A mixture of Juno meets Miranda July’s The First Bad Man meets something new entirely, Frazier’s book explores themes of female intimacy, queerness, addiction, motherhood, and how quickly anything can escalate.
Incantations for Unsung Boys
The most powerful magic often remains invisible, except to those who know how to recognize it. The act of gendering is also an incantation, an act of naming.
Review: Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
Trethewey’s memoir is a lyric confrontation with grief—the way it shapes and reshapes memory over time, permeating even those decades preceding loss.
Review: Blue Ticket by Sophie Mackintosh
Mackintosh examines the nature of rebellion, the innate strength of motherhood, and the paradox of choice.
Between Screens: My Bathroom Desk
I didn’t choose the bathroom for its grandeur. The room is narrow and yellowed with a bathtub against the wall and cobwebbed windows above the toilet and sink.
Crisis, Struggle, Counter-Revolution: A Brief Guide to Racial Capitalism in the U.S.
It may seem strange, when thinking of the future, to recommend books on the past, but studying history is not simply about picking apart old news.
Between Screens: Ficus Elastica
Our plant is the closest thing I have to a little brother, disregarding some of my mother’s oldest plates and mugs. It is stocky and broad, it throws its dark leaves and branches as far horizontally as it does vertically.
The Strange World of Work: An Interview with Hilary Leichter
…I was thinking about dating in the city and how it can be just like applying to jobs. There are some interesting parallels…
The Syllabus on Racism
Racism exists everywhere. Nothing prepared me though, for the extent of racism in the US, or in the western world in general.
Review: Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
I find myself pulled into a whisper, a grandmother’s bedtime story, a folktale from an era long gone, and into the pulse of the earth itself.
Pride Was Always a Protest
Pride was never about consumerism, brands and celebrating to hit a checkbox, it was always cemented in rioting, protesting, and revolution.
Translation as Activism: An Interview with Rachel Galvin
An interview with Rachel Galvin about wallops, activism, and the future of self-translation.