Letter of the Week
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The files that were released do more than list names. They show a pattern. A long one. A pattern of very powerful people moving through the “island situation,” the flights, the parties, and the private visits without anyone stepping in to ask the most basic questions. It is not about guilt by association. It is…
Meet the woman behind the mission
Gemma Flora Ortwerth (she/her) is a writer, artist, and social work graduate student based in Baltimore. She is completing her MSW at Capella University, with a concentration on trauma-informed and disability-centered care.
Her work approaches art as activism, spanning multiple forms including writing, digital media, and physical drawings and paintings. She is the author of Reparations, Not Rhetoric and The Seeker and the Seven Animals, with fiction forthcoming in Sinister Wisdom. Her story Drowned Angels was awarded Story of the Month by Flash Phantoms, and her essays, books, and visual art have reached wide audiences across platforms such as Medium and Tumblr.
At the core of her work is the belief that creativity is more than expression. It is a tool for collective care, a challenge to silence, and a way to spark systemic change through imagination and storytelling.
Gemma Ortwerth 