely rare in other countries. This is novel that acts like mirror; it shows you society with love and great insight into what makes us tick, but also with brutal honesty and under a stark, unwavering light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13955156","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Elisabeth Ross is a single mother and teacher raising her son Lydan by herself. One morning. Lydan wakes up with an “icky” feeling about the day and begs Elisabeth to stay home. But working mothers rarely take a day off, so even though she wants to stay at home and spend the day with her beloved boy, she takes him to school and gets to work. That day, a man breaks into the school with a powerful rifle and kills a lot of people, mostly kids. Elisabeth breaks the rules and manages to get some of her kids out and then goes back in to rescue Lydan, who suffers devastating injuries that leave him almost dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath of the traumatic event, Lydan is a shadow of his former self. He becomes strangely haunted in many ways, often talking about dark things and saying he’s already dead. After leaving the hospital, the boy spends his days limping around the house with injuries that will change his life forever, taking pain meds to get through the day, and dealing with PTSD. Meanwhile, Elisabeth must deal with bosses that want to fire her for breaking the rules — and with the simmering rage that’s threatening to boil her alive. The system is broken. Evil men make money from every tragedy. Elisabeth needs her insurance more than ever and her bosses want to give her a six-month suspension without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then something clicks. Someone must do something, and she’s the perfect person to do it. Elisabeth morphs into a persona she names Lilith, the first wife of the biblical Adam, a woman who refused to serve a man. Elisabeth, well, plans revenge and then must face the consequences of her actions. Is she a hurt, loving mother doing the right thing or no better than the man who shot up the school? The answers to the questions her actions raise aren’t easy, and they make the core of \u003cem>Lilith\u003c/em> a truly emotional conundrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reading \u003cem>Lilith \u003c/em>is an endurance exercise. Lydan’s destroyed body and psyche, the unreasonableness of Elisabeth’s bosses, and the growing pain and anxiety add up to a powerful novel you can’t look away from, but that hurts you with every page. Rickstad, with impeccable pacing and economy of language, delves deep into the gun culture that uses every school shooting as an excuse to celebrate guns and sell more guns. Also, he gets to the core of how misogyny is part of not only that culture but also of everything Elisabeth has ever experienced. As Elisabeth develops her plan and becomes Lilith, the unkindness and abuse history has shown women become something that’s always present, and the men who insist on perpetuating that become something she wants to fight against: “They shape the world through violence and conquest, pillaging and rape and genocide, oppression and control; they use their own language to mold a world that’s male dominant, male centric, male first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13953754","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Perhaps the most powerful thing Rickstad accomplishes here is that he never spells out any answers while constantly presenting the right questions. Yes, we know school shootings are awful and this country’s obsession with guns — and the push by some to completely deregulate them — is unhealthy and dangerous, but the anger we feel and the violence we wish upon those who don’t seem to care about dead children is no better. The person who shot up the school doesn’t matter here; he is a symptom of a much larger disease. Elisabeth and Lydan matter. They are the heart of this narrative, and that serves as a reminder that the discourse exists, but that the people behind it, those who suffer and die as well as those whose lives change as they become caretakers, are more important than any political discussion. This is a brave, timely novel that goes straight to the damaged soul of this country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gabino Iglesias is an author, book reviewer and professor living in Austin, Texas. Find him on X, formerly Twitter, at\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Gabino_Iglesias\">@Gabino_Iglesias\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Lilith%27+cuts+to+the+heart+of+the+gun+debate+and+school+shootings+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13955214/lilith-cuts-to-the-heart-of-the-gun-debate-and-school-shootings","authors":["byline_arts_13955214"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_3080","arts_769","arts_585"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13955220","label":"arts_140"},"arts_13915217":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13915217","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13915217","score":null,"sort":[1656102663000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"gabby-giffords-documentary-arrives-as-gun-debates-stay-center-stage","title":"Gabby Giffords Documentary Arrives as Gun Debates Stay Center Stage","publishDate":1656102663,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Gabby Giffords Documentary Arrives as Gun Debates Stay Center Stage | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>In the two years documentary filmmakers shadowed former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, the most jarring moment for them was in the kitchen of her Tucson, Arizona, home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As cameras were rolling, she and her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly, nonchalantly opened the freezer. Kelly grabbed a plastic container and revealed it holds the piece of Giffords’ skull that had to be removed after she was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This stays in here next to the empanadas and the sliced mango,” Kelly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giffords’ response was “Sera, sera,” referencing the song “Que sera, sera” or “What will be, will be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scene from the film is emblematic of Giffords’ openness to reflect on but not languish in the 2011 shooting that changed her life. That desire is what led her to allow cameras into her life for two years—all as a pandemic was progressing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me it has been really important to move ahead, to not look back,” Giffords told the Associated Press while in Los Angeles to promote the film. “I hope others are inspired to keep moving forward no matter what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the filmmakers behind Academy Award-nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary \u003cem>RBG\u003c/em>, the film \u003cem>Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down\u003c/em> is partly an intimate look at Giffords’ recovery after the January 2011 shooting that left six people dead and 13 others wounded outside a Tucson supermarket. But the movie, which arrives in theaters July 15, is also an insider view of how she and Kelly navigated gun control campaigns and later a Senate campaign. The movie could not be any timelier with gun reform being debated in government, schools and the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FhlFKwE45Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a fascinating story about how Gabby came back from an injury that so many people just don’t even survive,” said Betsy West, a co-director. “After meeting Gabby on Zoom, we saw just what a great communicator she is. And we had a sense that we might have a lot of fun despite the very difficult subject of gun violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, they wanted to strike the right balance of how much to look back at the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We certainly didn’t want to shy away from Jan. 8. Obviously, that’s something that changed her life,” said Julie Cohen, the film’s other director. “But Gabby is defined ultimately by everything that she’s achieved before and after that. We wanted it to show that achievement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film also doesn’t avoid discussing Jared Lee Loughner, the gunman in the Tucson shooting. Interviews with law enforcement, journalists and a video made by Loughner lay out how he was able to buy a semiautomatic weapon despite a history of mental illness. He was sentenced in 2012 to life in federal prison without parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not want to dwell on the shooter but we also wanted to explain what had happened,” West said. “Gabby and Mark did not shy away from going to the sentencing hearing to make a very impassioned plea for life imprisonment. That was a very important part of the film.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13886669,arts_13914548,pop_105305']Recent mass shootings including the deaths of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, and 10 supermarket shoppers—all Black—in Buffalo, New York, have put gun violence back at the forefront. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1102995474/supreme-court-opinion-guns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">struck down a New York gun permitting law\u003c/a>. The case involves a state law that makes it difficult for people to get a permit to carry a gun outside the home. The justices said that requirement violates the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Thursday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1107234183/senate-passes-gun-control-bill-and-sends-it-to-the-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Senate easily passed a bipartisan gun violence bill\u003c/a>. Weeks of closed-door talks resulted in an incremental but landmark package in response to mass shootings. The House will vote Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much like after Uvalde, the documentary recaps how gun control debates reached a fever pitch after 26 children and two teachers were shot to death by a gunman at a Newtown, Connecticut, school. Giffords and other advocates, including some Newtown parents, were called “props” by National Rifle Association officials. Having spent time with Giffords and others impacted by gun violence, the film’s directors say their voices are central to the discourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that somehow Gabby shouldn’t be speaking about gun violence because she’s experienced violence? It just doesn’t make any sense,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crucial element of the documentary came from videos Kelly had of Giffords in the Tucson hospital and at a rehab facility in Houston. These included then-President Barack Obama—who is interviewed in the film—and Michelle Obama’s visit to an unconscious Giffords’ bedside. They also include the first few months of speech therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bullet penetrated the left hemisphere of Giffords’ brain that services language ability, causing her to suffer from aphasia. You see in old videos Giffords sob out of frustration as she struggles to read and get stuck on saying “chicken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giffords said watching those videos can make her sad, but she is determined to be upbeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m getting better. I’m getting (better) slowly but I’m getting (better) surely,” Giffords said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Giffords\u003c/em> is the third movie West and Cohen have produced on a female icon. Last year, they released \u003cem>Julia\u003c/em>, a documentary on the influence of TV chef and author Julia Child. \u003cem>RBG\u003c/em> was a critical and commercial hit when it came out four years ago. The filmmakers say while Giffords and Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg, who died in 2020 at age 87, are very different personalities, they think viewers will see a lot of similarities. They both have toughness, persistence, optimism and are at the heart of “feminist love stories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13915223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-24-at-12.40.34-PM-800x403.png\" alt=\"Gabby Giffords stands behind a podium, gesturing theatrically to the audience. She is standing in front of a huge American flag.\" width=\"800\" height=\"403\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabby Giffords on the campaign trail for her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly. \u003ccite>('Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down')\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Giffords often has to remind people that she still has a voice even if speaking doesn’t come easily—whether it’s on gun safety or other issues. She said she genuinely feels the climate is different now but people have to be patient because change is “slow,” and Washington, D.C., is “really slow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She plans to refocus on making tougher federal background checks a reality through her \u003ca href=\"https://giffords.org/action/gun-owners-for-safety/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gun Owners for Safety\u003c/a> coalition. The bill the Senate approved would only strengthen background checks for buyers age 18 to 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there’s one message she wants viewers to take from the documentary, it’s “fight, fight, fight every day,” Giffords said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Gabby+Giffords+documentary+comes+as+gun+debates+stay+on+center+stage&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The film captures the former Arizona congresswoman in recovery from her 2011 shooting, and her subsequent gun control campaigns.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006688,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1181},"headData":{"title":"Gabby Giffords Documentary Arrives as Gun Debates Stay Center Stage | KQED","description":"The film captures the former Arizona congresswoman in recovery from her 2011 shooting, and her subsequent gun control campaigns.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Gabby Giffords Documentary Arrives as Gun Debates Stay Center Stage","datePublished":"2022-06-24T20:31:03.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:58:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"The Associated Press","nprStoryId":"1107238216","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1107238216&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1107238216/gabby-giffords-documentary-comes-as-gun-debates-stay-center-stage?ft=nprml&f=1107238216","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 24 Jun 2022 06:05:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 24 Jun 2022 01:11:47 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 24 Jun 2022 06:05:14 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/arts/13915217/gabby-giffords-documentary-arrives-as-gun-debates-stay-center-stage","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the two years documentary filmmakers shadowed former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, the most jarring moment for them was in the kitchen of her Tucson, Arizona, home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As cameras were rolling, she and her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly, nonchalantly opened the freezer. Kelly grabbed a plastic container and revealed it holds the piece of Giffords’ skull that had to be removed after she was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This stays in here next to the empanadas and the sliced mango,” Kelly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giffords’ response was “Sera, sera,” referencing the song “Que sera, sera” or “What will be, will be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scene from the film is emblematic of Giffords’ openness to reflect on but not languish in the 2011 shooting that changed her life. That desire is what led her to allow cameras into her life for two years—all as a pandemic was progressing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me it has been really important to move ahead, to not look back,” Giffords told the Associated Press while in Los Angeles to promote the film. “I hope others are inspired to keep moving forward no matter what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the filmmakers behind Academy Award-nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary \u003cem>RBG\u003c/em>, the film \u003cem>Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down\u003c/em> is partly an intimate look at Giffords’ recovery after the January 2011 shooting that left six people dead and 13 others wounded outside a Tucson supermarket. But the movie, which arrives in theaters July 15, is also an insider view of how she and Kelly navigated gun control campaigns and later a Senate campaign. The movie could not be any timelier with gun reform being debated in government, schools and the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/9FhlFKwE45Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/9FhlFKwE45Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“It’s just a fascinating story about how Gabby came back from an injury that so many people just don’t even survive,” said Betsy West, a co-director. “After meeting Gabby on Zoom, we saw just what a great communicator she is. And we had a sense that we might have a lot of fun despite the very difficult subject of gun violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, they wanted to strike the right balance of how much to look back at the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We certainly didn’t want to shy away from Jan. 8. Obviously, that’s something that changed her life,” said Julie Cohen, the film’s other director. “But Gabby is defined ultimately by everything that she’s achieved before and after that. We wanted it to show that achievement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film also doesn’t avoid discussing Jared Lee Loughner, the gunman in the Tucson shooting. Interviews with law enforcement, journalists and a video made by Loughner lay out how he was able to buy a semiautomatic weapon despite a history of mental illness. He was sentenced in 2012 to life in federal prison without parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not want to dwell on the shooter but we also wanted to explain what had happened,” West said. “Gabby and Mark did not shy away from going to the sentencing hearing to make a very impassioned plea for life imprisonment. That was a very important part of the film.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13886669,arts_13914548,pop_105305","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Recent mass shootings including the deaths of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, and 10 supermarket shoppers—all Black—in Buffalo, New York, have put gun violence back at the forefront. