Criticism

Butterflies Appeared while reading Ways to Disappear

  While reading Idra Novey’s Ways to Disappear, first, there was a woman with a…

Review: Fabienne Josaphat’s Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow

Fabienne Josaphat’s exhilarating debut novel is difficult to put down. Under the corrupt and brutal…

Microeditorial: 5 Ways Chris Rock Mocked Black Women For The Amusement Of A White Audience

  1. He shamed Jada Pinkett Smith for her decision to boycott the Academy Awards. He…

Inside Jane Heap’s Boudoir “the best conversation the world has to offer”

Much of the twentieth century’s most innovative writing made its first appearance on the pages…

Review: Una’s Becoming Unbecoming is a must read

Becoming Unbecoming, an anonymously written graphic novel, tells the story of Una.  First sexually assaulted as…

Microeditorial: Creed

I never thought I’d be rooting for a Rocky film. The franchise recalled American exceptionalism,…

Writing About Julia

In the early morning hours of July 5, 1953, two New York City police officers…

Forget Hallmark: Why Mother’s Day is a Queer Black Left Feminist Thing

My mother is black. So the means through which I was produced is a matter…

Rubbing Shoulders: A Collective Introduction to the Transnational Black Feminist Retreat

In a moment when media and other interlocutors in the United States tend to represent…

Moyumba by Ana-Maurine Lara, Guest Editor

Iya Abebbe Oshun arranged a dress on a wooden statue that represents her spirit guide,…