Criticism

Microeditorial: A meditation on possibility in academia

There is no secret about the way in which white nationalism and white supremacy permeate…

Microeditorial: First Purge, A Movie and Country Divided

The First Purge is the Black Panther of Wu-Tang Clan land. In the Black-directed prequel,…

Voice Thundering: A Review of The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Back in middle school my boyfriend Carlos grabbed my hand right before the school bell…

Microeditorial: For Kanye, Resistance across the Americas

Zora Neale Hurston has an often discussed 1928 essay “How it Feels to be Colored…

Microeditorial: Impossibilty of Redemption/ Justice and Possibilty

I come from a place in which I was taught that you don’t meet violence…

REVIEW: I am the Person I Know Best: Jennifer Givhan’s Lifeline

Run. Being run. Run on asphalt. Being run on asphalt with old sneakers. Being run…

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…