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1102995474/supreme-court-opinion-guns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">struck down a New York gun permitting law\u003c/a>. The case involves a state law that makes it difficult for people to get a permit to carry a gun outside the home. The justices said that requirement violates the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Thursday, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1107234183/senate-passes-gun-control-bill-and-sends-it-to-the-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Senate easily passed a bipartisan gun violence bill\u003c/a>. Weeks of closed-door talks resulted in an incremental but landmark package in response to mass shootings. The House will vote Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much like after Uvalde, the documentary recaps how gun control debates reached a fever pitch after 26 children and two teachers were shot to death by a gunman at a Newtown, Connecticut, school. Giffords and other advocates, including some Newtown parents, were called “props” by National Rifle Association officials. Having spent time with Giffords and others impacted by gun violence, the film’s directors say their voices are central to the discourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that somehow Gabby shouldn’t be speaking about gun violence because she’s experienced violence? It just doesn’t make any sense,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crucial element of the documentary came from videos Kelly had of Giffords in the Tucson hospital and at a rehab facility in Houston. These included then-President Barack Obama—who is interviewed in the film—and Michelle Obama’s visit to an unconscious Giffords’ bedside. They also include the first few months of speech therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bullet penetrated the left hemisphere of Giffords’ brain that services language ability, causing her to suffer from aphasia. You see in old videos Giffords sob out of frustration as she struggles to read and get stuck on saying “chicken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giffords said watching those videos can make her sad, but she is determined to be upbeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m getting better. I’m getting (better) slowly but I’m getting (better) surely,” Giffords said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Giffords\u003c/em> is the third movie West and Cohen have produced on a female icon. Last year, they released \u003cem>Julia\u003c/em>, a documentary on the influence of TV chef and author Julia Child. \u003cem>RBG\u003c/em> was a critical and commercial hit when it came out four years ago. The filmmakers say while Giffords and Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg, who died in 2020 at age 87, are very different personalities, they think viewers will see a lot of similarities. They both have toughness, persistence, optimism and are at the heart of “feminist love stories.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13915223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13915223\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-24-at-12.40.34-PM-800x403.png\" alt=\"Gabby Giffords stands behind a podium, gesturing theatrically to the audience. She is standing in front of a huge American flag.\" width=\"800\" height=\"403\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabby Giffords on the campaign trail for her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly. \u003ccite>('Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down')\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Giffords often has to remind people that she still has a voice even if speaking doesn’t come easily—whether it’s on gun safety or other issues. She said she genuinely feels the climate is different now but people have to be patient because change is “slow,” and Washington, D.C., is “really slow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She plans to refocus on making tougher federal background checks a reality through her \u003ca href=\"https://giffords.org/action/gun-owners-for-safety/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gun Owners for Safety\u003c/a> coalition. The bill the Senate approved would only strengthen background checks for buyers age 18 to 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there’s one message she wants viewers to take from the documentary, it’s “fight, fight, fight every day,” Giffords said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Gabby+Giffords+documentary+comes+as+gun+debates+stay+on+center+stage&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13915217/gabby-giffords-documentary-arrives-as-gun-debates-stay-center-stage","authors":["byline_arts_13915217"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74"],"tags":["arts_13672","arts_3080"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13915222","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13914548":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13914548","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13914548","score":null,"sort":[1654709158000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"5-books-that-try-to-help-explain-the-unexplainable-the-u-s-gun-violence-epidemic","title":"5 Books That Try to Explain the Unexplainable: the U.S. Gun Violence Epidemic","publishDate":1654709158,"format":"standard","headTitle":"5 Books That Try to Explain the Unexplainable: the U.S. Gun Violence Epidemic | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>As of May 31, there have already been \u003ca href=\"https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">233 mass shootings in 2022\u003c/a>, according to the Gun Violence Archive, an independent organization that collects data from over 7,500 sources. That includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1101183663/uvalde-elementary-school-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the massacre at Robb Elementary School\u003c/a> in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children and two adults and injured many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13913932']More than 45,000 people in the U.S. were killed by guns in 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D76;jsessionid=EE19ACC48655F2DC04EA2EC2EBE3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Centers for Disease Control reported recently\u003c/a>. That year, firearms became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2022/05/26/gun-deaths-children-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leading cause of death\u003c/a> for American children. On average, gun violence kills nine children every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these statistics are startling, they can dull the senses, at the same time that solutions seem increasingly hard to come by. Here are five books that help us go beyond the numbers: telling the stories of victims of American gun violence, and explaining how we got here and how we might get out.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Another Day in the Death Of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives\u003c/em> by Gary Younge\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914551\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/anotherday_custom-1d16347a02f410ce0446d50200655534ae5fee94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/anotherday_custom-1d16347a02f410ce0446d50200655534ae5fee94.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/anotherday_custom-1d16347a02f410ce0446d50200655534ae5fee94-160x243.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives’ By Gary Younge. \u003ccite>(PublicAffairs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tyler, 11, loved catching fish in the creek behind his house . He was accidentally shot by his best friend during a sleepover. Gary Anderson was an 18-year-old who loved to fix things—especially bikes. He was killed while walking to his mother’s apartment, in what his father says was a case of mistaken identity. The baseball coaches for his team all called 9-year-old Jaiden “Smiley.” He was murdered by his mom’s ex-boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Another Day in the Death of America \u003c/em>documents the lives and deaths of 10 boys—ages 9 to 19—killed by guns over the course of a single day: Nov. 23, 2013. The randomly chosen date reflects \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrensdefense.org/state-of-americas-children/soac-2021-gun-violence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">troubling statistics\u003c/a> of American life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these children aren’t just data points. With meticulous research, interviews with family members, and reports of gun violence around the country, Younge pieces together devastating memorials for each of the victims as he explains the circumstances that lead to their deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter \u003c/em>by Seamus McGraw\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 1966, after murdering his wife and his mother, a student climbed a tower at the University of Texas and began firing. In the end, he killed 17 people. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history. Now, it’s the 10th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From a Taller Tower \u003c/em>traces the history of the American mass shooter—at Columbine, Sandy Hook, Parkland—without giving in to the notoriety that so many of them seek. With few exceptions, the murderers are never named. Instead, the book examines the beliefs many Americans hold onto about guns, mass shootings and mental illness, and confronts the circumstances that allow these catastrophes to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement\u003c/em> by The March for Our Lives Founders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914553\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/glimmer_custom-962ac66f1f1df12351ffd8e6e17378ae9ad7dc93.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/glimmer_custom-962ac66f1f1df12351ffd8e6e17378ae9ad7dc93.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/glimmer_custom-962ac66f1f1df12351ffd8e6e17378ae9ad7dc93-160x243.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement’ By The March for Our Lives Founders. \u003ccite>(Penguin Young Readers Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the wake of one of the United States’ deadliest school shootings, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., organized. Now, the March for Our Lives movement and nonprofit are working to end gun violence through civic engagement, education and direct action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This anthology chronicles the stories of 25 student founders through poetry, personal essays, conversations and excerpts from speeches. It details the fear they felt on Feb. 14, 2018, the countless hours required to make a movement successful, and the trauma that continues to impact survivors long after the news cameras have moved on. While it can be easy to forget how young these activists are, this look into their extraordinary work is also a reminder that they should never have needed to take on this work in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All net proceeds from the book go to the March For Our Lives Action Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA\u003c/em> by Tim Mak\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With confidential files, depositions and over 100 interviews with NRA staff and associates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051363337/misfire-takes-a-hard-look-at-nepotism-fraud-and-corruption-in-the-nra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR investigative correspondent Tim Mak\u003c/a> chronicles the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/01/1050432834/misfire-is-a-scathing-look-at-nepotism-fraud-and-corruption-in-the-nra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incompetence, corruption and wanton embezzlement\u003c/a> that has marked Wayne LaPierre’s (continued) oversight of the organization, and outlines how the NRA went from teaching marksmanship to sabotaging bipartisan legislation supporting background checks after the Sandy Hook massacre.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Stand Your Ground: A History Of America’s Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense\u003c/em> by Caroline Light\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914555\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/ground_custom-a401cce9a9c59317dd6396ef6d9c0cde50df7671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/ground_custom-a401cce9a9c59317dd6396ef6d9c0cde50df7671.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/ground_custom-a401cce9a9c59317dd6396ef6d9c0cde50df7671-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense’ By Caroline Light. \u003ccite>(Beacon Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With keen legal analysis, Caroline Light examines the history of violence rooted in stand-your-ground laws and the ideology of “DIY-security” citizenship in the United States from the 17th century to today. Despite the theoretical right of any American to stand their ground, Light argues that, in practice, these laws are rooted in the need to protect white men’s honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking at influential court cases and crucial moments in America’s history, she shows how, time and time again, these laws fail to protect women, the poor, gender-nonconforming people and racial minority groups—and frequently targets them when they do try and stand their ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sobering read, Light illuminates how America’s debates about gun control are deeply rooted in the inequality that has marked our country’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=5+books+that+try+to+help+explain+the+unexplainable%3A+the+U.S.+gun+violence+epidemic&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"These books help put a face to victims of American gun violence and explain how we got here—and how we might get out.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006753,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":934},"headData":{"title":"5 Books That Try to Explain the Unexplainable: the U.S. Gun Violence Epidemic | KQED","description":"These books help put a face to victims of American gun violence and explain how we got here—and how we might get out.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"5 Books That Try to Explain the Unexplainable: the U.S. Gun Violence Epidemic","datePublished":"2022-06-08T17:25:58.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:59:13.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Fi O'Reilly","nprImageAgency":"Various","nprStoryId":"1101494064","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1101494064&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1101494064/5-books-that-try-to-help-explain-the-unexplainable-the-u-s-gun-violence-epidemic?ft=nprml&f=1101494064","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 02 Jun 2022 12:49:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 02 Jun 2022 12:49:18 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 02 Jun 2022 12:49:47 -0400","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/arts/13914548/5-books-that-try-to-help-explain-the-unexplainable-the-u-s-gun-violence-epidemic","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As of May 31, there have already been \u003ca href=\"https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">233 mass shootings in 2022\u003c/a>, according to the Gun Violence Archive, an independent organization that collects data from over 7,500 sources. That includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1101183663/uvalde-elementary-school-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the massacre at Robb Elementary School\u003c/a> in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children and two adults and injured many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13913932","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>More than 45,000 people in the U.S. were killed by guns in 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D76;jsessionid=EE19ACC48655F2DC04EA2EC2EBE3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Centers for Disease Control reported recently\u003c/a>. That year, firearms became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2022/05/26/gun-deaths-children-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leading cause of death\u003c/a> for American children. On average, gun violence kills nine children every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While these statistics are startling, they can dull the senses, at the same time that solutions seem increasingly hard to come by. Here are five books that help us go beyond the numbers: telling the stories of victims of American gun violence, and explaining how we got here and how we might get out.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Another Day in the Death Of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives\u003c/em> by Gary Younge\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914551\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/anotherday_custom-1d16347a02f410ce0446d50200655534ae5fee94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/anotherday_custom-1d16347a02f410ce0446d50200655534ae5fee94.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/anotherday_custom-1d16347a02f410ce0446d50200655534ae5fee94-160x243.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives’ By Gary Younge. \u003ccite>(PublicAffairs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tyler, 11, loved catching fish in the creek behind his house . He was accidentally shot by his best friend during a sleepover. Gary Anderson was an 18-year-old who loved to fix things—especially bikes. He was killed while walking to his mother’s apartment, in what his father says was a case of mistaken identity. The baseball coaches for his team all called 9-year-old Jaiden “Smiley.” He was murdered by his mom’s ex-boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Another Day in the Death of America \u003c/em>documents the lives and deaths of 10 boys—ages 9 to 19—killed by guns over the course of a single day: Nov. 23, 2013. The randomly chosen date reflects \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrensdefense.org/state-of-americas-children/soac-2021-gun-violence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">troubling statistics\u003c/a> of American life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these children aren’t just data points. With meticulous research, interviews with family members, and reports of gun violence around the country, Younge pieces together devastating memorials for each of the victims as he explains the circumstances that lead to their deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter \u003c/em>by Seamus McGraw\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 1966, after murdering his wife and his mother, a student climbed a tower at the University of Texas and began firing. In the end, he killed 17 people. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history. Now, it’s the 10th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>From a Taller Tower \u003c/em>traces the history of the American mass shooter—at Columbine, Sandy Hook, Parkland—without giving in to the notoriety that so many of them seek. With few exceptions, the murderers are never named. Instead, the book examines the beliefs many Americans hold onto about guns, mass shootings and mental illness, and confronts the circumstances that allow these catastrophes to continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement\u003c/em> by The March for Our Lives Founders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914553\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/glimmer_custom-962ac66f1f1df12351ffd8e6e17378ae9ad7dc93.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/glimmer_custom-962ac66f1f1df12351ffd8e6e17378ae9ad7dc93.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/glimmer_custom-962ac66f1f1df12351ffd8e6e17378ae9ad7dc93-160x243.