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Art is never just art, and whiteness’ vision of the world doesn’t include me in it.
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Join NOW!Art is never just art, and whiteness’ vision of the world doesn’t include me in it.
...moreTo be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.
...moreGene Kwak discusses his debut novel, GO HOME, RICKY!
...moreElissa Washuta discusses her new essay collection, WHITE MAGIC.
...moreIt is only by holding Whitman accountable for all of his language that we can also love other parts of his language and poetics.
...moreYou stood and put your hair up. It made you a different man. You got hard and decided you were why.
...moreAndrea Actis discusses her debut book, GREY ALL OVER.
...moreAlex DiFrancesco discusses their new story collection, TRANSMUTATION.
...moreChang’s style imitates internet culture and the patterns of an anxious mind. But there’s also glamour.
...moreSpeak, Okinawa is masterful at describing the internal dissonance that mixed race children can feel.
...moreRae presents America as seen through Black girls’ eyes, experienced by our bodies.
...moreGeorgina Lawton discusses her debut memoir, RACELESS.
...moreRanda Jarrar discusses her new memoir, LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY.
...moreBut look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
...moreShe wanted more, but couldn’t fathom releasing what she already had.
...moreÉireann Lorsung discusses her new collection of poetry, THE CENTURY.
...moreBut perhaps it is our want for firm ground that Bolina is challenging.
...moreAlicia Elliott discusses her essay collection, A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND.
...moreThere are so many happy endings that dystopia and utopia become almost indistinguishable by the novel’s end.
...morePatrick Coleman discusses his debut novel, THE CHURCHGOER.
...moreI was a lonely, dreamy, occasionally silly girl.
...moreOne moment white, the next Latina, the next neither.
...moreMy blackness, like my gender, was a sin.
...moreMarwa Helal discusses her debut collection, INVASIVE SPECIES.
...moreThompson-Spires illustrate[s] the psychic traps set when myths take precedence over lived experience, when “the monstrous head deforms the face.”
...moreBieber is like a prism that reflects back whatever you want to see.
...moreThe sensibilities of whiteness do not want us to work, do not want us to think, do not want us to imagine outside of its bounds.
...moreJenny Zhang discusses her story collection Sour Heart, trying to escape the past, collective versus individual responsibility for trauma, and love as imprisonment.
...moreMinda Honey writes at Longreads on traveling to detox from whiteness and discovering there is nearly nowhere to escape. Good news, New Yorkers: apparently noise can be good for creativity. Susie Neilson looks at the good and the bad of noise pollution for Nautilus.
...morePoet Vincent Toro on his debut collection, Stereo.Island.Mosaic, his writing process, and searching for identity.
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