Sketching the Depp v. Heard Trial

July 22, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. ☀️ Today, a creative and moving protest against gun violence right in front of Senator Ted Cruz's house in Texas, Indigenous groups in Canada ask the Vatican to return their cultural heritage objects, reviews of Robert Colescott and Doreen Lynette Garner, and more.

I also highly recommend artist and writer Isabelle Brourman's courtroom sketches and personal diaries from the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial. It's a different kind of inside look at the famous trial.

And do trigger warnings do more harm than good? Find out the answer in Required Reading.

— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief

Sketching the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard Trial

As an official observer, advocate, survivor, and citizen, I spiraled into a vertigo worsened by the adamant conjectures of fanatics and truthers. | Isabelle Brourman

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The mile-long convoy of school buses called the "NRA Children's Museum" (courtesy NRA Children's Museum)

A mile-long convoy of 52 yellow school buses, collectively called the "NRA Children's Museum," visits Ted Cruz’s house to protest gun violence.

First Nations, Métis, and Inuit leaders call on the Vatican to return their cultural belongings ahead of the pope’s visit to Canada.

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