Faculty Meeting This summer at a faculty meeting, I joked with a colleague. I’ve learned how to do this as a woman in the patriarchy....
Archive for tag: unpaid labor

Guarding the Self: Some Notes from the Commute
The importance of protecting the inner life against the stresses and assaults of ordinary life seems to be on everyone’s minds lately. Vox Populi published...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Ariana Brown
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...

Compassionate Curating: On the (Literal) Cost of a Seat at the Table
Let’s begin with the obvious, the unspoken: making books costs money. More to the point, making books costs someone’s money. And, even more to the...

Report from the Field: Too Big To Fuck Up
I’ve had straight cis men do fucked up things to me. I’ve been witness to straight cis men doing fucked up things to others. It...

Compassionate Curating: Creating Black Intentional Literary Spaces
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...