Slag Glass City

08/07/2024

‘Be a good tourist,’ I tossed over my shoulder, with venom. I was hoping it would land like a wound, but it probably just ricocheted off like a bad free throw, landed in the gutter with the cigarette butts. They probably didn’t realize ‘tourist’ is a dirty word around here, they probably assumed I was a tourist too…” Jax Connelly’s “Sidewalks Should be Treated Like Streets” is available now in the SLAG GLASS CITY. https://www.slagglasscity.org/essaymemoirlyric/walkers-in-the-city/sidewalks-should-be-treated-like-streets/

03/07/2024

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY, take an oddly satisfying evening walk through the nation's Capital in Jax Connelly’s “Sidewalks Should be Treated Like Streets.”
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02/07/2024

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Jax Connelly walks through Washington D.C. toward the end of a relationship in “Sidewalks Should be Treated Like Streets.”

by Jax Connelly “Look,” C’s whispering, nudging me. “They’re on a date. An early one.” I’m still holding the large plastic cup of Coke Zero I bought at the movie theater. I don’t like supporting the manufacture of single-use plastics, but when I saw it in an ad on the big screen, tha...

08/06/2024

“It seems that everybody in Minneapolis has a story about First Avenue. Mine is set in the hot summer of 1988. My girlfriend at the time and I were at a bit of a crossroads or, more precisely, an uncontrolled intersection. We agreed upon one thing: we loved k.d. lang.” Ellen Lansky’s “Spinning Records: A Review of Joanna McNaney Stein’s INGÉNUE” is available now in the SLAG GLASS CITY.

05/06/2024

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Ellen Lansky reflects on representation and record shops in “Spinning Records: A Review of Joanna McNaney Stein’s INGÉNUE.”

03/06/2024

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Ellen Lansky listens her way through k.d.lang’s emotional locations in “Spinning Records: A Review of Joanna McNaney Stein’s INGÉNUE.”

31/05/2024

“You can’t stand still without feeling your equilibrium’s off. Blame everything: bright light, the wildfire smoke drifting over the city, the delighted shrieks of children at the daycare next door. You are convinced you can feel the world turn.” Rachel B. Moore's “The Spin” is available now in the SLAG GLASS CITY.

29/05/2024

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY, we leave lockdown and reconnect on the streets of San Francisco in Rachel B. Moore's “The Spin.”

27/05/2024

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Rachel B. Moore traverses San Francisco’s late-pandemic equilibrium in “The Spin.”

24/05/2024

“Transitory spaces have a messy human energy that is perpetually in the present yet continually altering. They are endlessly interesting, living places where there is a great deal of beauty and fragility.” Leah Oates' “Transitory Space, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NYC” is available now in the SLAG GLASS CITY.

22/05/2024

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Leah Oates explores urban and natural locations transformed by the passage of time in “Transitory Space, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NYC.”

20/05/2024

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, the beauty of nature subsists within the constant movement of the city in the latest installment of Leah Oates photo series, “Transitory Space, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NYC.”

18/05/2024

“The juxtaposition of natural beauty and rapid development raises complex issues, challenging me to understand my place in this evolving landscape.” Cai Lima’s “GENTRIFICATION IN SERRA GAÚCHA” is available now in the SLAG GLASS CITY

URGENT HELP NEEDED. Devastating floods have hit Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, leaving the state with at least 95 dead, 131 missing, and 372 injured. Two hundred and eighty one municipalities are affected, with over 115,000 forced to leave their homes. The state's governor, Eduardo Leite, called it a "historic disaster" and emphasized the need for immediate assistance.

In Porto Alegre, Brazil’s southernmost metropolis with over 4 million people, rescuers are facing immense challenges, navigating over 17 feet of water—higher than the previous record, during the historic flood of 1941. Rescue teams are working tirelessly, but they need our support! Please consider donating to help those affected. Every contribution counts! Find the link to the news story and donation details in the bio of on Instagram.

Let's come together to help those in need and spread awareness about the impact of extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change.

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15/05/2024

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY, photographs illustrate the price of utopia in Cai Lima’s “GENTRIFICATION IN SERRA GAÚCHA”

URGENT HELP NEEDED. Devastating floods have hit Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, leaving the state with at least 95 dead, 131 missing, and 372 injured. Two hundred and eighty one municipalities are affected, with over 115,000 forced to leave their homes. The state's governor, Eduardo Leite, called it a "historic disaster" and emphasized the need for immediate assistance.

In Porto Alegre, Brazil’s southernmost metropolis with over 4 million people, rescuers are facing immense challenges, navigating over 17 feet of water—higher than the previous record, during the historic flood of 1941. Rescue teams are working tirelessly, but they need our support! Please consider donating to help those affected. Every contribution counts! Find the link to the news story and donation details through the QR Code on the second image or in the bio of on Instagram.

Let's come together to help those in need and spread awareness about the impact of extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change.

