Lessons In Refusing Description

Lessons In Refusing Description

N’dee, queer, nonbinary. There is a certain level of difficulty I experience in trying to remember a time when I did not feel anxiety in...

Many Englishes: On Editing and Power

Many Englishes: On Editing and Power

“Can I say this?” I would ask my American partner every time (everytime) I doubted the use of a preposition or felt like I was...

The Sword

The Sword

Vera Black walks the line as she empties her email, but in a death march kind of way. She finds herself rummaging through routine rejection...

Compassionate Curating: On the (Literal) Cost of a Seat at the Table

Compassionate Curating: On the (Literal) Cost of a Seat at the Table

Let’s begin with the obvious, the unspoken: making books costs money. More to the point, making books costs someone’s money. And, even more to the...

Compassionate Curating: Your Experience Is Valid

Compassionate Curating: Your Experience Is Valid

To put it simply, being an editor is difficult—and especially so when you are dealing with work that is crucial, urgent, and traumatic. As an...

Compassionate Curating: Editing Halal If You Hear Me

Compassionate Curating: Editing Halal If You Hear Me

Fatimah Asghar: There are as many ways of being Muslim as there are Muslims. That was the first thing that Safia and I talked about when...

Compassionate Curating: Creating Black Intentional Literary Spaces

Compassionate Curating: Creating Black Intentional Literary Spaces

I will always remember this past summer as one riddled with Black death. I was living in isolation at the time, with my parents in...

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