Criticism

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…

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…