Living and participating in a different culture has a tendency to wipe away the perspective from your home cultural conditioning; behavior alters, personality changes, an individual adapts and grows more tolerant and versatile.
Storming the American Bastille
There is not a crisis of crime that fills our prisons; it is unjust conviction and sentencing. Can we re-envision the prison system?
Can Our Land Be Reclaimed?
Food forests are a possible option for a more sustainable future. Ancient methods of sustainability could fulfill an element necessary in converting our ecologically unsound cities into healthy habitats for all.
Life on the Societal Fringe: Marginalization & HIV
Wilhelm Cortez on a few ways we marginalize others, and the devastating impact this can have on individuals and societies.
The Rape That Didn’t Happen
On a dark road in Kuala Lumur, Nikki learns the value of a good man.
The Spirit of Crazy Horse Lives On In Me
Is Leonard Peltier America’s Nelson Mandela?
Language Makes Our World: Choose Your Reality Carefully
Language is the way we make sense of the phenomena of our world. It empowers, limits, and hurts us.
Society is like a Stew. Be the Spoon.
Wilhelm Cortez is a performance artist. Here’s a taste of his work, and why he does it.
Masculinity Haiku: Street Corner Pluck Shave
Wilhelm Cortez with a palpable haiku about street corners, shaving and choice.