Life is getting sick and dying. Life is suffering. And that’s ok.
Life is getting sick and dying. Life is suffering. And that’s ok.
An interview with the Virginia Poet Laureate on poetry as witness, colonial history’s hauntings, and her longstanding poem-a-day practice
“The work of journalism is bound up in paying attention and noticing things. That’s kind of how I go through the world, with an antenna up for the unexpected, the beautiful, or the moving.”
The investigative journalist and author of the true-crime book The Good Girls in an interview about honor, caste, and patriarchy in India.
A dancing partnership blooms into a Bollywood romance.
In Part Two of a discussion on South Asian diasporic organizing in the movement for abolition, Mon M. and Sharmin Hossain reflect on their histories and positionalities as South Asian abolitionists.
“For Korean women writers, for whatever kind of poetry they want to write, I think this country has excellent soil for growing in any direction you want.”
“I think that sensual pleasure is at the heart of what I find to be exciting about writing.”
How can Black and Asian American feminists engage in a critical dialogue on the impacts of COVID-19 in their respective communities? What can we learn from the long history of solidarity between our communities?
The author of the essay collection Brown Album on living in New York and searching for identity in exile during the worldwide pandemic.
“The narrative that is built around a particular moment eventually buries the moment itself.”
“Together we are as mighty as our ancestors up from the dead.”
“As a writer, as someone who reveals their innermost selves linguistically, it’s lonely not to speak the same language as your parents.”
Mundane solidarity helped us meet outside of linear time and embrace ourselves as the whole suns we are.
On Chinatowns around the world, writing about teen girlhood, and making music.
“Sex worker activism is always based in anti-police, anti-prison activism.”
“I was interested in a coming-of-age story that wasn’t about running away from the domestic space but about burrowing and binding and rooting more deeply.”
An activist, educator, and transnational feminist, Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey has dedicated her life to challenging systems of oppression.
“Indonesian literature is gaining traction. More slowly than we might want, but it’s an upward trajectory.”
“I would see thousands of people streaming from their officetels to Gangnam station, all very young, very self-possessed, very confident. I was imagining how everyone living in these officetels is very far from home.”
Life is getting sick and dying. Life is suffering. And that’s ok.
“The narrative that is built around a particular moment eventually buries the moment itself.”
An interview with the Virginia Poet Laureate on poetry as witness, colonial history’s hauntings, and her longstanding poem-a-day practice
“Together we are as mighty as our ancestors up from the dead.”
“The work of journalism is bound up in paying attention and noticing things. That’s kind of how I go through the world, with an antenna up for the unexpected, the beautiful, or the moving.”
“As a writer, as someone who reveals their innermost selves linguistically, it’s lonely not to speak the same language as your parents.”
The investigative journalist and author of the true-crime book The Good Girls in an interview about honor, caste, and patriarchy in India.
Mundane solidarity helped us meet outside of linear time and embrace ourselves as the whole suns we are.
A dancing partnership blooms into a Bollywood romance.
On Chinatowns around the world, writing about teen girlhood, and making music.
In Part Two of a discussion on South Asian diasporic organizing in the movement for abolition, Mon M. and Sharmin Hossain reflect on their histories and positionalities as South Asian abolitionists.
“Sex worker activism is always based in anti-police, anti-prison activism.”
“For Korean women writers, for whatever kind of poetry they want to write, I think this country has excellent soil for growing in any direction you want.”
“I was interested in a coming-of-age story that wasn’t about running away from the domestic space but about burrowing and binding and rooting more deeply.”
“I think that sensual pleasure is at the heart of what I find to be exciting about writing.”
An activist, educator, and transnational feminist, Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey has dedicated her life to challenging systems of oppression.
How can Black and Asian American feminists engage in a critical dialogue on the impacts of COVID-19 in their respective communities? What can we learn from the long history of solidarity between our communities?
“Indonesian literature is gaining traction. More slowly than we might want, but it’s an upward trajectory.”
The author of the essay collection Brown Album on living in New York and searching for identity in exile during the worldwide pandemic.
“I would see thousands of people streaming from their officetels to Gangnam station, all very young, very self-possessed, very confident. I was imagining how everyone living in these officetels is very far from home.”