--- title: "Aja Arnold - Mainline" language: "en-US" source_url: "https://www.mainlineatl.com/author/ajers/page/17/" content_type: "text/markdown" --- [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Breaking2.jpg)](/breaking-emergency-motion-filed-against-georgias-next-massive-illegal-voter-purge/) [ Dec 16 2019 ](/breaking-emergency-motion-filed-against-georgias-next-massive-illegal-voter-purge/) ## [BREAKING: Emergency motion filed against Georgia’s next massive illegal voter purge](/breaking-emergency-motion-filed-against-georgias-next-massive-illegal-voter-purge/) Ah, the holiday season is here. While many become consumed in holiday shopping and planning, finals at school, fallen under the crunch of deadlines, etc., the State of Georgia has been just as busy preparing to execute yet another massive […] [ BREAKING: Emergency motion filed against Georgia’s next massive illegal voter purge Read More »](/breaking-emergency-motion-filed-against-georgias-next-massive-illegal-voter-purge/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Voting-Rights-Town-Hall-Ellenwood-11-7-19-0318-1024x683.jpg)](/targeted-hits-notes-from-voting-rights-town-hall/) [ Nov 13 2019 ](/targeted-hits-notes-from-voting-rights-town-hall/) ## [TARGETED HITS: NOTES FROM VOTING RIGHTS TOWN HALL](/targeted-hits-notes-from-voting-rights-town-hall/) Just over a year since Georgia’s excruciating gubernatorial race brought in its ultimate results—former Secretary of State Brian Kemp securing just over 54,000 votes more than former Minority Leader Stacey Abrams—Rep. Bee Nguyen of House District 89 hosted a voting [ TARGETED HITS: NOTES FROM VOTING RIGHTS TOWN HALL Read More »](/targeted-hits-notes-from-voting-rights-town-hall/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/NOIC3.jpg)](/no-one-is-coming/) [ Oct 31 2019 ](/no-one-is-coming/) ## [NO ONE IS COMING](/no-one-is-coming/) But it’s fine—you’re already here One morning in fall 2018, I woke up plagued by dissolution and with an existential hangover. I’d spent the previous night chainsmoking, asking the big, ultimately unimportant questions of why any of us are here [ NO ONE IS COMING Read More »](/no-one-is-coming/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Kenneth1-1.jpg)](/immigration-we-are-all-affected/) [ Oct 28 2019 ](/immigration-we-are-all-affected/) ## [IMMIGRATION: WE ARE ALL AFFECTED](/immigration-we-are-all-affected/) Originally published in Atlanta Pride Guide, October 2019. Attention, brothers and sisters: we have a crisis. I write this over 50 years since the revolutionary Stonewall uprising: a milestone that sparked a movement that fights to ensure no one would [ IMMIGRATION: WE ARE ALL AFFECTED Read More »](/immigration-we-are-all-affected/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/NRCSSST_1-e1571634626256.jpeg)](/i-was-there-nrcssst-plays-first-show-at-masquerade/) [ Oct 21 2019 ](/i-was-there-nrcssst-plays-first-show-at-masquerade/) ## [NRCSSST plays first show at Masquerade](/i-was-there-nrcssst-plays-first-show-at-masquerade/) The Coathangers\’ Stephanie Luke and PLS PLS\’ frontman Dan Dixon raise the bar in new project NRCSSST This is officially up for your radar: Atlanta band NRCSSST—a new experiment featuring members of PLS PLS, the Coathangers, and Snowden—played its first [ NRCSSST plays first show at Masquerade Read More »](/i-was-there-nrcssst-plays-first-show-at-masquerade/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Lee-Bains-3-1.jpeg)](/i-was-there-lee-bains-iii-and-the-glory-fires/) [ Oct 19 2019 ](/i-was-there-lee-bains-iii-and-the-glory-fires/) ## [Show Review: Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires](/i-was-there-lee-bains-iii-and-the-glory-fires/) The powers that be tell us the patriarchy is good for us. Lee Bains has some words (and songs) about that. Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires rolled through—ahem, blazed through—the EARL in Atlanta last night along with openers [ Show Review: Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires Read More »](/i-was-there-lee-bains-iii-and-the-glory-fires/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Exact-match-e1571142245724.jpeg)](/ex-post-facto-abrams-vs-kemp-2018/) [ Oct 15 2019 ](/ex-post-facto-abrams-vs-kemp-2018/) ## [Ex post facto: Stacey Abrams vs. Brian Kemp, 2018](/ex-post-facto-abrams-vs-kemp-2018/) How Brian Kemp was able to steal Georgia’s gubernatorial election from Stacey Abrams CONTENT WARNING: Due to the serious and important nature of the topics discussed, this article is very dense. It is rather thorough, contains legal jargon, and is [ Ex post facto: Stacey Abrams vs. Brian Kemp, 2018 Read More »](/ex-post-facto-abrams-vs-kemp-2018/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Free-Humanity_2.jpg)](/interview-free-humanity/) [ Oct 11 2019 ](/interview-free-humanity/) ## [INTERVIEW: FREE HUMANITY](/interview-free-humanity/) “The biggest delusion and marketing scheme is if you work hard enough you can live the American Dream. But one has to be asleep to live that dream.” @freehumanity Free Humanity is a street artist based in Los Angeles who [ INTERVIEW: FREE HUMANITY Read More »](/interview-free-humanity/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/SHEPHERDS_Featured.jpg)](/shepherds-savor-your-sons/) [ Oct 7 2019 ](/shepherds-savor-your-sons/) ## [Shepherds: Savor Your Sons](/shepherds-savor-your-sons/) ATL INDIE ROCK BAND SHEPHERDS TACKLES ANXIETY, TOXIC MASCULINITY IN NEW ALBUM It seems like it’s been lightyears since the days of dancing at rock shows, getting our palms dirty and heads banged in mosh pits. I wistfully recall a [ Shepherds: Savor Your Sons Read More »](/shepherds-savor-your-sons/) [![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SaraNikema-DGP-1-e1567785478762-1-1024x512.jpeg)](/i-was-there-democratic-party-of-georgia-panel-sept-4-2019/) [ Sep 6 2019 ](/i-was-there-democratic-party-of-georgia-panel-sept-4-2019/) ## [Democratic Party of Georgia hosts voter suppression panel, Sept. 4](/i-was-there-democratic-party-of-georgia-panel-sept-4-2019/) This article was originally published on Sept. 4, 2019. It was updated to reflect a correction of a misspelling of Rep. David Dreyer\’s name. The Democratic Party of Georgia (DPG) hosted a panel at Ohio River South offices on Wed., [ Democratic Party of Georgia hosts voter suppression panel, Sept. 4 Read More »](/i-was-there-democratic-party-of-georgia-panel-sept-4-2019/)