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  I am not poignant. I am losing nuance. I beat you over the head.…

Book Review: “Bear Witness to QTPOC Brilliance”

When the apocalypse arrives as revolution or colony collapse, when electricity fizzles and we’re all…

Learning to Live with Outsider-ness: An Interview with Geeta Kothari

As part of the Aster(ix) in Alphabet City Series for City of Asylum Clarissa León spoke…

“I Want Not to Be Spoken To,” A Review of Gabriel Jesiolowski’s As Burning Leaves

It’s hard not to begin with the arresting cover image of Gabriel Jesiolowski’s As Burning…

Lost the Root

  Spirit, grow like flamboyán, a blaze blooming red. Everything red. Black and brown, mancha…

Excerpt: All the Agents & Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands

I arrive to find Keetah standing at her kitchen counter, opening a bag of Maseca.…

The Chemist’s Wife

In the summer that my neighbor’s husband got stopped and sent to Rikers, I rode…

Angie Cruz Interviews Laura Pegram about Kweli journal

  And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet…

Ten Must Reads for Mama Day

In honor of those who mother and have been mothered, Aster(ix) editors pick their favorite Mama…

Firelei Báez, Phoebe Boswell, Sujatha Fernandes – Aster(Ix) Journal | May 2017

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