Join the Slag Glass City in celebrating our ten year anniversary with a special May Day reading event! On May 1st, from 5:30pm-8:30pm CDT 2024, the event will highlight essays and art selected fr...
by Rebecca Wallwork 810 7th AvenueOn this block, there is a Chase bank, and a deli, and Rosie O’Grady’s saloon. Across the street, a Sheraton. There is a stop for the M20 bus and, on the corn...
https://www.slagglasscity.org/essaymemoirlyric/intimate-graffiti/ektopia/
by Angus Woodward This is your city, a place where the people around you—your 220,000 neighbors—live, work, think, breathe. That’s the Mississippi River on the left, the big sporty universi...
https://www.slagglasscity.org/dispatches/after-slag/city-portrait/
How and when does the city remember? Where are the cities beneath the cities? Who haunts the city? Why does the city that used to be influence what the city could someday become? THE ARCHIVAL C...
https://www.slagglasscity.org/urban-folios/slag-glass-happenings/archival-city/
2023 CITY OUT OF TIMEEDITORIAL BOARD SELECTION by Julie Silva FAÍSCAEMCHAMA (Spark in Flame) This photojournalistic documentary essay tells us the story of a popular demonstration organized nati...
https://www.slagglasscity.org/essaymemoirlyric/walkers-in-the-city/faiscaemchama/
by Ruth Gila Berger Month One: It is September 2020, fourteen weeks, eleven blocks, and one neighborhood away from where George Floyd was murdered. The three kids with their skateboards, scooters...
https://www.slagglasscity.org/dispatches/mean-streets/the-twelve-months-of-september/
by Wendy BooydeGraaff The highway thrums differently at a standstill. Traffic jams—I’ve been in plenty outside of Chicago or Detroit, even driving a minivan during rush hour in Manhattan—wh...
by Adrianne Kalfopoulou Once a port town on the Arabian Gulf that gathered trading merchants and Bedouin tribes, Dubai today is a 21st century metropolis of the digital age, an image-making map o...
https://www.slagglasscity.org/dispatches/all-the-citys-a-stage/city-out-of-desert/
by breton lalama “when i was a boy, i wasn’t” is a three-minute-and-33-second video loop documenting the ritual of a transman doing his weekly testosterone shot. visually, this piece plays ...
https://www.slagglasscity.org/essaymemoirlyric/intimate-graffiti/when-i-was-a-boy-i-wasnt/
by KY Gao For the entire fourteenth year of my existence, the sky in Beijing was rarely blue. Air pollution was on top of the National Agenda. At the People’s Representative Congressional Confe...
https://www.slagglasscity.org/dispatches/all-the-citys-a-stage/from-ashes/