On Labor Day, news broke widely that White writer Michael Derrick Hudson’s poem “The Bees, the Flowers, Jesus, Ancient Tigers, Poseidon, Adam and Eve” is...
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Report from the Field: The Other Section
I attempt to practice a feminism rooted essentially in intersectionality. As a woman who has had the privilege of studying feminist theory that illuminates the...
Self Censored: When Writing is Not Right
I stopped jumping in and out of trouble. Once, it was a moving car, my father pissed; the walk home slow and only mildly treacherous....
Poetry, Community, and Reading the Body
Poetry can be a gateway to empathy, a space of shared vulnerability. It can help audiences navigate the difficult and uncomfortable by offering a creative...
Report from the Field: To Lift Off My Veil
When I began considering Anne Sexton, the American poet who could not bear the sexism of the mid-20th century Western world, and read in her...
Language of the Border
I. Growing up young, Filipina, and undocumented in Southern California, I naturally had a monstrous appetite for the various news feeds transcribing and sensationalizing the...
VIDA Roundtable on Misogynist Content and Editorial Responsibility
Recently, following the publication of a troubling poem about violence against women, a social media backlash began, along with a conversation about misogynist content, editorial...
Her Name Literally Meant Hero
Mavis Gallant died in February of this year, at the age of 92. She is one of my favorite writers. I discovered her in graduate...