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Glimmer of Hope: How Tragedy Sparked a Movement’ By The March for Our Lives Founders. \u003ccite>(Penguin Young Readers Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the wake of one of the United States’ deadliest school shootings, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., organized. Now, the March for Our Lives movement and nonprofit are working to end gun violence through civic engagement, education and direct action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This anthology chronicles the stories of 25 student founders through poetry, personal essays, conversations and excerpts from speeches. It details the fear they felt on Feb. 14, 2018, the countless hours required to make a movement successful, and the trauma that continues to impact survivors long after the news cameras have moved on. While it can be easy to forget how young these activists are, this look into their extraordinary work is also a reminder that they should never have needed to take on this work in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All net proceeds from the book go to the March For Our Lives Action Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA\u003c/em> by Tim Mak\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With confidential files, depositions and over 100 interviews with NRA staff and associates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051363337/misfire-takes-a-hard-look-at-nepotism-fraud-and-corruption-in-the-nra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR investigative correspondent Tim Mak\u003c/a> chronicles the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/11/01/1050432834/misfire-is-a-scathing-look-at-nepotism-fraud-and-corruption-in-the-nra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incompetence, corruption and wanton embezzlement\u003c/a> that has marked Wayne LaPierre’s (continued) oversight of the organization, and outlines how the NRA went from teaching marksmanship to sabotaging bipartisan legislation supporting background checks after the Sandy Hook massacre.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cem>Stand Your Ground: A History Of America’s Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense\u003c/em> by Caroline Light\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914555\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13914555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/ground_custom-a401cce9a9c59317dd6396ef6d9c0cde50df7671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/ground_custom-a401cce9a9c59317dd6396ef6d9c0cde50df7671.jpg 200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/ground_custom-a401cce9a9c59317dd6396ef6d9c0cde50df7671-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense’ By Caroline Light. \u003ccite>(Beacon Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With keen legal analysis, Caroline Light examines the history of violence rooted in stand-your-ground laws and the ideology of “DIY-security” citizenship in the United States from the 17th century to today. Despite the theoretical right of any American to stand their ground, Light argues that, in practice, these laws are rooted in the need to protect white men’s honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking at influential court cases and crucial moments in America’s history, she shows how, time and time again, these laws fail to protect women, the poor, gender-nonconforming people and racial minority groups—and frequently targets them when they do try and stand their ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sobering read, Light illuminates how America’s debates about gun control are deeply rooted in the inequality that has marked our country’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=5+books+that+try+to+help+explain+the+unexplainable%3A+the+U.S.+gun+violence+epidemic&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13914548/5-books-that-try-to-help-explain-the-unexplainable-the-u-s-gun-violence-epidemic","authors":["byline_arts_13914548"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73"],"tags":["arts_3080","arts_3081"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13914550","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13914176":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13914176","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13914176","score":null,"sort":[1654028598000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-imaginists-someone-dies-again-review","title":"In the Imaginists' 'Someone Dies Again,' the Pain of Gun Violence is Ever-Present","publishDate":1654028598,"format":"standard","headTitle":"In the Imaginists’ ‘Someone Dies Again,’ the Pain of Gun Violence is Ever-Present | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>It was 2019 when I \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatrebayarea.org/news/435111/Keep-An-Eye-On-The-Imaginists-Find-Success-in-Embracing-the-Unknown.htm\">first covered the Imaginists’ artistic collaboration with Hungarian director Árpád Schilling\u003c/a>—a then-unwritten work examining American gun violence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot has changed since that different, pre-COVID time. Yet as I write this review, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889325/country-grieves-for-victims-and-survivors-of-uvalde-texas-school-massacre\">in the wake of yet another mass shooting of schoolchildren\u003c/a>, the topic is as painfully timely as when the Imaginists first conceived the production. The theater company first invited Schilling to Santa Rosa in 2015, whereupon the internationally acclaimed director learned about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/116116/sonomy-county-sheriff-who-shot-andy-lopez-identified\">fatal shooting of 13-year-old Andy Lopez by a Sheriff’s deputy\u003c/a>—a devastating moment for Santa Rosa, where the Imaginists have created theater for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914180\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"To women sit on a couch facing each other, a man watches them from a table set on the other side of the stage\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gena (Amy Pinto, left) and Maddy (Emma Atwood) struggle to understand each other’s points of view in the Imaginists’ ‘Someone Dies Again.’ \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Schilling and [his partner] Lilla Sárosdi were absolutely horrified that the police would actually use their guns against citizens,” Imaginists co-founder Amy Pinto told me in 2019. Known for co-creating generative work with a social justice component, Schilling understood that, as a European, his “outsider” approach to this quintessentially American topic would be artistically fertile and potentially revelatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resultant production is \u003cem>Someone Dies Again\u003c/em>, which, after nearly two years of pandemic-related delays, premiered May 20 at Z Space in San Francisco, and opens a Santa Rosa run on Thursday, June 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Someone Dies Again\u003c/em> simmers with the effects of one real-life catastrophe after another—but after setbacks, public health crises and heartbreaks, it emerges from the wreckage filled with purpose. The production examines our fraught relationship to guns and gun ownership, along with structures of white supremacy and American exceptionalism. Infused with uncomfortable rawness, and juxtaposed against skillfully choreographed theatricality, \u003cem>Someone Dies Again\u003c/em> not only invites its audience in but bars the door behind them, underscoring societal complicity with what plays out onstage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914178\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-B-_JSP5528-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits in a cluttered room with duct tape over his mouth\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-B-_JSP5528-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-B-_JSP5528-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-B-_JSP5528-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-B-_JSP5528-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-B-_JSP5528.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the Imaginists’ ‘Someone Dies Again,’ Larry (David Roby) sits in his room, with his mouth taped shut, after an encounter with his brother. \u003ccite>(Tibidabo Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A gun is brought into immediate play during the first scene, when family patriarch Marty (G. Brent Lindsay) discovers it in his brother Larry’s (David Roby) possession. Larry’s been staying in the spare room ever since his trailer burned down in an electrical fire, keeping the handgun under his pillow as a good luck charm and sleeping aid. Its presence initiates an undercurrent of unease that permeates the rest of the piece. The implied threat of violence hangs over even such quotidian activities as a family birthday celebration and a trip to the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This, Schilling seems to imply, is what it feels like every day in America. We go about our daily routines while somehow compartmentalizing the danger that casual access to guns poses to even the sleepiest of communities. The production leans heavily into these quiet moments, drawing them out like rubber bands that feel like they’ll snap but often don’t. Bodies curl into themselves, not in repose, but in tense stasis. Conversations circle around pain and grief without naming them out loud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_10834881']The emotion that does reveal itself, early and often, is anger. Marty and Larry are angry at their deceased, vindictive father, who appears in Marty’s photography studio as a corporeal vision full of ham-fisted vitriol. Marty’s college-going daughter Maddie (Emma Attwood) is angry at his insistence on reopening old wounds, which are not his alone to bear. Marty’s wife Gena (Amy Pinto) seems hardly able to emote at all, but she, too, carries a reserve of rage that seeps out of her like toxic waste. As they roil in their discomfort, all of their palpable grief and rage obfuscates the charged reality of what’s gradually revealed: their son and brother Miles, who died six years ago, may have not been a victim at all, but an instigator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This struggle between this family’s need to “know the truth” clashes with their need to be “right.” It’s a struggle that frequently manifests itself bodily. In one scene, Marty clambers onto a table and stretches outward, reaching for a memory of his son as superimposed on the body of a stranger. In another, the querulous apparition of his dead father (John Craven) crawls under the table and begins bucking it up and down like a petulant poltergeist. A lawyer (John Most) with his own agenda stands on a chair, asserting a quiet dominance. The neighborhood grocer (Yareny Fuentes) shuts down all but the most cursory of small talk, keeping her face pointedly averted, shielding herself from her customers’ desperate need for validation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-E-_JSP5900-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two men, one shorter, white, with long hair, pushes the chest of the taller Black man\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-E-_JSP5900-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-E-_JSP5900-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-E-_JSP5900-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-E-_JSP5900-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-E-_JSP5900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marty (G. Brent Lindsay, left) pushes Ken (Stephen K. Patterson) away in the Imaginists’ ‘Someone Dies Again.’ \u003ccite>(Tibidabo Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Where the piece fumbles is in its 11th hour attempt to shoehorn cautionary commentary about social media and reality television into the already sprawling work. While it certainly fits into the characters’ positioning of themselves in the center of a narrative of which they are not the heroes, the turn feels underdeveloped—more distraction than direction. As Marty spirals out of control in a seething microcosm of what Maddy’s professor (Tessa Rissacher) might call “white supremacist delusion,” the fact that he can’t help simultaneously gloating over “likes” feels a little too on the nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piece succeeds best by revealing the dichotomy of the “good guy with a gun/bad guy with a gun” as the banal mythology it is, leaving unanswered the inevitable question: where do we go from here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Someone Dies Again’ runs June 2–11 at the Imaginists Theater, 461 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa. \u003ca href=\"http://theimaginists.org\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The collaboration with Hungarian director Árpád Schilling is, sadly, more timely than ever.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006782,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1004},"headData":{"title":"In the Imaginists' 'Someone Dies Again,' the Pain of Gun Violence is Ever-Present | KQED","description":"The collaboration with Hungarian director Árpád Schilling is, sadly, more timely than ever.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"In the Imaginists' 'Someone Dies Again,' the Pain of Gun Violence is Ever-Present","datePublished":"2022-05-31T20:23:18.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:59:42.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","subhead":"Santa Rosa theatre-makers the Imaginists explore gun violence through a European director’s eyes","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/arts/13914176/the-imaginists-someone-dies-again-review","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was 2019 when I \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatrebayarea.org/news/435111/Keep-An-Eye-On-The-Imaginists-Find-Success-in-Embracing-the-Unknown.htm\">first covered the Imaginists’ artistic collaboration with Hungarian director Árpád Schilling\u003c/a>—a then-unwritten work examining American gun violence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot has changed since that different, pre-COVID time. Yet as I write this review, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101889325/country-grieves-for-victims-and-survivors-of-uvalde-texas-school-massacre\">in the wake of yet another mass shooting of schoolchildren\u003c/a>, the topic is as painfully timely as when the Imaginists first conceived the production. The theater company first invited Schilling to Santa Rosa in 2015, whereupon the internationally acclaimed director learned about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/116116/sonomy-county-sheriff-who-shot-andy-lopez-identified\">fatal shooting of 13-year-old Andy Lopez by a Sheriff’s deputy\u003c/a>—a devastating moment for Santa Rosa, where the Imaginists have created theater for 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914180\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"To women sit on a couch facing each other, a man watches them from a table set on the other side of the stage\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-the-Imaginists-A9_03158.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gena (Amy Pinto, left) and Maddy (Emma Atwood) struggle to understand each other’s points of view in the Imaginists’ ‘Someone Dies Again.’ \u003ccite>(Robbie Sweeny)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Schilling and [his partner] Lilla Sárosdi were absolutely horrified that the police would actually use their guns against citizens,” Imaginists co-founder Amy Pinto told me in 2019. Known for co-creating generative work with a social justice component, Schilling understood that, as a European, his “outsider” approach to this quintessentially American topic would be artistically fertile and potentially revelatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resultant production is \u003cem>Someone Dies Again\u003c/em>, which, after nearly two years of pandemic-related delays, premiered May 20 at Z Space in San Francisco, and opens a Santa Rosa run on Thursday, June 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Someone Dies Again\u003c/em> simmers with the effects of one real-life catastrophe after another—but after setbacks, public health crises and heartbreaks, it emerges from the wreckage filled with purpose. The production examines our fraught relationship to guns and gun ownership, along with structures of white supremacy and American exceptionalism. Infused with uncomfortable rawness, and juxtaposed against skillfully choreographed theatricality, \u003cem>Someone Dies Again\u003c/em> not only invites its audience in but bars the door behind them, underscoring societal complicity with what plays out onstage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914178\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-B-_JSP5528-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits in a cluttered room with duct tape over his mouth\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-B-_JSP5528-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-B-_JSP5528-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-B-_JSP5528-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-B-_JSP5528-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-B-_JSP5528.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the Imaginists’ ‘Someone Dies Again,’ Larry (David Roby) sits in his room, with his mouth taped shut, after an encounter with his brother. \u003ccite>(Tibidabo Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A gun is brought into immediate play during the first scene, when family patriarch Marty (G. Brent Lindsay) discovers it in his brother Larry’s (David Roby) possession. Larry’s been staying in the spare room ever since his trailer burned down in an electrical fire, keeping the handgun under his pillow as a good luck charm and sleeping aid. Its presence initiates an undercurrent of unease that permeates the rest of the piece. The implied threat of violence hangs over even such quotidian activities as a family birthday celebration and a trip to the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This, Schilling seems to imply, is what it feels like every day in America. We go about our daily routines while somehow compartmentalizing the danger that casual access to guns poses to even the sleepiest of communities. The production leans heavily into these quiet moments, drawing them out like rubber bands that feel like they’ll snap but often don’t. Bodies curl into themselves, not in repose, but in tense stasis. Conversations circle around pain and grief without naming them out loud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_10834881","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The emotion that does reveal itself, early and often, is anger. Marty and Larry are angry at their deceased, vindictive father, who appears in Marty’s photography studio as a corporeal vision full of ham-fisted vitriol. Marty’s college-going daughter Maddie (Emma Attwood) is angry at his insistence on reopening old wounds, which are not his alone to bear. Marty’s wife Gena (Amy Pinto) seems hardly able to emote at all, but she, too, carries a reserve of rage that seeps out of her like toxic waste. As they roil in their discomfort, all of their palpable grief and rage obfuscates the charged reality of what’s gradually revealed: their son and brother Miles, who died six years ago, may have not been a victim at all, but an instigator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This struggle between this family’s need to “know the truth” clashes with their need to be “right.” It’s a struggle that frequently manifests itself bodily. In one scene, Marty clambers onto a table and stretches outward, reaching for a memory of his son as superimposed on the body of a stranger. In another, the querulous apparition of his dead father (John Craven) crawls under the table and begins bucking it up and down like a petulant poltergeist. A lawyer (John Most) with his own agenda stands on a chair, asserting a quiet dominance. The neighborhood grocer (Yareny Fuentes) shuts down all but the most cursory of small talk, keeping her face pointedly averted, shielding herself from her customers’ desperate need for validation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13914179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13914179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-E-_JSP5900-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two men, one shorter, white, with long hair, pushes the chest of the taller Black man\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-E-_JSP5900-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-E-_JSP5900-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-E-_JSP5900-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-E-_JSP5900-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SDA-PHOTO-promo-E-_JSP5900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marty (G. Brent Lindsay, left) pushes Ken (Stephen K. Patterson) away in the Imaginists’ ‘Someone Dies Again.’ \u003ccite>(Tibidabo Photography)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Where the piece fumbles is in its 11th hour attempt to shoehorn cautionary commentary about social media and reality television into the already sprawling work. While it certainly fits into the characters’ positioning of themselves in the center of a narrative of which they are not the heroes, the turn feels underdeveloped—more distraction than direction. As Marty spirals out of control in a seething microcosm of what Maddy’s professor (Tessa Rissacher) might call “white supremacist delusion,” the fact that he can’t help simultaneously gloating over “likes” feels a little too on the nose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The piece succeeds best by revealing the dichotomy of the “good guy with a gun/bad guy with a gun” as the banal mythology it is, leaving unanswered the inevitable question: where do we go from here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Someone Dies Again’ runs June 2–11 at the Imaginists Theater, 461 Sebastopol Ave., Santa Rosa. \u003ca href=\"http://theimaginists.org\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13914176/the-imaginists-someone-dies-again-review","authors":["11497"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_967"],"tags":["arts_4459","arts_11296","arts_11014","arts_10278","arts_3080","arts_3081","arts_2721","arts_1072","arts_585","arts_1240"],"featImg":"arts_13914181","label":"arts"},"arts_13914014":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13914014","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13914014","score":null,"sort":[1653589309000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oona-ruin-dont-look-down-week-of-tragedy","title":"On Hearing Oona’s ‘Don’t Look Down’ During a Week of Tragedy","publishDate":1653589309,"format":"standard","headTitle":"On Hearing Oona’s ‘Don’t Look Down’ During a Week of Tragedy | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Welcome to Pass the Aux, where KQED Arts & Culture brings you our favorite new tracks by Bay Area artists. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/pass-the-aux\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Check out past entries and submit a song for future coverage\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the first song on \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://oona.bandcamp.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ruin\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, the latest EP from Oakland singer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oonaruin/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Oona\u003c/a>, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvlaCQtRobY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Don’t Look Down\u003c/a>” had already gotten a few plays around my house before this past Tuesday, effectively working as nice background music. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came Wednesday morning, after the second-deadliest school shooting in America. The world should be stopping after the violent deaths of 19 children, but instead I was driving into work. I decided to play the song again, listening close this time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know that moments of despair can open one’s heart wide to any possible beauty, and magnify it, even exaggerate it. But Oona’s distant, cracking voice filled the car, and her words about broken hearts and lost innocence and fallen tears hit me right in the gut, the way only the perfect song at the perfect time can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvlaCQtRobY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When my elementary school-aged daughter is with me in the car for moments like this, she makes fun of my “leaky eyeball.” On Wednesday, as I kept replaying “Don’t Look Down” while my daughter sat miles away in a classroom, the tears came from imagining what these children in Texas, age 7 to 10, saw and felt and thought in their last five horrific minutes alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13913938']In one instant, “Don’t Look Down” had gone from a nice background song to a cutting lament for lost innocence, and for the way adulthood wraps us in protective naïveté. We grow older, we grow higher, and we cannot look down at our past selves, those idealized dreamers of yesterday. No—we are grown-ups, a nation of Icaruses flying too close to the sun, horse blinders blocking out tragedy, don’t look down, don’t look down, keep flying, keep doing the “right thing,” keep making money, keep voting for the approved candidates, with our head so high, full of foolish pride, keep buying new cars, keep up, keep up, keep up, higher, higher…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until suddenly, one day, 19 children are dead, bodies ripped apart by bullets, never to go home again. And we have to face facts, fall back to reality, lose our hearts, and finally, look down at what’s happened—while we’d flown higher and higher, ceaselessly against common sense, willfully ignoring the American reality of sanctioned death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was “Don’t Look Down” written about mass shootings? I could contact Oona and ask—but sometimes songs mean what they mean to the listener, and after this week, that’s how I’ll always hear it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After this week's school shooting, 'Don't Look Down' is heard anew as a lament for lost innocence, and for the way adulthood wraps us in protective naïveté.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006798,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":492},"headData":{"title":"On Hearing Oona’s ‘Don’t Look Down’ During a Week of Tragedy | KQED","description":"After this week's school shooting, 'Don't Look Down' is heard anew as a lament for lost innocence, and for the way adulthood wraps us in protective naïveté.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"On Hearing Oona’s ‘Don’t Look Down’ During a Week of Tragedy","datePublished":"2022-05-26T18:21:49.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:59:58.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Pass The Aux","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/pass-the-aux","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/arts/13914014/oona-ruin-dont-look-down-week-of-tragedy","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Welcome to Pass the Aux, where KQED Arts & Culture brings you our favorite new tracks by Bay Area artists. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/pass-the-aux\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Check out past entries and submit a song for future coverage\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the first song on \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://oona.bandcamp.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Ruin\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, the latest EP from Oakland singer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/oonaruin/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Oona\u003c/a>, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvlaCQtRobY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Don’t Look Down\u003c/a>” had already gotten a few plays around my house before this past Tuesday, effectively working as nice background music. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came Wednesday morning, after the second-deadliest school shooting in America. The world should be stopping after the violent deaths of 19 children, but instead I was driving into work. I decided to play the song again, listening close this time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know that moments of despair can open one’s heart wide to any possible beauty, and magnify it, even exaggerate it. But Oona’s distant, cracking voice filled the car, and her words about broken hearts and lost innocence and fallen tears hit me right in the gut, the way only the perfect song at the perfect time can do.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/BvlaCQtRobY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/BvlaCQtRobY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When my elementary school-aged daughter is with me in the car for moments like this, she makes fun of my “leaky eyeball.” On Wednesday, as I kept replaying “Don’t Look Down” while my daughter sat miles away in a classroom, the tears came from imagining what these children in Texas, age 7 to 10, saw and felt and thought in their last five horrific minutes alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13913938","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In one instant, “Don’t Look Down” had gone from a nice background song to a cutting lament for lost innocence, and for the way adulthood wraps us in protective naïveté. We grow older, we grow higher, and we cannot look down at our past selves, those idealized dreamers of yesterday. No—we are grown-ups, a nation of Icaruses flying too close to the sun, horse blinders blocking out tragedy, don’t look down, don’t look down, keep flying, keep doing the “right thing,” keep making money, keep voting for the approved candidates, with our head so high, full of foolish pride, keep buying new cars, keep up, keep up, keep up, higher, higher…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until suddenly, one day, 19 children are dead, bodies ripped apart by bullets, never to go home again. And we have to face facts, fall back to reality, lose our hearts, and finally, look down at what’s happened—while we’d flown higher and higher, ceaselessly against common sense, willfully ignoring the American reality of sanctioned death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was “Don’t Look Down” written about mass shootings? I could contact Oona and ask—but sometimes songs mean what they mean to the listener, and after this week, that’s how I’ll always hear it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13914014/oona-ruin-dont-look-down-week-of-tragedy","authors":["185"],"categories":["arts_1"],"tags":["arts_2415","arts_3080","arts_3081","arts_13240"],"featImg":"arts_13914027","label":"source_arts_13914014"},"arts_13913938":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13913938","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13913938","score":null,"sort":[1653516136000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-we-process-the-texas-shooting","title":"How We Process the Texas Shooting","publishDate":1653516136,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How We Process the Texas Shooting | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>There is no right way to grieve the violent, bloody killing of 19 elementary school children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a functioning human, then in the past day you’ve probably swung from shock, to sadness, to frustration and anger—and then back again. You’re not alone. Those of us at KQED Arts & Culture have been navigating the same storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How are \u003cem>you\u003c/em> doing? If you just need a place to vent, cry, lament, or try to make sense of the senseless, \u003ca href=\"mailto:gmeline@kqed.org?subject=Processing%20the%20Texas%20Shooting\">send us an email and let us know how you’re doing\u003c/a>. We promise one of us will get back to you, human to human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, we’ve been processing the news out of Texas, and its all-too-familiar news cycle—and finding sources of support, comfort, and determination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Resources for Grief\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#help\">How to Help\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1317456533.jpg\" alt=\"Sad Girl Hiding Face\" width=\"591\" height=\"591\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13913994\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1317456533.jpg 591w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1317456533-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Shutting Down and Feeling Drained\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I have to admit, I shut down. Like, completely. I had to stop working, I took a late afternoon nap, and I had a dream that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was in his car next to me, on the phone, rebutting demands to advance gun control legislation with facts that were patently untrue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dream felt real, because, well, it essentially is. Our nightmare of mass shootings is not going to stop until Capitol Hill takes action; until \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/bessbell/status/1529290355669028864\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NRA-backed senators\u003c/a> put human life above money; until we stop hearing “cast your vote in November” and start hearing about the lawmakers that we’ve already voted for doing their job, and protecting our kids. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I woke up from my dream and put on Archie Shepp’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLf8CINFnEM\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Damn If I Know\u003c/a>,” a searing cry from a jazz master who turned 85 yesterday and got the worst birthday present imaginable, 19 children, bodies mangled in the classroom, dead, dead, dead. When my daughter came home from elementary school, my job as a dad was to hug her with all the love in the world. But I am so, so tired of this, and believe me, I was almost too drained to even greet her at the door.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline, Senior Editor\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13909111']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Utilizing Anger as a Productive Fuel\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I’ve written guides for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13886630/how-to-stop-doomscrolling-and-start-using-the-internet-mindfully\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">avoiding doomscrolling\u003c/a> and practicing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876619/self-care-tips-to-get-you-through-the-new-coronavirus-normal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">self-care through tragedy\u003c/a>. But after two years of COVID, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1101050970/2022-school-shootings-so-far\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">27 school shootings in the United States this year alone\u003c/a>, I find it cruel and perverse that we repeatedly need to learn to cope with escalating, inhumane violence. I’m tired of elected officials offering thoughts and prayers or encouraging us to vote. \u003ci>Please actually do something.\u003c/i> Getting out to the ballot box isn’t enough—this situation calls for direct action, in order to make this human rights crisis impossible for those in power to ignore. It also calls for an entire examination of our political system and the powerful influence of special-interest groups like the NRA. If you’re full of pent-up rage, channel it into action. Make protest signs, call your legislators, get creative. Rage can be productive fuel for change.\u003cem>—Nastia Voynovskaya, Associate Editor\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sharing a Shroud of Grief\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I spent last night going to a show in August Hall with a dear friend who lost her husband suddenly two years ago. She’s still in that stage of grief where it hangs on her like a dark shroud, even when she’s not talking about it. I recognize the shroud, because it took me five years to emerge from under my own after my husband died in 2013. My friend and I didn’t talk about Uvalde’s elementary school slaughter. Instead, we held each other close, told each other we loved each other, and went home early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before I went to sleep, I read the details. I looked closely at the teachers’ smiles, and the children’s faces brimming with promise. I tried to imagine the unimaginable—the agony of the parents. That first day is like an out-of-body experience. Coroners and police must be spoken to, forms must be signed, family and friends must be informed, funeral homes must be called. And then you must go back to your deafeningly silent home, and begin the process of learning to live with a metaphorical shroud where your person used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deep grief leaves you feeling cut off from everyone else. But the truth is that too many people are living under the same shroud. In 2020, 19,384 Americans were shot to death by other Americans. And 4,300 of them were children and teenagers. Picture five sold-out shows at August Hall, each populated exclusively by young people. Now picture absolutely no one coming home from any of them. That’s the reality America’s youth is currently living, year over year over year, and America’s chaperones are doing absolutely nothing about it.\u003cem>—Rae Alexandra, Staff Writer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13893843']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Demanding Immediate Legislation from Lawmakers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I first heard the news on Slack when the victims were thought to be just two children. I didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to pause work and doomscroll through the imminent Twitter storm. Before letting the news hit me, before even knowing what the news was, I scrambled to gather resources to add to the conversation. I did this almost on autopilot—this has happened many times before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These included archival stories we’re all too familiar with from these recurring atrocities. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11790663/18-songs-we-listen-to-in-times-of-tumult\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Songs We Listen to in Times of Tumult and Distress\u003c/a>.” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893843/9-helpful-things-to-know-about-grief-that-nobody-warns-you-about\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">9 Helpful Things To Know About Grief That Nobody Warns You About\u003c/a>.” Insightful, poignant resources that I hope will help others. But I haven’t yet let them help me. Personally, I’m not ready to talk about grief. I’m ready for immediate action to curb this horrific and ceaseless domestic terrorism. If those in power don’t effectuate gun reform and pull out all stops to cease the murders of children, Black families, Asian churchgoers and other innocent lives, then I never want to hear a politician lament their “thoughts and prayers” again. