Talking to Ed about The Big Book of Exit Strategies
I see all the tiny interventions – the gun points, but doesn’t fire, the woman chokes but doesn’t die, the chain of the poem loops dangerously around her neck. What does it mean to survive? […]
Essay
Let Me Get Carefree Unless It Means I Live In This Political Body And Everything Is Always On Fire Or How I Went To A Santigold Concert To Get Carefree Anyway
It’s a Sunday evening, unseasonably warm for April in Chicago, and I’m standing in line with my partner to see Santigold (read: to get my life). The tickets were $30, and before my edges were snatched by Beyonce and Rihanna, Santigold’s clap back and riot-like anthems amplified the kind of woman and artist I wanted to be. I needed to get away. […]
On THE TURNER HOUSE by Angela Flournoy
Sooner or later, all families must reckon with the ghosts of their own history, with the ancestry that binds each member to each other and defines them all. […]
In Support Of: A Statement Against Abusive Behavior in Our Creative Community
We are a group of Black writers and artists who are Men or people with Male Privilege (MMP). We stand against violence against women. We write in public defense of all those who endured abuse or silencing by the very communities built to protect them. […]
On L. Lamar Wilson’s “Legion: Human Immunodeficiency Virus”
by Evan Coday Kleekamp
Imagine a body. This body is a container. It carries a virus. This virus multiplies, it establishes itself in any fitting container. In this case, the virus is HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus; the human body its fitting container. […]