Svetlana Kitto
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New York Is Oakland
From Financial District &SoHo &Union Square &Zuccotti Park about civil disobedience, Money, occupy wall street, Protest, The Politics of...Published on: 09/08/2012
Svetlana Kitto works as a writer, teacher and oral historian in New York City. Her writing has been featured in the book Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America, published by Verso Books, the New York Times Local East Village, Surface Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, food journal Put a Egg On It and Kiosk Paper. She is the project lead on an oral history of the Jewish Theological Seminary; as well as an interviewer on the Brooklyn Historical Society's Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Oral History Project, which examines the history and experiences of mixed-heritage people and families in Brooklyn. She has taught oral history and creative writing workshops at a homeless youth drop-in center in Chinatown, NYC, a high school in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, the Asian American Writers Workshop, the Brooklyn Museum, Elders Share the Arts and the Lincoln School.
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I wondered if a movie could produce the same terror decades on, even if I’d worked hard to forget the plot and its disquieting images. Like the severed ear lying in a field—a waxy dead thing, crawling with ants. And Dennis Hopper, huffing into a mask. Isabella Rossellini’s red mouth in eerie close-up. Not to […]
We moved to Greenwich Village in the mid-1980s, and at every landing of our fifth-floor tenement walk up there was a nose-full of tantalizing smells. This was in the very Italian section of the West Village, full of tenements that we called “V.I.V’s” or “Vertical Italian Villages.” The older folks, who sat out in front, chatting […]
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