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to \u003ca href=\"https://archive.thinkprogress.org/corporations-nra-f0d8074f2ca7/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">boycott companies who support the NRA\u003c/a>; I want to advocate against gun lobbyists, corrupt lawmakers and the military-industrial complex that promotes military-grade gun ownership and enables more lives to be taken. At a time when the imminent repeal of reproductive rights is threatening lives, and gun rights continue to take them, we need to ask what freedom truly means, and then fight for it.\u003cem>—Justin Ebrahemi, Digital Engagement Manager\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1217439400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13913993\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1217439400.jpg 724w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1217439400-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Becoming Numb to Constant Catastrophe\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Columbine happened on my birthday. I was in school with other high school students, gossiping, passing notes in class, when out of nowhere, an assembly was called to explain what happened. There were tears everywhere, guidance counselors, teachers holding students, and parents picking up their kids early to hold them close. That was almost 25 years ago. Nothing has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s actually not true—massacres like this are far more common now. I have young nieces and nephews for whom a school shooting, or an open slaughter of people at grocery stores, movie theaters or even churches is not shocking. We grieve and mourn because we are helpless. We hear the same condolences and apologies from those who could prevent these killings but don’t. We compartmentalize because tragedies like this happen weekly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most terrifying part for me is that I can have tears in my eyes for the sadness I feel, and then a few minutes later I’ll continue on as normal. I am becoming numb to the constant sense of catastrophe. You are not alone in your confusion of how to process what’s happening. You are not alone if you feel everything, and recoil in the fetal position. You are not alone if you feel nothing, and go about your day scrolling through posts and articles numb and without reaction. Simply put: you are not alone.\u003cem>—Ria Garewal, Engagement Producer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resolving In Our Sadness To Take Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I lost a son to illness nearly 30 years ago. When it’s your child, you don’t stop grieving; you grow with it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when something like the Uvalde school massacre happens, when 19 young lives are erased, snuffed out, as in so many school massacres before, I cannot access my grief. And while I ache for the families, knowing, as I do, just some of what they are going through, I can only rage against a society that will not act to stop this killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our sadness, we must all do something. Even if in the immediate term, it’s only an email or text to your senators (or \u003ca href=\"https://www.270towin.com/elected-officials/contact-us-senators\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">all 50 senators\u003c/a>) demanding a vote on legislation stalled in the Senate requiring background checks for gun purchases. Let them know you won’t be numbed into submission. And that we will not abandon our children to gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, if you haven’t already, open your arms wide to your grief.\u003cem>—David Markus, Executive in Charge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"resources\">\u003c/a>Resources for Grief and Trauma\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764070/how-to-talk-with-kids-after-a-traumatic-event\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">How to Talk With Kids After a Traumatic Event\u003c/a> (KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/11/749765103/from-pain-to-purpose-5-ways-to-cope-in-the-wake-of-trauma\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">From Pain to Purpose: 5 Ways to Cope in the Wake of Trauma\u003c/a> (NPR)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59143/war-crisis-tragedy-how-to-talk-with-kids-when-the-news-is-scary\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">War, Crisis, Tragedy: How to Talk With Kids When the News is Scary\u003c/a> (MindShift)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881725/where-to-find-affordable-culturally-competent-therapy-in-bay-area-and-beyond\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Where to Find Affordable, Culturally Competent Therapy in the Bay Area\u003c/a> (KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pNvBomQazaRMif9sharZoypE_85NXleP/view\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A Watch Guide for \u003cem>When the Waters Get Deep\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (KQED) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd6DH16H9eo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">KQED’s Brian Watt Talks With Warriors Coach Steve Kerr About Preventing Gun Violence\u003c/a> (Commonwealth Club)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"help\">\u003c/a>How to Help\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/donate-to-texas-elementary-school-shooting-relief\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Donate to Texas Elementary School Shooting Relief\u003c/a> (GoFundMe)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lulac.org/uvaldefund/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fund for Families of Victims and Survivors of the Uvalde School Shooting\u003c/a> (League of United Latin American Citizens)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucisd.net/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=1167&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=13134&PageID=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Uvalde School District Fund for Families\u003c/a> (USD)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In the past day, you’ve probably swung from shock, to sadness, to frustration and anger. You're not alone.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006803,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1681},"headData":{"title":"How We Process the Texas Shooting | KQED","description":"In the past day, you’ve probably swung from shock, to sadness, to frustration and anger. You're not alone.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"How We Process the Texas Shooting","datePublished":"2022-05-25T22:02:16.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:00:03.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Commentary ","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/artscommentary","sticky":false,"nprByline":"KQED Arts & Culture Staff","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/arts/13913938/how-we-process-the-texas-shooting","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There is no right way to grieve the violent, bloody killing of 19 elementary school children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a functioning human, then in the past day you’ve probably swung from shock, to sadness, to frustration and anger—and then back again. You’re not alone. Those of us at KQED Arts & Culture have been navigating the same storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How are \u003cem>you\u003c/em> doing? If you just need a place to vent, cry, lament, or try to make sense of the senseless, \u003ca href=\"mailto:gmeline@kqed.org?subject=Processing%20the%20Texas%20Shooting\">send us an email and let us know how you’re doing\u003c/a>. We promise one of us will get back to you, human to human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, we’ve been processing the news out of Texas, and its all-too-familiar news cycle—and finding sources of support, comfort, and determination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Skip to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Resources for Grief\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#help\">How to Help\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1317456533.jpg\" alt=\"Sad Girl Hiding Face\" width=\"591\" height=\"591\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13913994\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1317456533.jpg 591w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1317456533-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Shutting Down and Feeling Drained\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I have to admit, I shut down. Like, completely. I had to stop working, I took a late afternoon nap, and I had a dream that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was in his car next to me, on the phone, rebutting demands to advance gun control legislation with facts that were patently untrue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dream felt real, because, well, it essentially is. Our nightmare of mass shootings is not going to stop until Capitol Hill takes action; until \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/bessbell/status/1529290355669028864\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">NRA-backed senators\u003c/a> put human life above money; until we stop hearing “cast your vote in November” and start hearing about the lawmakers that we’ve already voted for doing their job, and protecting our kids. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I woke up from my dream and put on Archie Shepp’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLf8CINFnEM\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Damn If I Know\u003c/a>,” a searing cry from a jazz master who turned 85 yesterday and got the worst birthday present imaginable, 19 children, bodies mangled in the classroom, dead, dead, dead. When my daughter came home from elementary school, my job as a dad was to hug her with all the love in the world. But I am so, so tired of this, and believe me, I was almost too drained to even greet her at the door.\u003cem>—Gabe Meline, Senior Editor\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13909111","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Utilizing Anger as a Productive Fuel\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I’ve written guides for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13886630/how-to-stop-doomscrolling-and-start-using-the-internet-mindfully\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">avoiding doomscrolling\u003c/a> and practicing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876619/self-care-tips-to-get-you-through-the-new-coronavirus-normal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">self-care through tragedy\u003c/a>. But after two years of COVID, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1101050970/2022-school-shootings-so-far\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">27 school shootings in the United States this year alone\u003c/a>, I find it cruel and perverse that we repeatedly need to learn to cope with escalating, inhumane violence. I’m tired of elected officials offering thoughts and prayers or encouraging us to vote. \u003ci>Please actually do something.\u003c/i> Getting out to the ballot box isn’t enough—this situation calls for direct action, in order to make this human rights crisis impossible for those in power to ignore. It also calls for an entire examination of our political system and the powerful influence of special-interest groups like the NRA. If you’re full of pent-up rage, channel it into action. Make protest signs, call your legislators, get creative. Rage can be productive fuel for change.\u003cem>—Nastia Voynovskaya, Associate Editor\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sharing a Shroud of Grief\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I spent last night going to a show in August Hall with a dear friend who lost her husband suddenly two years ago. She’s still in that stage of grief where it hangs on her like a dark shroud, even when she’s not talking about it. I recognize the shroud, because it took me five years to emerge from under my own after my husband died in 2013. My friend and I didn’t talk about Uvalde’s elementary school slaughter. Instead, we held each other close, told each other we loved each other, and went home early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before I went to sleep, I read the details. I looked closely at the teachers’ smiles, and the children’s faces brimming with promise. I tried to imagine the unimaginable—the agony of the parents. That first day is like an out-of-body experience. Coroners and police must be spoken to, forms must be signed, family and friends must be informed, funeral homes must be called. And then you must go back to your deafeningly silent home, and begin the process of learning to live with a metaphorical shroud where your person used to be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deep grief leaves you feeling cut off from everyone else. But the truth is that too many people are living under the same shroud. In 2020, 19,384 Americans were shot to death by other Americans. And 4,300 of them were children and teenagers. Picture five sold-out shows at August Hall, each populated exclusively by young people. Now picture absolutely no one coming home from any of them. That’s the reality America’s youth is currently living, year over year over year, and America’s chaperones are doing absolutely nothing about it.\u003cem>—Rae Alexandra, Staff Writer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13893843","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Demanding Immediate Legislation from Lawmakers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I first heard the news on Slack when the victims were thought to be just two children. I didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to pause work and doomscroll through the imminent Twitter storm. Before letting the news hit me, before even knowing what the news was, I scrambled to gather resources to add to the conversation. I did this almost on autopilot—this has happened many times before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These included archival stories we’re all too familiar with from these recurring atrocities. “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11790663/18-songs-we-listen-to-in-times-of-tumult\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Songs We Listen to in Times of Tumult and Distress\u003c/a>.” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893843/9-helpful-things-to-know-about-grief-that-nobody-warns-you-about\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">9 Helpful Things To Know About Grief That Nobody Warns You About\u003c/a>.” Insightful, poignant resources that I hope will help others. But I haven’t yet let them help me. Personally, I’m not ready to talk about grief. I’m ready for immediate action to curb this horrific and ceaseless domestic terrorism. If those in power don’t effectuate gun reform and pull out all stops to cease the murders of children, Black families, Asian churchgoers and other innocent lives, then I never want to hear a politician lament their “thoughts and prayers” again. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to \u003ca href=\"https://archive.thinkprogress.org/corporations-nra-f0d8074f2ca7/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">boycott companies who support the NRA\u003c/a>; I want to advocate against gun lobbyists, corrupt lawmakers and the military-industrial complex that promotes military-grade gun ownership and enables more lives to be taken. At a time when the imminent repeal of reproductive rights is threatening lives, and gun rights continue to take them, we need to ask what freedom truly means, and then fight for it.\u003cem>—Justin Ebrahemi, Digital Engagement Manager\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1217439400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13913993\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1217439400.jpg 724w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/iStock-1217439400-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Becoming Numb to Constant Catastrophe\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Columbine happened on my birthday. I was in school with other high school students, gossiping, passing notes in class, when out of nowhere, an assembly was called to explain what happened. There were tears everywhere, guidance counselors, teachers holding students, and parents picking up their kids early to hold them close. That was almost 25 years ago. Nothing has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s actually not true—massacres like this are far more common now. I have young nieces and nephews for whom a school shooting, or an open slaughter of people at grocery stores, movie theaters or even churches is not shocking. We grieve and mourn because we are helpless. We hear the same condolences and apologies from those who could prevent these killings but don’t. We compartmentalize because tragedies like this happen weekly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most terrifying part for me is that I can have tears in my eyes for the sadness I feel, and then a few minutes later I’ll continue on as normal. I am becoming numb to the constant sense of catastrophe. You are not alone in your confusion of how to process what’s happening. You are not alone if you feel everything, and recoil in the fetal position. You are not alone if you feel nothing, and go about your day scrolling through posts and articles numb and without reaction. Simply put: you are not alone.\u003cem>—Ria Garewal, Engagement Producer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resolving In Our Sadness To Take Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>I lost a son to illness nearly 30 years ago. When it’s your child, you don’t stop grieving; you grow with it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when something like the Uvalde school massacre happens, when 19 young lives are erased, snuffed out, as in so many school massacres before, I cannot access my grief. And while I ache for the families, knowing, as I do, just some of what they are going through, I can only rage against a society that will not act to stop this killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our sadness, we must all do something. Even if in the immediate term, it’s only an email or text to your senators (or \u003ca href=\"https://www.270towin.com/elected-officials/contact-us-senators\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">all 50 senators\u003c/a>) demanding a vote on legislation stalled in the Senate requiring background checks for gun purchases. Let them know you won’t be numbed into submission. And that we will not abandon our children to gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, if you haven’t already, open your arms wide to your grief.