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Spinal Column

Black women are supposed to have strong backbones but my Black back is jacked. Before…

Empire Building Requires History

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Notes on Writing about Sexual Violence

“What would happen,” the poet Muriel Rukeyser asks in her oft-quoted poem “Käthe Kollwitz,” “if…

Wayfinding: A Conversation with Chloë Bass

Chloë Bass’s Wayfinding is comprised of twenty-four site-specific sculptures at St. Nicholas Park, across from…

From the series Remains

Elisabeth Frost’s books include All of Us: Poems, Bindle (in collaboration with artist Dianne Kornberg), and the Feminist Avant-Garde…

Nightgown

One day, during this long ago summer when I was twelve, I went looking for…

Architecture of a Staircase

11am on a Wednesday I started the day considering the figure but soon became preoccupied…

Expanding the Waters of Love: A Review of Shayla Lawson’s I Think I’m Ready To See Frank Ocean

“Of course, when I say, ‘Ocean’ I am thinking of myself —how every time I…

Tender Birria

[A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: As my lesbian marriage was disintegrating, I experimented with dating…

Esto no puede ser nomás que una canción (excerpt from Rhyme and Reason) by Criseida Santos-Guevara

Translated from the Spanish by Amira Plascencia-Vela There’s a song stuck in my head, and…