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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The Intensity of The Reader: Reading as a Guest / a Thief in the Classroom / in the Wreckage
The Intensity of The Reader: Reading as a Guest / a Thief in the Classroom / in the Wreckage “I want a heart-broken university....
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...
Report From the Field: White People Love Me: Dispatches From The Token
I get along with white people really well. Growing up, they brought peppermint bark down the cul-de-sac to my parents’ house every Christmas. They smiled...
Report from the Field: Quid Pro Quo
What I remember is red wine sloshing in hotel coffee mugs. What I remember is trying to scoot out of reach of his hand, the...