\u003cem>—David Markus, Executive in Charge\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"resources\">\u003c/a>Resources for Grief and Trauma\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764070/how-to-talk-with-kids-after-a-traumatic-event\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">How to Talk With Kids After a Traumatic Event\u003c/a> (KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/11/749765103/from-pain-to-purpose-5-ways-to-cope-in-the-wake-of-trauma\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">From Pain to Purpose: 5 Ways to Cope in the Wake of Trauma\u003c/a> (NPR)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59143/war-crisis-tragedy-how-to-talk-with-kids-when-the-news-is-scary\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">War, Crisis, Tragedy: How to Talk With Kids When the News is Scary\u003c/a> (MindShift)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881725/where-to-find-affordable-culturally-competent-therapy-in-bay-area-and-beyond\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Where to Find Affordable, Culturally Competent Therapy in the Bay Area\u003c/a> (KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pNvBomQazaRMif9sharZoypE_85NXleP/view\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A Watch Guide for \u003cem>When the Waters Get Deep\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (KQED) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd6DH16H9eo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">KQED’s Brian Watt Talks With Warriors Coach Steve Kerr About Preventing Gun Violence\u003c/a> (Commonwealth Club)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"help\">\u003c/a>How to Help\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/donate-to-texas-elementary-school-shooting-relief\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Donate to Texas Elementary School Shooting Relief\u003c/a> (GoFundMe)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lulac.org/uvaldefund/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fund for Families of Victims and Survivors of the Uvalde School Shooting\u003c/a> (League of United Latin American Citizens)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ucisd.net/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=1167&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=13134&PageID=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Uvalde School District Fund for Families\u003c/a> (USD)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv 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at 2:50 PM ET.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uvalde, Texas, is reeling from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1101037902/texas-elementary-school-shooting-uvalde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second-deadliest school shooting\u003c/a> in U.S. history after a gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many family members—some of whom \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/families-texas-school-shooting-give-dna-swabs-help-identify-victims-2022-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave DNA swabs\u003c/a> to help investigators identify victims—waited for hours for news of their loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onlookers in and beyond Texas may be wondering what support they can offer. The community is looking for blood donations, legal assistance and funds for victims’ families. Read on to learn how you can help.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Donate blood in the days and weeks ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>University Health System—the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/texas-school-shooting-2022-05-24#blood-drives-have-been-set-up-across-uvalde-for-shooting-victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">largest transfuser of blood\u003c/a> in the San Antonio area—is encouraging community members to donate blood to hospitals and centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your donation can help ensure we have supplies immediately available for the victims of this tragic shooting,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/UnivHealthSA/status/1529218935803023360?s=20&t=veAMHOkaO_o05ntqt6dZdA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it tweeted\u003c/a>. Many of its online appointments are booked through the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11764070']South Texas Blood & Tissue \u003ca href=\"https://biobridgeglobal.org/community/our-thoughts-right-now-are-with-the-community-of-uvalde/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said on Tuesday\u003c/a> that thanks to donors, it was able to send 15 units of blood to the school and local hospitals immediately after the shooting, and another 10 to an area hospital later in the day upon request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to work with hospitals in the area to make blood available as it’s needed and to rebuild their supply for other patients in need,” the organization said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blood center is holding an \u003ca href=\"https://donor.southtexasblood.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/136932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emergency blood drive\u003c/a> in Uvalde on today, which it said has already filled up with appointments. It \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/connectforlife/status/1529260646117916672?s=20&t=veAMHOkaO_o05ntqt6dZdA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">later tweeted\u003c/a> that donors were experiencing a 2-hour wait time and that all of its appointments were booked through Saturday. But the center stressed that help would still be needed after beyond that point, added slots to its \u003ca href=\"https://biobridgeglobal.org/events/list/?tribe_eventcategory%5B0%5D=468&skin=donors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memorial Day blood drive\u003c/a> and encouraged people to \u003ca href=\"https://biobridgeglobal.org/donors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">schedule (and keep) appointments\u003c/a> for the following week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This tragedy highlights the importance of always having blood available on the shelf and before it’s needed,” the center said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redcrossblood.org/faq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about the blood donation process.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Support verified fundraisers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>GoFundMe has established an online hub of verified fundraisers supporting victims and loved ones affected by the shooting, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/donate-to-texas-elementary-school-shooting-relief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you can find here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13881725']Those include \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/mtdrdc-texas-elementary-school-shooting-victims-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a fundraiser organized by VictimsFirst\u003c/a> (a network of survivors and relatives affected by previous mass shootings) to provide victims’ family members with no-strings-attached cash payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said it started the fund “to make sure that 100% of what is collected goes DIRECTLY to the victim base so the victims’ families and those wounded/injured are protected from fraud and exploitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday morning, all three verified fundraisers—the VictimsFirst fund, a campaign raising money for funeral expenses for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-us-put-our-newly-angel-to-rest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">family of Xavier Lopez\u003c/a> and a fundraiser by Austin-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/robb-elementary-school-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Verdes Supporter Group\u003c/a>—had exceeded their financial goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two funeral homes in the area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RushEstesKnowMortUvalde/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rushing-Estes Mortuary Uvalde\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/hillcrestfh/photos/a.317618715397540/1334905853668816/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home\u003c/a>, said in social media posts that they would offer their services to families for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More places to donate\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucisd.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school district\u003c/a> in Uvalde has opened \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Uvalde_CISD/status/1529515364152901633?s=20&t=RJqsE_eeWdJcG6v1MH5uzw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an official account\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.fsbuvalde.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First State Bank of Uvalde\u003c/a> to support Robb Elementary families affected by the tragedy. People can send checks through the mail (payable to the “Robb School Memorial Fund”) or donate money through Zelle to robbschoolmemorialfund@gmail.com\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other institutions and organizations are also raising money for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='mindshift_59143']People can donate directly to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityhealthsystem.com/ways-to-give/donate-to-a-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uvalde Victims Relief Fund created\u003c/a> by University Health, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has created \u003ca href=\"https://lulac.org/uvaldefund/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a fund for victims and survivors\u003c/a>, and says 100% of contributions will go directly to their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where 90 percent of the students of Robb Elementary School identify as Hispanics and more than four-fifths are economically disadvantaged, this community NEEDS our collective prayers, help, and support,” the group wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The community is seeking volunteer legal services\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The San Antonio Legal Services Association is seeking volunteer attorneys who are licensed to practice in the state of Texas, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SALSASanAntonio/posts/550018863333129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Facebook post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Volunteer NOW to assist Uvalde Shooting Victims and Families with Unmet Legal Needs,” it wrote. “SALSA will respond with pro bono assistance as called upon to do so by community partners and civil leaders over the coming weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization is asking qualified attorneys to email them with their area of practice and availability through the month of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+to+help+Uvalde+families+following+yesterday%27s+elementary+school+shooting&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The community is seeking blood donations, legal assistance and funds for victims' families. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006806,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":779},"headData":{"title":"How to Help Uvalde Families Following the Texas Elementary School Shooting | KQED","description":"The community is seeking blood donations, legal assistance and funds for victims' families. 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The community is looking for blood donations, legal assistance and funds for victims’ families. Read on to learn how you can help.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Donate blood in the days and weeks ahead\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>University Health System—the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/live-updates/texas-school-shooting-2022-05-24#blood-drives-have-been-set-up-across-uvalde-for-shooting-victims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">largest transfuser of blood\u003c/a> in the San Antonio area—is encouraging community members to donate blood to hospitals and centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your donation can help ensure we have supplies immediately available for the victims of this tragic shooting,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/UnivHealthSA/status/1529218935803023360?s=20&t=veAMHOkaO_o05ntqt6dZdA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it tweeted\u003c/a>. Many of its online appointments are booked through the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11764070","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>South Texas Blood & Tissue \u003ca href=\"https://biobridgeglobal.org/community/our-thoughts-right-now-are-with-the-community-of-uvalde/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said on Tuesday\u003c/a> that thanks to donors, it was able to send 15 units of blood to the school and local hospitals immediately after the shooting, and another 10 to an area hospital later in the day upon request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will continue to work with hospitals in the area to make blood available as it’s needed and to rebuild their supply for other patients in need,” the organization said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blood center is holding an \u003ca href=\"https://donor.southtexasblood.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/136932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emergency blood drive\u003c/a> in Uvalde on today, which it said has already filled up with appointments. It \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/connectforlife/status/1529260646117916672?s=20&t=veAMHOkaO_o05ntqt6dZdA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">later tweeted\u003c/a> that donors were experiencing a 2-hour wait time and that all of its appointments were booked through Saturday. But the center stressed that help would still be needed after beyond that point, added slots to its \u003ca href=\"https://biobridgeglobal.org/events/list/?tribe_eventcategory%5B0%5D=468&skin=donors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memorial Day blood drive\u003c/a> and encouraged people to \u003ca href=\"https://biobridgeglobal.org/donors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">schedule (and keep) appointments\u003c/a> for the following week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This tragedy highlights the importance of always having blood available on the shelf and before it’s needed,” the center said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.redcrossblood.org/faq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more about the blood donation process.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Support verified fundraisers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>GoFundMe has established an online hub of verified fundraisers supporting victims and loved ones affected by the shooting, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/donate-to-texas-elementary-school-shooting-relief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you can find here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13881725","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Those include \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/mtdrdc-texas-elementary-school-shooting-victims-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a fundraiser organized by VictimsFirst\u003c/a> (a network of survivors and relatives affected by previous mass shootings) to provide victims’ family members with no-strings-attached cash payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said it started the fund “to make sure that 100% of what is collected goes DIRECTLY to the victim base so the victims’ families and those wounded/injured are protected from fraud and exploitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday morning, all three verified fundraisers—the VictimsFirst fund, a campaign raising money for funeral expenses for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/please-help-us-put-our-newly-angel-to-rest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">family of Xavier Lopez\u003c/a> and a fundraiser by Austin-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/robb-elementary-school-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Verdes Supporter Group\u003c/a>—had exceeded their financial goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two funeral homes in the area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RushEstesKnowMortUvalde/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rushing-Estes Mortuary Uvalde\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/hillcrestfh/photos/a.317618715397540/1334905853668816/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home\u003c/a>, said in social media posts that they would offer their services to families for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>More places to donate\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucisd.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">school district\u003c/a> in Uvalde has opened \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Uvalde_CISD/status/1529515364152901633?s=20&t=RJqsE_eeWdJcG6v1MH5uzw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an official account\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.fsbuvalde.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First State Bank of Uvalde\u003c/a> to support Robb Elementary families affected by the tragedy. People can send checks through the mail (payable to the “Robb School Memorial Fund”) or donate money through Zelle to robbschoolmemorialfund@gmail.com\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other institutions and organizations are also raising money for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"mindshift_59143","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>People can donate directly to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityhealthsystem.com/ways-to-give/donate-to-a-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uvalde Victims Relief Fund created\u003c/a> by University Health, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has created \u003ca href=\"https://lulac.org/uvaldefund/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a fund for victims and survivors\u003c/a>, and says 100% of contributions will go directly to their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where 90 percent of the students of Robb Elementary School identify as Hispanics and more than four-fifths are economically disadvantaged, this community NEEDS our collective prayers, help, and support,” the group wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The community is seeking volunteer legal services\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The San Antonio Legal Services Association is seeking volunteer attorneys who are licensed to practice in the state of Texas, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SALSASanAntonio/posts/550018863333129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Facebook post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Volunteer NOW to assist Uvalde Shooting Victims and Families with Unmet Legal Needs,” it wrote. “SALSA will respond with pro bono assistance as called upon to do so by community partners and civil leaders over the coming weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization is asking qualified attorneys to email them with their area of practice and availability through the month of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+to+help+Uvalde+families+following+yesterday%27s+elementary+school+shooting&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13913932/how-to-help-uvalde-families-following-yesterdays-elementary-school-shooting","authors":["byline_arts_13913932"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_10278","arts_3080","arts_3081","arts_17620","arts_3914"],"affiliates":["arts_10778"],"featImg":"arts_13913933","label":"arts_10778"},"arts_13898175":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13898175","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13898175","score":null,"sort":[1622659484000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"historian-uncovers-the-racist-roots-of-the-2nd-amendment","title":"Historian Uncovers the Racist Roots of the 2nd Amendment","publishDate":1622659484,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Historian Uncovers the Racist Roots of the 2nd Amendment | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Do Black people have full Second Amendment rights?