Art Is Fear
Exploring what it means to be a good American and to feel like you belong
Philippa Hughes
Creating space for conversations to transform society. Exploring what it means to be American. Recovering lawyer, public speaker, art fanatic philippahughes.com
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Mangos: Nature’s Lorazepam
Last week, I visited my mom at a lovely temple nestled in Northern Thailand. This region of Thailand isn’t a place you’ll find in typical…
The City of Light
Next time someone asks me why I keep going back to Paris when there is so much more of the world I have yet to explore, I’ll show them this…
My favorite amendment!
An American was arrested in Thailand yesterday for violating the lèse-majesté law, which forbids criticizing the royal family. The penalty…
People over profit
The Kennedy Center cut the Social Impact program yesterday. As a Social Practice Resident in this projects, I had been working on two…
Practice what you preach
When JD Vance was booed at the Kennedy Center last week, I would have joined in had I been there. Yet as I reflected, I questioned whether…
Back To School
One of the things I loved most about college was the conversations. Sometimes my hallmates and I would sit in the hallway in our pajamas…
Rails, resistance, resilience
Remembering the time I visited this Instagram-famous place in Hanoi where you can sit at a cafe alongside train tracks and watch a train…
Income inequality threatens our humanity
During a recent conversation I organized with folks from across the political spectrum, we disagreed on the question of income inequality…
Fight for beauty
This is how we resist — by creating beauty that connects us, by building spaces that bring us together, by tending to hope even in the…
Beauty is what we are fighting for
I gave a Lassie’s Toast for Burns day last weekend!
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