“Who but a horizon so keenly feels how we are kept at each other’s distance?” asks writer and interdisciplinary artist Lehua M. Taitano in the...
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What Happens When You Switch a Character’s Gender?
Once I wrote a story about a woman who grows a baby in a pot. Thumbelina-style. The woman throws out a dead cactus in a...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Jacqui Germain
How do you practice self-care when writing about a difficult subject matter? What brings you joy? I’ll answer the question about joy first: laughing. Laughing...
VIDA Reviews! Resistance and Hope, edited by Alice Wong
After the polls closed for the 2016 presidential election, my husband and I strapped our soon-to-be-one-year-old daughter into her high chair and turned her towards...
Body of a Poem: Multiple Voices
Writing about identity is a pressure for me as a person of color, a queer person, and a queer person of color. So often it...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Raquel Salas Rivera
How do you practice self-care when writing about a difficult subject matter? What brings you joy? This has been a question I’ve had on my...
VIDA Reads with Writers – Lisa D. DeNeal!
What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today? I am currently reading Whiskey & Ribbons by Lessa Cross-Smith. A friend...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Safia Elhillo
How do you practice self-care when writing about difficult subject matters? What brings you joy? I think I am very gentle with myself—sometimes at the...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 3 — Dorothy Chan
How does performance fit into your writing? I’m not a “theatrical” performer when it comes to my poetry readings, but my readings do have a...
Poetry As Offering: To Practice In Poetry & Live In The Body-Mind
Chicago is my hometown, I grew up here as a poor brown queer awkward butch girl, and snuck into open mics at Aloha Café to...