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the question historian Carol Anderson set out to answer after Minnesota police killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/07/485066807/police-stop-ends-in-black-mans-death-aftermath-is-livestreamed-online-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philando Castile\u003c/a>, a Black man with a license to carry a gun, during a 2016 traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here was a Black man who was pulled over by the police and the police officer asked to see his identification. Philando Castile, using the NRA guidelines, alerts to the officer that he has a licensed weapon with him,” she says. “[And] the police officer began shooting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, after the assault on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/04/20/178063471/two-decades-later-some-branch-davidians-still-believe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Branch Davidian compound\u003c/a> in Waco, Texas, the National Rifle Association condemned federal authorities as “jack-booted government thugs.” But Anderson says the organization “went virtually silent” when when it came to Castile’s case, issuing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/NationalRifleAssociation/photos/10154483218346833/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tepid statement\u003c/a> that did not mention Castile by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her new book \u003cem>The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America,\u003c/em> Anderson traces racial distinctions in Americans’ treatment of gun ownership back to the founding of the country and the Second Amendment, which states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The language of the amendment, Anderson says, was crafted to ensure slave owners could quickly crush any rebellion or resistance from those they’d enslaved. And she says the right to bear arms, presumably guaranteed to all citizens, has been repeatedly denied to Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that I argue throughout this book is that it is just being Black that is the threat. And so when you mix that being Black as the threat with bearing arms, it’s an exponential fear,” she says. “This isn’t an anti-gun or a pro-gun book. This is a book about African Americans’ rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13898177\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/9781635574258-2ea460de0e43a1d016ac2f2c3fa40491e0ce53d9.jpg\" alt=\"'The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America,' by Carol Anderson.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/9781635574258-2ea460de0e43a1d016ac2f2c3fa40491e0ce53d9.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/9781635574258-2ea460de0e43a1d016ac2f2c3fa40491e0ce53d9-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America,’ by Carol Anderson. \u003ccite>(Bloomsbury Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the crafting of the Second Amendment at the Constitutional Convention \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in response to the concerns coming out of the Virginia ratification convention for the Constitution, led by Patrick Henry and George Mason, that a militia that was controlled solely by the federal government would not be there to protect the slave owners from an enslaved uprising. And … James Madison crafted that language in order to mollify the concerns coming out of Virginia and the anti-Federalists, that they would still have full control over their state militias—and those militias were used in order to quell slave revolts. … The Second Amendment really provided the cover, the assurances that Patrick Henry and George Mason needed, that the militias would not be controlled by the federal government, but that they would be controlled by the states and at the beck and call of the states to be able to put down these uprisings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Black peoples’ access to arms after the American Revolution \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You saw incredible restrictions being put in place about limiting access to arms. And this is across the board for free Blacks and, particularly, for the enslaved. And with each uprising, the laws became even more strict, even more definitive about who could and who could not bear arms. And so free Blacks were particularly proscribed. And so we see this, for instance, in Georgia, where Georgia had a law that restricted the carrying of guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the founding fathers’ fear of a slave revolt, which was stoked by the Haitian revolution \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Haiti began to overthrow the French colonial masters and were seizing that country for themselves, when Blacks were seizing that country for themselves, the violence of the Haitian revolution, the existence of the Haitian revolution, just sent basically an earthquake of fear throughout the United States. You had George Washington lamenting the violence. You had Thomas Jefferson talking about [how] he was fearful that those ideas over there, if they get here, it’s going to be fire. You had James Madison worried. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13870538']Whites … were fleeing Haiti and were bringing their enslaved populations with them, their enslaved people with them. … [There was a fear that] the ideas that these Black Haitians would have, that somehow those ideas of revolution, those ideas of racial justice, those ideas of freedom and democracy would just metastasize throughout Virginia’s Black enslaved population and cause a revolt. You had that same fear coming out of Baltimore that then began to open up the public armory to whites saying, ‘You are justified in being armed because they’re bringing too many of these Black Haitians, these enslaved Haitians up here who have these ideas that Black people can be free.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how the Black Panthers responded to restrictions in Black people’s ability to bear arms in the 1960s\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the Black Panthers were dealing with was massive police brutality. Just beating on Black people, killing Black people at will with impunity. And the Panthers decided that they would police the police. Huey P. Newton, who was the co-founder of the Black Panthers along with Bobby Seale, … knew the law and he knew what the law said about being able to open carry weapons and the types of weapons you were able to openly carry and how far you had to stand away from the police arresting somebody or interrogating somebody. … And the police did not like having these aggressive Black men and women doing that work of policing the police. And the response was a thing called the Mulford Act, and the Mulford Act set out to ban open carrying of weapons. And it was drafted by a conservative assemblyman in California with the support and help of an NRA representative and eagerly signed by Gov. Ronald Reagan as a way to make illegal what the Panthers were legally doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sam Briger and Kayla Lattimore produced and edited the audio of this interview. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Meghan Sullivan adapted it for the web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 Fresh Air. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Historian+Uncovers+The+Racist+Roots+Of+The+2nd+Amendment&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Carol Anderson, author of 'The Second,' says the amendment was designed to ensure slave owners could quickly crush rebellions.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705008281,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":1053},"headData":{"title":"Historian Uncovers the Racist Roots of the 2nd Amendment | KQED","description":"Carol Anderson, author of 'The Second,' says the amendment was designed to ensure slave owners could quickly crush rebellions.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Historian Uncovers the Racist Roots of the 2nd Amendment","datePublished":"2021-06-02T18:44:44.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:24:41.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Bettmann","nprByline":"Dave Davies","nprImageAgency":"Bettmann Archive","nprStoryId":"1002107670","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=1002107670&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002107670/historian-uncovers-the-racist-roots-of-the-2nd-amendment?ft=nprml&f=1002107670","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 02 Jun 2021 13:43:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 02 Jun 2021 11:40:40 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 02 Jun 2021 11:41:11 -0400","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2021/06/20210602_fa_01.mp3?orgId=427869011&topicId=1015&d=2124&p=13&story=1002107670&ft=nprml&f=1002107670","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/11002520291-6ef799.m3u?orgId=427869011&topicId=1015&d=2124&p=13&story=1002107670&ft=nprml&f=1002107670","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13898175/historian-uncovers-the-racist-roots-of-the-2nd-amendment","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2021/06/20210602_fa_01.mp3?orgId=427869011&topicId=1015&d=2124&p=13&story=1002107670&ft=nprml&f=1002107670","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Do Black people have full Second Amendment rights?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the question historian Carol Anderson set out to answer after Minnesota police killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/07/485066807/police-stop-ends-in-black-mans-death-aftermath-is-livestreamed-online-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philando Castile\u003c/a>, a Black man with a license to carry a gun, during a 2016 traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here was a Black man who was pulled over by the police and the police officer asked to see his identification. Philando Castile, using the NRA guidelines, alerts to the officer that he has a licensed weapon with him,” she says. “[And] the police officer began shooting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, after the assault on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/04/20/178063471/two-decades-later-some-branch-davidians-still-believe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Branch Davidian compound\u003c/a> in Waco, Texas, the National Rifle Association condemned federal authorities as “jack-booted government thugs.” But Anderson says the organization “went virtually silent” when when it came to Castile’s case, issuing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/NationalRifleAssociation/photos/10154483218346833/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tepid statement\u003c/a> that did not mention Castile by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her new book \u003cem>The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America,\u003c/em> Anderson traces racial distinctions in Americans’ treatment of gun ownership back to the founding of the country and the Second Amendment, which states:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The language of the amendment, Anderson says, was crafted to ensure slave owners could quickly crush any rebellion or resistance from those they’d enslaved. And she says the right to bear arms, presumably guaranteed to all citizens, has been repeatedly denied to Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that I argue throughout this book is that it is just being Black that is the threat. And so when you mix that being Black as the threat with bearing arms, it’s an exponential fear,” she says. “This isn’t an anti-gun or a pro-gun book. This is a book about African Americans’ rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13898177\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/9781635574258-2ea460de0e43a1d016ac2f2c3fa40491e0ce53d9.jpg\" alt=\"'The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America,' by Carol Anderson.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/9781635574258-2ea460de0e43a1d016ac2f2c3fa40491e0ce53d9.jpg 500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/9781635574258-2ea460de0e43a1d016ac2f2c3fa40491e0ce53d9-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America,’ by Carol Anderson. \u003ccite>(Bloomsbury Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the crafting of the Second Amendment at the Constitutional Convention \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in response to the concerns coming out of the Virginia ratification convention for the Constitution, led by Patrick Henry and George Mason, that a militia that was controlled solely by the federal government would not be there to protect the slave owners from an enslaved uprising. And … James Madison crafted that language in order to mollify the concerns coming out of Virginia and the anti-Federalists, that they would still have full control over their state militias—and those militias were used in order to quell slave revolts. … The Second Amendment really provided the cover, the assurances that Patrick Henry and George Mason needed, that the militias would not be controlled by the federal government, but that they would be controlled by the states and at the beck and call of the states to be able to put down these uprisings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Black peoples’ access to arms after the American Revolution \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You saw incredible restrictions being put in place about limiting access to arms. And this is across the board for free Blacks and, particularly, for the enslaved. And with each uprising, the laws became even more strict, even more definitive about who could and who could not bear arms. And so free Blacks were particularly proscribed. And so we see this, for instance, in Georgia, where Georgia had a law that restricted the carrying of guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the founding fathers’ fear of a slave revolt, which was stoked by the Haitian revolution \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Haiti began to overthrow the French colonial masters and were seizing that country for themselves, when Blacks were seizing that country for themselves, the violence of the Haitian revolution, the existence of the Haitian revolution, just sent basically an earthquake of fear throughout the United States. You had George Washington lamenting the violence. You had Thomas Jefferson talking about [how] he was fearful that those ideas over there, if they get here, it’s going to be fire. You had James Madison worried. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13870538","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Whites … were fleeing Haiti and were bringing their enslaved populations with them, their enslaved people with them. … [There was a fear that] the ideas that these Black Haitians would have, that somehow those ideas of revolution, those ideas of racial justice, those ideas of freedom and democracy would just metastasize throughout Virginia’s Black enslaved population and cause a revolt. You had that same fear coming out of Baltimore that then began to open up the public armory to whites saying, ‘You are justified in being armed because they’re bringing too many of these Black Haitians, these enslaved Haitians up here who have these ideas that Black people can be free.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how the Black Panthers responded to restrictions in Black people’s ability to bear arms in the 1960s\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the Black Panthers were dealing with was massive police brutality. Just beating on Black people, killing Black people at will with impunity. And the Panthers decided that they would police the police. Huey P. Newton, who was the co-founder of the Black Panthers along with Bobby Seale, … knew the law and he knew what the law said about being able to open carry weapons and the types of weapons you were able to openly carry and how far you had to stand away from the police arresting somebody or interrogating somebody. … And the police did not like having these aggressive Black men and women doing that work of policing the police. And the response was a thing called the Mulford Act, and the Mulford Act set out to ban open carrying of weapons. And it was drafted by a conservative assemblyman in California with the support and help of an NRA representative and eagerly signed by Gov. Ronald Reagan as a way to make illegal what the Panthers were legally doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sam Briger and Kayla Lattimore produced and edited the audio of this interview. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Meghan Sullivan adapted it for the web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 Fresh Air. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Historian+Uncovers+The+Racist+Roots+Of+The+2nd+Amendment&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13898175/historian-uncovers-the-racist-roots-of-the-2nd-amendment","authors":["byline_arts_13898175"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73","arts_7862"],"tags":["arts_1346","arts_3080","arts_7723"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13898176","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13887488":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13887488","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13887488","score":null,"sort":[1602632925000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"no-claudia-conway-and-gen-z-wont-save-us","title":"No, Claudia Conway and Gen Z Won't Save Us","publishDate":1602632925,"format":"standard","headTitle":"No, Claudia Conway and Gen Z Won’t Save Us | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>By now, regardless of how old you are or what your political affiliations are, you’ve probably heard of Claudia Conway. Like other teens, the outspoken 15-year-old uses \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@claudiamconway?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her TikTok account\u003c/a> to vent about her mom, the Trump administration and things she sees online. Unlike other teens, Claudia has 1.4 million followers, the ear of the press and the attention of mainstream news media. Not because she’s an activist or especially articulate. Rather, it’s because she’s the daughter of George and Kellyanne Conway—and her content is particularly unfiltered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia has found herself trending on Twitter four times this year—usually for documenting her turbulent relationship with her parents, especially her mom. This month, however, her “lol” and “lmao”-laden online statements were permitted even more gravity than usual, because they concerned the coronavirus outbreak in the White House. [aside postid='pop_103297']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the president’s diagnosis was revealed, Claudia posted a video of herself to TikTok, looking unimpressed, captioned: “my mom coughing all around the house after trump tested positive for covid.” The following day, she posted an image of herself wearing a mask, captioned, “update my mom has covid.” Two days later: “hey guys currently dying of covid!