If I were asked to make a list of the podcasts I listen to over and over again, almost all of them would be written...
Content note: this piece discusses the trauma and minimization of sexual misconduct In the introduction of Not That Bad, Roxane Gay begins, “When I was...
nala-e-bebaak / نالۂ_بیباک (noun, urdu): an audacious sorrow The first signs of verbal violence emerged from a constant comparison between his own literary outputs v/s mine. There...
Late Summer, 2016 It’s been a long, cool Portland summer and goose bumps are, at this point, a familiar friend to my southern-born body....
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...
In 2014, I started my first screenplay out of anger. The Michigan Daily, my campus’ newspaper, had released a story on how the University of...
I. October 5, 2017 It’s hard to say when my work was first called Plathian. It certainly could have been during a senior year college...
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...
I remember it like it was today because it was yesterday, maybe this week, this month, or I’m not sure. I remember a group of...
To put it simply, being an editor is difficult—and especially so when you are dealing with work that is crucial, urgent, and traumatic. As an...
