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...
It’s no accident the cover of Morgan Jerkins book has her looking up with eyes closed as though she’s imagining the positive impact of her...
1 I’d already had a bad day when I read Daphne Merkin’s now-infamous Op-Ed in The New York Times, “Publicly, We Say #MeToo. Privately, We...
Gwendolyn Brooks had already become the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry when fellow poet Marianne Moore sent this letter...
In the era before cesarean sections became the norm in my Florida Panhandle hometown, my closest kin learned an outsized, stubborn head, forceps, and a...
In a book I found years ago, Adrienne Rich is quoted as saying, “This is the work I see for us now: to insist in...
On Monday, June 6, 2016 VIDA presented Intersectionality and Activism in the Literary Landscape at Housing Works. The conversation featured writer-activists Jennifer Baker, Cat Fitzpatrick,...
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...
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...
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...