It’s time. End the draft, once and for all.

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We may be months away from ending the US military draft, once and for all.  After a court ruled that the male-only draft was unconstitutional, a Congress-appointed Commission has been studying whether or not to draft women into the US military. They make their report in March, and will likely either advocate for expanding draft […]

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What Song Will You Sing?

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This is an excerpt from Desert Song: A Girl in Exile, A Trickster Horse, and the Women Rising Up. You can get a copy here. When the first touch of lengthening shadow broke the afternoon heat, Ari Ara forced herself through a set of training exercises in the Way Between. She missed Emir and Shulen so […]

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9 Reasons To Love The Ari Ara Series

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by Leah Cook You can find the Ari Ara Series here. Just looking for the first book in the series? Visit my online store. Let me tell you what’s really cool about this series: 1. It’s written for young adults (the kid characters are ages 11-13 so far), and the kids feel *real* to that […]

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Desert Horses

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This excerpt is from Desert Song by Rivera Sun. You can get a copy here. Thank you! A stunning view spread before them. The city’s dwellings ended abruptly at a chest-high stone wall. Cliffs plummeted down a hundred feet to a narrow lake fed by the river that cascaded over the precipice in a thunderous […]

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In Fact and Fiction, Women Resist the War Machine – Rivera Sun Takes Action

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Wage Peace! Women vs. the War Machine.How women – in fact and fiction – push back against war. As I ship out stacks of books that celebrate the heroics of waging peace, I’m struck by how relevant and real these stories are. On the pages of Desert Song, women are rising up to keep a […]

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The Sleeping Giantess: My Statement Opposing the Expansion of the Military Draft

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On Nov 13th, 2019, I delivered a statement to the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service opposing the expansion of the draft to women, and demanding the ending of the draft for all genders. The NCMNPS is a court-ordered, Congress-appointed commission charged with finding out if the US public would support expanding the […]

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Desert Song Excerpt: A Lesson in The Way Between

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Desert Song: A Girl In Exile, A Trickster Horse, and the Women Rising UpYou can get a copy here. Ari Ara chewed her lower lip, thinking. The Way Between could be used physically to interrupt fights and stop violence, but that was just the beginning. There were inner and outer practices. There were individual and collective […]

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Desert Song Excerpt: The Shifting Winds

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This is an excerpt from Desert Song by Rivera Sun. You can get a copy here. The night pooled around Mahteni, magnificent in its depth. Moonlight silvered the wide plain. The wind rippled the grasses like marsh reeds quivering in the currents’ flow. Piles of rock and a few twisted old trees dotted the flat […]

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Desert Song Excerpt: Flash flood in the Slot Canyon

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An excerpt from Desert Song: A Girl In Exile, A Trickster Horse, and the Women Rising UpYou can get a copy here. At dawn, they stumbled into a slot canyon, staggering with exhaustion. There, they dismounted and walked with the horses, allowing them to rest. “If it rains, we will be trapped,” Emir cautioned, glancing […]

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Desert Song – Look Inside

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This is an excerpt from Desert Song by Rivera Sun. You can get a copy here. CHAPTER ONE. . . . .The Ancestor Windby Rivera Sun The Ancestor Wind played across the mountains. It leapt the peaks and tickled the bellies of the valleys. It was the breath of the world, from a newborn’s first […]

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