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13/05/2024

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Cai Lima grapples with gentrification and the transformation of space in “GENTRIFICATION IN SERRA GAÚCHA”


URGENT HELP NEEDED. Devastating floods have hit Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, leaving the state with at least 95 dead, 131 missing, and 372 injured. Two hundred and eighty one municipalities are affected, with over 115,000 forced to leave their homes. The state's governor, Eduardo Leite, called it a "historic disaster" and emphasized the need for immediate assistance.

In Porto Alegre, Brazil’s southernmost metropolis with over 4 million people, rescuers are facing immense challenges, navigating over 17 feet of water—higher than the previous record, during the historic flood of 1941. Rescue teams are working tirelessly, but they need our support! Please consider donating to help those affected. Every contribution counts! Find the link to the news story and donation details in the bio of on Instagram.

Let's come together to help those in need and spread awareness about the impact of extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change.

́cha

10/05/2024

“What I mean is I feel like I can do anything good. Like I’m a good mother who can admit out loud that she worries about being a bad mother. Like I can let someone do something for me, and that doesn’t make me weak.” Maggie Andersen’s “Carol’s Chair” is available now in the SLAG GLASS CITY.

08/05/2024

This week in the SLAG GLASS CITY three women’s lives intersect at a neighborhood salon in “Carol’s Chair.”

06/05/2024

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY, Maggie Andersen gets her hair done in “Carol’s Chair.”

30/04/2024

The SLAG GLASS CITY is celebrating 10 years tomorrow on May Day! Join us in-person or via Zoom at 5:30-8:30 for a special reading from 20 of our authors. The first 50 in-person attendees will receive a commemorative key to the SLAG GLASS CITY.

28/04/2024

Celebrate 10 years of SLAG GLASS CITY with us on May Day, May 1st from 5:30-8:30pm for a special anniversary reading! Featuring 20 authors sharing excerpts in-person or over Zoom. First 50 in-person attendees will receive a commemorative key to the SLAG GLASS CITY.

25/04/2024

This May Day, SLAG GLASS CITY is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special reading event featuring 20 authors in-person or via Zoom. Register now to secure your spot! The first 50 in-person attendees will receive a commemorative key to the SLAG GLASS CITY.

16/04/2024

The SLAG GLASS CITY is celebrating the 10 year anniversary with a special reading from 20 of our authors! Join us May Day (May 1st) in-person or via Zoom for this special event from 5:30-8:30pm at Levan 100, DePaul University. The first 50 in-person attendees to register will receive a special commemorative key!

14/04/2024

Join us in-person or via Zoom on May Day (May 1st) to celebrate 10 years of SLAG GLASS CITY! The first 50 in-person attendees to register will receive a commemorative key to the SLAG GLASS CITY, register for Zoom link in bio.

12/04/2024

Save the date! May Day (May 1st) the SLAG GLASS CITY is hosting a 10 year anniversary reading, featuring 20 authors sharing excerpts. Join us in-person at Levan 100, DePaul University Campus or virtually over Zoom from 5:30-8:30pm.

02/04/2024

The ARCHIVAL CITY can be found down the city streets! Tell us about yours by submitting to our special call at the SLAG GLASS CITY open now until April 15th!

27/03/2024

Where are the cities beneath the cities? Tell us by submitting to our special call the ARCHIVAL CITY open now until April 15th! Link in bio.

15/03/2024

WRITE US A CITY where parks are built over factory ruins, where injustice shows up red on the map, where fragments in library vaults await our reassembly. ARCHIVAL CITY special submission call, OPEN NOW until April 15th. Link in bio to submit!

How and when does the city remember? Where are the cities beneath the cities? Who haunts the city? Why does the city that used to be influence what the city could someday become?  THE ARCHIVAL CITY is the metropolis of marks and traces, where the past whispers through the present and the future is ...

13/03/2024

The ARCHIVAL CITY is where photographs show forgotten faces, where power crouches between the lines of office memos, where the layers of street pavings hold ancestral footprints. SLAG GLASS CITY is accepting special theme submissions starting THIS FRIDAY March 15th until April 15th. Link in bio to submit!

12/03/2024

The ARCHIVAL CITY is imprinted with old telephone booths, neon signs, livelihoods of lost professions, recipe lists from backyard parties, q***r friendships, and bars no wider than hallways. SLAG GLASS CITY is accepting special theme submissions starting THIS FRIDAY March 15th-April 15th. Link in bio.

09/03/2024

“Here, you are still the you who does not know what’s to come. Still just a daughter, a friend. A human humming with the hope and terror of what if?” Rebecca Wallwork’s “Ektopia” is available now in the SLAG GLASS CITY.

by Rebecca Wallwork 810 7th AvenueOn this block, there is a Chase bank, and a deli, and Rosie O’Grady’s saloon. Across the street, a Sheraton. There is a stop for the M20 bus and, on the corner, a cart selling hot dogs. But you are heading to the 21st floor of 810 7th Avenue, to the clinic where...