Criticism

REVIEW: The Body Is Not An Apology

Radical self-love, that feeling of embracing your body as is, seems to be for the…

Book Review: “Bear Witness to QTPOC Brilliance”

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

“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…

Review: White-eye Bird – The Vegetarian by Han Kang

‘Shorn of its ceremony the body is, at best, a torn, riven thing – covered…

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: The Uses of Anger

Like many of you, I’ve felt so much anger–rage even–over the last week. I keep…

Solange and Her Dance

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

Microeditorial: Haunting Hamilton

You want to see the musical, Hamilton, but can’t afford see it in person (you’re…

Book Review: Rita Indiana’s La Mucama de Omicunlé

In La Mucama de Omicunlé (Omikunle’s Maid) Rita Indiana Hernández approaches the epistemological marriage of…

Microeditorial: Tending to Our Daughters’ Gardens by Toni Powell-Young and Aisha S. Durham

The language of sustainability is familiar to us even if the word feels foreign. Beneath…