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...
07.122018September 10, 2019
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...