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
Archive for tag: tokenism
Body of a Poem: Neither Here nor There, Asexual and Agender in the Literary World
It hurts when even my sisters look at me in the street with cold and silent eyes. I am defined as other in every group...
Report from the Field: Native Women Writers Take on the ‘Indian Du Jour’
Indian Country and, in particular, the Native writing community, is grieving today because of the scandal (known among many Native women writers for years) that...
Body of a Poem: A Collection of Unfinished Statements
I felt sexy for the first time in a long time when I first wore a binder, like my body was finally something that belonged...
Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Fatimah Asghar
What would you like to see change in the literary world, or how would you “better” American poetry? Can American poetry be “bettered?” I think...
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...