A few months ago, I spotted a video of my mother and her sisters on Facebook. The video was taken at a reunion for a...
Author archive for: rachelleyousuf
Report from the Field: The Silence of a Siren
At 8am I have students hunched over their copies of The Aeneid with questions from the night before, clarifications rising like exhalations of vapor in...
Report from the Field: About the (Queer) Author
A few weeks ago, a rejection email popped into my inbox. That’s not exactly unusual; dealing with a constant stream of rejections (punctuated, happily, with...
Women Writing Books About Film
Don’t worry. You will make it through this. Stay calm. If you are reading this, you are here. You are here because you are...
Fighting Against Ghosthood
“I met History once,” the St. Lucian writer Derek Walcott said in his sprawling poem “Schooner Flight,” “but he ain’t recognize me.” As a transgender...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Maxe Crandall!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I’ve just started Jarett Kopek’s new novel I Hate the Internet, crucial & convenient because I’m...
VIDA Reads With Writers — Iris Cushing!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Anita Loos’ 1925 novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It’s the basis for the 1953 Marilyn...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Wendy Xu!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran, by Shahrnush Parsipur (translated by Faridoun...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Carina del Valle Schorske!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Poetry was made for the wiggle room in a tight day. Today,...
VIDA Reads with Writers — Ocean Vuong!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? Christopher Soto’s Sad Girl Poems and Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs To You....
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