Asterisms

Holding A Mirror Up To Society: An Interview With Writer Sharon Leach

Sharon Leach was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and attended the University of the West Indies,…

Asleep In Capilla El Dorado

Resin pellets spark clouds inside the airport chapel & a priest marks time, swinging the…

Artist As Master Remixer: Lucia Hierro in conversation with Angie Cruz

A  few months ago visual artist, Lucia Hierro wrote to me via fb: Hi Angie.…

Writing About Julia

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

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…

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…