Accidental Altars
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...moreIn other words: Larusso does some remarkably heavy lifting in this book.
...moreSpeak, Okinawa is masterful at describing the internal dissonance that mixed race children can feel.
...moreAnjali Enjeti discusses SOUTHBOUND and THE PARTED EARTH.
...moreFor me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
...moreClifford Thompson discusses his work and art-making.
...morePoet Kimiko Hahn discusses her new collection, FOREIGN BODIES.
...moreThis book is a marriage of the real world and the imagination, the nexus of nonfiction and fiction.
...moreJaquira Díaz discusses her debut memoir, ORDINARY GIRLS.
...moreShonda Buchanan discusses her new memoir, BLACK INDIAN.
...moreWhen I spoke Korean, I unearthed a hidden thread that bound us together.
...more“I want to always fight for art, not against it.”
...moreJulie Lythcott-Haims discusses HOW TO RAISE AN ADULT and REAL AMERICAN.
...morePoet Nicole Homer discusses her debut collection, Pecking Order, writing motherhood from many angles, and the importance of representation in the media.
...moreDanzy Senna discusses New People, inhabiting her characters without judging them, playing with the reality and surreality of identity, and pushing against traditional story arcs.
...moreSonya Chung discusses her latest novel The Loved Ones, the mental space required to wander around fictional worlds, and looking back at her childhood.
...moreSoon, you would discover the local isle of misfits. Every town has at least one if you do some digging. Yours was The Boathouse.
...moreBrooklyn Magazine’s Gina Florio poignantly discusses the pain of experiencing microaggressions from her own extended family, and “mastering [her] biracial identity:” I know we’ll eventually find ourselves in another similar situation, in which they’ll hurt me without trying to, marginalize me without realizing it. And when it happens I’ll speak up. Hazy brain and all. […]
...moreAny Nigerian will tell you that a woman without a husband is nothing.
...moreSanae Ishida discusses her debut children’s book, Little Kunoichi, The Ninja Girl, embracing her creativity after years in the corporate world, and finding inspiration in her young daughter.
...moreAt BuzzFeed, Mat Johnson breaks down the logistics of an oft-ignored, always tumultuous descriptor for multiethnic folks everywhere: I know that many people, they hear mulatto, and they think of the word mule. This is often the first complaint I hear about mulatto: that it derives from the hybrid product of breeding a donkey with a […]
...moreI am going to tell you my favorite story of how a flower acquired its name. It’s the story of the ranunculus.
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