Asterisms

Difficult Women
On Being a Difficult Woman: Roxane Gay, Salma Hayek, Jessica Williams, and Radical Discomfort

When I was sixteen years old, the National Hispanic Institute nominated me to attend a…

Remedios: Breaking the Frame: Dreaming Into the Urgent Now

After years of high profile, extra-judicial killings of black people, I was struck by how…

Two Poems

  Oops!   Careful we have to be : Opening the door , Getting our…

Missing America: On Leonard Cohen

In the summer of 1991, I took a long bus ride from Kaniv in the…

Two Drawings In Response to Viramontes’ Novel, Cemetery Boys.

While listening to Helena Maria Viramontes read from her book, Cemetery Boys at Alphabet City/City of Asylum…

Call Me Soft

On a warm August night in Brussels, a curator, Orient, of feminist inclination, dressed up…

Season of the Witch: On Mirrors, Dreams, Astrology and Survival — A Conversation with Wendy C. Ortiz

Born and raised in Los Angeles, where she now lives again, Wendy C. Ortiz is…

Pussy, Redefined

As in cat, a feline word suggesting paws and claws.  Not to be confused with vagina, its clinical cousin scraped…

Solange and Her Dance

“I shall dance all my life. […] I would like to die breathless, spent, at…

Annette Lawrence on Numbers, Ancestors and Process

“Theory #6,” acrylic, graphite, ink on paper, 48 x 48 in, 2002