Nightmares Before Christmas
No one is coming to save us but ourselves.
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...moreI’ve been everywhere, but I don’t belong anywhere.
...moreHow does a fictional account come to stand in for history?
...more[A] person’s labor is not indicative of their parenting.
...moreWhy, in art of all things, should we ignore the intuition of the body?
...moreI sing it to feel the darkness of it. I demand access.
...moreIs it too much to ask: a girl to want her father to keep his feet firmly in the soil of the living?
...moreFeet dangle in the foreground, suspended in space by distance and gravity.
...moreSally Wen Mao discusses her new collection, OCULUS.
...moreThis is the story I needed as a young girl; this is the story we all need.
...moreIn The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
...moreEvery story needs to begin in a place of stasis, a comfortable zero.
...moreIn The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
...moreIn The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
...more…slavery isn’t African-American history, it’s American history.
...more“I can tell my story with precautions; others strip away my armor and expose a beating heart.”
...morePower structures are not static conditions—they cannot be built to last permanently and disruptions by young ambitious outsiders are inevitable.
...moreIn the dark, I felt at home in the underground bunker where the hospital stored its violent men.
...more“It’s like a damn Rubik’s cube down there!”
...moreI saw myself on the big screen—the strong black woman that I am, and the stronger black woman I aspire to become.
...moreI praise everyone I can still touch, their warmth a violent protest against the cold weapons of death.
...more[A]s with any documentary, every one of our stories eventually becomes a ghost story. On a long enough timeline, that is.
...moreCan a person with some agency ever claim victimization, or are agency and victimhood a binary?
...moreThe story of Rajneeshpuram is told in a series of events and everything within it is true. But it is not real. It does not come alive.
...moreWhose lives are visible? Whose pain is just? Whose grief is vocal? Such inquiry is not rhetorical.
...moreThe personal is political, to the extent that politics itself can be effectively effaced with no detrimental effects.
...moreFilmmaker Kareem Mortimer discusses his latest feature, Cargo, his writing process, and why the Bahamas can be “a microcosm for the world.”
...more“It was about showing people taking, or denying, responsibility.”
...moreIn 2017, newscaster cameos may be the only fact-fiction crossovers for which people have no difficulty keeping the two concepts apart.
...more“That’s right: George Bailey needs to chill. Don’t @ me.”
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