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Oct. 5, after Trump left hospital and tweeted, “Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life,” Conway commented on a thread: “guys lmao he’s not doing ‘better’.” Later in the day, she wrote: “he is receiving the world’s best healthcare right now… ‘don’t be afraid’ he is such a joke.” And later still: “he is so ridiculous. apparently he is doing badly lol and they are doing what they can to stabilize him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was quickly hailed as both a whistleblower and an excellent “reporter.” Especially by those exhausted by the mixed messages and contradictory information coming out of the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lorieliebig/status/1313240698162946048\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/maddenifico/status/1313261611453382657\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, she was dismissed as a disrespectful child, undeserving of anyone’s attention—including that of her parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/flowerlady61/status/1313487504725680129\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/potatoes187/status/1313351282510495744\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How we as a nation responded en masse to this shit-talking 15-year-old very much reflected how much weight we’ve become accustomed to casually piling onto Generation Z.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malala Yousafzai’s emergence in 2012 signaled that teenagers no longer had to work in activist groups to garner respect from older generations. But the narrow path Malala carved out was rapidly transformed into a highway by the wave of activism that greeted the Trump administration in 2017. And the proliferation of social media, along with a relentless 24-hour news cycle, put young campaigners in the spotlight in an unprecedented way. [aside postid='arts_13850832']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started in earnest in 2018. After 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at their school, the teenagers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were thrust onto the national stage. The teen leaders—including David Hogg, Emma González and Cameron Kasky—that emerged that February went on to organize \u003ca href=\"https://marchforourlives.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March For Our Lives\u003c/a>, a national gun control movement designed for young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg inspired a global, youth-led movement for climate action. By September, she was addressing the United Nations Climate Change Conference. “This is all wrong,” she scolded the room. “I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same month, 23-year-old Boyan Slat sailed away from San Francisco Bay to try and clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—a plan he had been hatching since the age of 16. The hopes pinned on him have been consistently hyperbolic—“\u003ca href=\"https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/boyan-slat-ocean-action-hero-on-a-new-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ocean Action Hero\u003c/a>,” one headline recently blared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been others since, like 13-year-old LGBTQ+ activist Desmond is Amazing, who was the Grand Marshall of Brooklyn’s Pride parade last year. And Isra Hirsi, who founded the U.S. Youth Climate Strike when she was 15. Let’s not forget that several of the Bay Area’s biggest Black Lives Matter marches this year were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2020/visuals/youth-protest-leaders/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">organized by teens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These young activists are inspiring, no doubt. But the adults watching them have created a narrative that these kids are going to fix national and global problems that currently seem insurmountable—thus absolving themselves of responsibility. On the flip side, glorifying youth activists as saviors has had the unintended effect of exposing them to online harassment and constant scrutiny. Which is why it seemed perfectly reasonable for adults to immediately hail Claudia Conway as both a hero and a villain. [aside postid='pop_105305']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leveling that kind of judgment on teens started in earnest with the Parkland kids. They were presented first as heroes of the gun control movement, then routinely ridiculed and harassed. David Hogg, Emma González and Cameron Kasky have all been singled out for bullying by adults who should know better including Fox News host \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/business/media/laura-ingraham-david-hogg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laura Ingraham\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/gop-candidate-who-called-teen-skinhead-lesbian-quits-race-n857861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Republican candidate Leslie Gibson\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greta Thunberg has been subjected to a stunning number of attacks, perpetrated mostly by adult men. On Fox News (one commentator referred to her as a “mentally ill Swedish child”), on the president’s Twitter account repeatedly (“\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1205100602025545730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chill Greta, Chill!\u003c/a>”), and in too many cruel memes to mention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1176931201342431234\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slat’s efforts to clean up the ocean have been dismissed and mocked repeatedly despite the enormity of the task he’s taken on. (Earlier this year, the \u003cem>Vancouver Sun\u003c/em> pondered whether or not his \u003ca href=\"https://theoceancleanup.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIls-O_7Go7AIV6h-tBh0ZDgUcEAAYASAAEgI5ofD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ocean Cleanup\u003c/a> was “\u003ca href=\"https://vancouversun.com/news/plastic-oceans-unwanted-trash-and-a-popular-but-unproven-plan-to-solve-the-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the environmental version of Fyre Fest\u003c/a>.”) Both \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/israhirsi/status/1202384424270225408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isra Hirsi\u003c/a> and Desmond the Amazing (reminder: he is 13) have received death threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth movements have always been pivotal in transforming America, generation by generation. Throughout the ’50s and ’60s, high schoolers led walk-outs over racial inequality and segregation in education. They protested the Vietnam war and voting access, and found themselves on the nightly news because of it. But never before Gen Z has there been so much focus and weight put on individual teens campaigning for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is why so many people have been able to ignore the fact that Conway, though opinionated, most frequently uses TikTok as a cry for help. Back on Sept. 15, she captioned a video: “no one believes you” “i have never abused you” “all you do is lie for attention.” The next screen read: “why would i lie you broke me.” Last week, when one user posted, “Just saw your mom on the news with out a mask on,” Conway responded: “and you wonder why i have covid.” Recent clips show her checking her blood oxygen and asking the public if she needs to go to the hospital. [aside postid='arts_13882454']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America would do well to start remembering that Claudia Conway, though intelligent, engaging and entertaining, is neither going to save us, nor bring down the government. Rather, she’s a teenager trying to navigate a very unhealthy relationship with her family. We’ve just become so accustomed to overburdening Gen Z activists with messes of prior generations’ making, we think nothing of piling them onto her too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The narrative that Gen Z is going to save the world has been used like an emotional floatation device for adults during this entire presidency. And it is true that this generation is particularly savvy, organized, driven and smart. But if we want them to make a change that badly, it’s time we start leaving them alone. They’ve already proven that they do much better without our interference, and they certainly don’t deserve our abuse.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Adults hail teen activists as either heroes or villains, exposing them to abuse and saddling them with unreasonable expectations.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705019992,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1390},"headData":{"title":"No, Claudia Conway and Gen Z Won't Save Us | KQED","description":"Adults hail teen activists as either heroes or villains, exposing them to abuse and saddling them with unreasonable expectations.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"No, Claudia Conway and Gen Z Won't Save Us","datePublished":"2020-10-13T23:48:45.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T00:39:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Commentary","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/arts/category/commentary","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13887488/no-claudia-conway-and-gen-z-wont-save-us","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>By now, regardless of how old you are or what your political affiliations are, you’ve probably heard of Claudia Conway. Like other teens, the outspoken 15-year-old uses \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@claudiamconway?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her TikTok account\u003c/a> to vent about her mom, the Trump administration and things she sees online. Unlike other teens, Claudia has 1.4 million followers, the ear of the press and the attention of mainstream news media. Not because she’s an activist or especially articulate. Rather, it’s because she’s the daughter of George and Kellyanne Conway—and her content is particularly unfiltered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia has found herself trending on Twitter four times this year—usually for documenting her turbulent relationship with her parents, especially her mom. This month, however, her “lol” and “lmao”-laden online statements were permitted even more gravity than usual, because they concerned the coronavirus outbreak in the White House. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_103297","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the president’s diagnosis was revealed, Claudia posted a video of herself to TikTok, looking unimpressed, captioned: “my mom coughing all around the house after trump tested positive for covid.” The following day, she posted an image of herself wearing a mask, captioned, “update my mom has covid.” Two days later: “hey guys currently dying of covid!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Oct. 5, after Trump left hospital and tweeted, “Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life,” Conway commented on a thread: “guys lmao he’s not doing ‘better’.” Later in the day, she wrote: “he is receiving the world’s best healthcare right now… ‘don’t be afraid’ he is such a joke.” And later still: “he is so ridiculous. apparently he is doing badly lol and they are doing what they can to stabilize him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was quickly hailed as both a whistleblower and an excellent “reporter.” Especially by those exhausted by the mixed messages and contradictory information coming out of the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1313240698162946048"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1313261611453382657"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, she was dismissed as a disrespectful child, undeserving of anyone’s attention—including that of her parents.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1313487504725680129"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1313351282510495744"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>How we as a nation responded en masse to this shit-talking 15-year-old very much reflected how much weight we’ve become accustomed to casually piling onto Generation Z.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malala Yousafzai’s emergence in 2012 signaled that teenagers no longer had to work in activist groups to garner respect from older generations. But the narrow path Malala carved out was rapidly transformed into a highway by the wave of activism that greeted the Trump administration in 2017. And the proliferation of social media, along with a relentless 24-hour news cycle, put young campaigners in the spotlight in an unprecedented way. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13850832","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started in earnest in 2018. After 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at their school, the teenagers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were thrust onto the national stage. The teen leaders—including David Hogg, Emma González and Cameron Kasky—that emerged that February went on to organize \u003ca href=\"https://marchforourlives.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March For Our Lives\u003c/a>, a national gun control movement designed for young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months later, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg inspired a global, youth-led movement for climate action. By September, she was addressing the United Nations Climate Change Conference. “This is all wrong,” she scolded the room. “I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same month, 23-year-old Boyan Slat sailed away from San Francisco Bay to try and clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—a plan he had been hatching since the age of 16. The hopes pinned on him have been consistently hyperbolic—“\u003ca href=\"https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/boyan-slat-ocean-action-hero-on-a-new-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ocean Action Hero\u003c/a>,” one headline recently blared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been others since, like 13-year-old LGBTQ+ activist Desmond is Amazing, who was the Grand Marshall of Brooklyn’s Pride parade last year. And Isra Hirsi, who founded the U.S. Youth Climate Strike when she was 15. Let’s not forget that several of the Bay Area’s biggest Black Lives Matter marches this year were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2020/visuals/youth-protest-leaders/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">organized by teens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These young activists are inspiring, no doubt. But the adults watching them have created a narrative that these kids are going to fix national and global problems that currently seem insurmountable—thus absolving themselves of responsibility. On the flip side, glorifying youth activists as saviors has had the unintended effect of exposing them to online harassment and constant scrutiny. Which is why it seemed perfectly reasonable for adults to immediately hail Claudia Conway as both a hero and a villain. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_105305","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leveling that kind of judgment on teens started in earnest with the Parkland kids. They were presented first as heroes of the gun control movement, then routinely ridiculed and harassed. David Hogg, Emma González and Cameron Kasky have all been singled out for bullying by adults who should know better including Fox News host \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/business/media/laura-ingraham-david-hogg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laura Ingraham\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/gop-candidate-who-called-teen-skinhead-lesbian-quits-race-n857861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Republican candidate Leslie Gibson\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greta Thunberg has been subjected to a stunning number of attacks, perpetrated mostly by adult men. On Fox News (one commentator referred to her as a “mentally ill Swedish child”), on the president’s Twitter account repeatedly (“\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1205100602025545730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chill Greta, Chill!\u003c/a>”), and in too many cruel memes to mention.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1176931201342431234"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Slat’s efforts to clean up the ocean have been dismissed and mocked repeatedly despite the enormity of the task he’s taken on. (Earlier this year, the \u003cem>Vancouver Sun\u003c/em> pondered whether or not his \u003ca href=\"https://theoceancleanup.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIls-O_7Go7AIV6h-tBh0ZDgUcEAAYASAAEgI5ofD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ocean Cleanup\u003c/a> was “\u003ca href=\"https://vancouversun.com/news/plastic-oceans-unwanted-trash-and-a-popular-but-unproven-plan-to-solve-the-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the environmental version of Fyre Fest\u003c/a>.”) Both \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/israhirsi/status/1202384424270225408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isra Hirsi\u003c/a> and Desmond the Amazing (reminder: he is 13) have received death threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth movements have always been pivotal in transforming America, generation by generation. Throughout the ’50s and ’60s, high schoolers led walk-outs over racial inequality and segregation in education. They protested the Vietnam war and voting access, and found themselves on the nightly news because of it. But never before Gen Z has there been so much focus and weight put on individual teens campaigning for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which is why so many people have been able to ignore the fact that Conway, though opinionated, most frequently uses TikTok as a cry for help. Back on Sept. 15, she captioned a video: “no one believes you” “i have never abused you” “all you do is lie for attention.” The next screen read: “why would i lie you broke me.” Last week, when one user posted, “Just saw your mom on the news with out a mask on,” Conway responded: “and you wonder why i have covid.” Recent clips show her checking her blood oxygen and asking the public if she needs to go to the hospital. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13882454","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America would do well to start remembering that Claudia Conway, though intelligent, engaging and entertaining, is neither going to save us, nor bring down the government. Rather, she’s a teenager trying to navigate a very unhealthy relationship with her family. We’ve just become so accustomed to overburdening Gen Z activists with messes of prior generations’ making, we think nothing of piling them onto her too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The narrative that Gen Z is going to save the world has been used like an emotional floatation device for adults during this entire presidency. And it is true that this generation is particularly savvy, organized, driven and smart. But if we want them to make a change that badly, it’s time we start leaving them alone. They’ve already proven that they do much better without our interference, and they certainly don’t deserve our abuse.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13887488/no-claudia-conway-and-gen-z-wont-save-us","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_75"],"tags":["arts_2767","arts_9387","arts_3080","arts_2391","arts_8017","arts_1553"],"featImg":"arts_13887867","label":"source_arts_13887488"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. 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