Will you be voting in the midterm elections this November?

Yes! And imma take this opening to urge all eligible voters in the U.S. to do the same. Especially my fellow youngins. For the 2016 presidential election, youth voter turnout was only 48% and in the last midterm elections the voter turnout FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, REGARDLESS OF AGE, was only 36.4% (the lowest turnout since 1942). Among young people the percentage of voters who participated in the most recent midterm election was a pitiful 21.5%. Please please please do not let yourselves be paralyzed my fatalism. Voting is your civic responsibility. You owe your vote, not only to yourself, but to all those who struggled, suffered, and died so that all Americans, regardless of gender, race, class, or creed could participate in our democracy, as well as to the many in our country who remain disenfranchised. 

Joe Green

Letter from a Dog Before Troy

Dear Penelope,
It’s windy here. Nine years in a tent on the beach.
Ulysses says they know what they’re doing.
Right.
Nine years and for what?
What’s nine years to them?
Most of my life.
I’m tired. Don’t even ask me about the gods.
There’s a limit to loyalty.
But you already know that.
I know about the puppies.
You should have told me.
She told me, of course.
I don’t care.
Just get them out of Ithaca.
By the time you read this
I’ll be gone. I have..what..four more years?
Going to someplace where there are no men.
No gods.
Maybe a few rabbits.

Sarah Lucas. Bunny Gets Snookered #1, 1997. Tan tights, plastic and chrome chair, steel clamp, kapok stuffing, wire, 106 x 82 x 81.5 cm. Copyright the artist, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London.

and

Louise Bourgeois, Hold Up, 1989, Suspender sewn on paper: 10 ½ x 9 ¼" (26.7 x 23.5 cm)