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Ruined to Become Real: A Conversation with Deesha Philyaw
Satire is when you’re really leaning into something to almost severe proportions. So while I was thinking about the fashions, the performance and pageantry of the Black church, specifically embodied within the first lady, that’s when I had the idea…
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Liturgy of Teeth
The future is a long exhalation. It becomes a prism now and in it I see God, my father, myself, fractals of light creating new light and everything caught up in it. I see a cascade of machines falling down…
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Sunday Scaries: “Little Cat People”
He never shows during the day, even when I sit on the porch to watch for him. But this morning, dawn not yet arrived, he pokes a teeny hand out with nails that curl into spirals on only four digits,…
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Our Mothers
We mostly lived in cities—big and small—and we became busy with our own lives, or tried to be busy (sometimes we were busier worrying about our lives than living them, but in our twenties it was hard to tell the…
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Transparent Horses
The Chinese adage, right eye twitching brings disaster. The American idiom, a horse is poetry in motion. There is no saying that it is good to have a poet in the family.
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KATSEYE: Girl Group Abstraction
KATSEYE turned into six shades of Glossier lip oil; KATSEYE turned into six different kinds of Lush soap; KATSEYE turned into a special flavor of fried chicken at Jollibee.
