Throughout this week, Perigee will be featuring writing from participants of  Apogee Journal and NY Writers Coalition’s first ever Writing in the Margins Workshop. On the first night of our eight week course we asked participants to write down questions: Questions about writing, writing and justice, writing and identity.  The goal was not to answer these questions, but rather to collectively identify what we need and want to question. To begin this series, we’d like to share these questions with you.     Social Justice Do you have to be angry to create good social justice writing? What is the goal (‘point’ seems too blunt) of writing with an awareness of social justice? Is it focused on the present, the near future, or the way future future? How do I write with urgency without being pedantic? (I.e. I want to help push a socialist revolution without anyone realizing it.) How do I use my writing as a tool for social change? Should writing be prioritized over organizing? Ah!! How can we imagine what collective liberation will look like? What gets in our human way of figuring out how to redistribute wealth? What do you read to start a revolution?... Read More