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...
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Archive for tag: family
Literatura, Música, y (Huracán) María: Reflections from the Diaspora
“Maria’s thunder skirts flew high when she danced” —from “Siblings” in Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith “No hemos contado aún a los muertos, no sabemos nada...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Lisa Summe
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? What new or emerging writer do you want the world to know about? Who would...
Report from the Field: Home is Where the Women Are
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...
Survived or Remained Alive?: An Imagined Interview with Babushka Vera
Julia: Is it alright that I’m writing about you? Vera: Well, I suppose so. I just do not understand why you would want to. And...
Writing as a Mother Worker: A Socratic Inquiry
Things we know: Lorrie Moore is a writer of humorous fiction, and many would call her prolific and successful. Lorrie Moore is also mother to...
Other Writers’ Mothers: Some Reflections on Representing Family
I wish I could get my mother to understand the poetic logic of my storytelling -Ruth Behar That wasn’t nice -Ruth Behar’s mother Not long ago, I...
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....
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...
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