Notes from Tzania

[Both nights, Mankwe Ndosi closed “Girls in Their Bedrooms” with live vocal improvisation, poetry reading…

Girls in their Bedrooms: A Playlist

In the summer before middle school, my sister and I communicated with one another using…

The PoppyCock Art Space

Since 2008, much art has been created behind the bedroom doors of The PoppyCock. The house…

Inside Out

To miss you is an extraction is not finding what I think I see is…

Tal’-s-go Gal’-quo-gi Di-del’-qua-s-do-di Tsa-la-gi Di-go-whe-li / Beginning Cherokee

I-gv-yi-i Tsa-la-gi Go-whe-lv-i: A-sgo-hni-ho-‘i / First Cherokee Lesson: Mourning Find a flint blade Use your teeth…

The Structure of Bubbles

I After a lifetime of smoking Virginia Slims, my grandmother was dying of lung cancer in the oncology…

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…

Aster(ix) Newsletter #7

“I try to imagine these books as bodies, as protests, as experiential spaces of multi-layered truths.”…

Powder Puff

You can’t rush this. Nuh uh. That’s why you get up at four in the…

A Conversation with Filmmaker Alex Rivera

Watch Alex Rivera’s A Robot Walks Into a Bar at FUTURESTATES Armando García: I would like…