Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child
Left theory’s response to the feminization of labor has been to cry for mommy
A Vessel Among Vessels: For Laura Aguilar
Memories of a dyke bar in East LA conjure and are conjured by the work of Laura Aguilar
Emily Warren Roebling, the Woman Who Built New York
By Jessica Jacolbe
Where in the world is…Cathy Carlston?
By Joy Lisi Rankin
Left to their Own Devices: Gender, Cyberviolence, and the Internet
By Emma Louise Backe
Enkare, Patriarchal Power, Friends with Roses
On 10 June 2018, the 13-member team of Enkare Review, a literary journal, published a statement detailing a pattern of patriarchal abuse of power by…
Pose
Now we think as we fuck this nut might kill us. —Essex Hemphill, “Now We Think” For a range of reasons—taste, aptitude, exposure, politics—my academic…
What Lands On Us
An excerpt from Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson's new book, As Black as Resistance, examines diasporic relationships to land.
A World More Beautiful and Alive: A Review of The Extractive Zone
From Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Colombia, and Bolivia, Macarena Gómez-Barris describes “submerged perspectives,” the decolonial ways of knowing that unsettle colonial relationships to land and the forms of violence they reproduce.
Ghosts
To tell the stories of a blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia provoked by the Disney Channel is to draw energy from a ghosting of severed connections, an otherwise movement of unnamed but present intimacies
black (beyond negation)
I am uninterested in investigating, documenting, theorizing, and inhabiting my own negation—black negation.
Grapefruit Your Man
See to it that no parts of him go wasted
Rhythms of Change: The Victorian Science Poems of May Kendall
By Olivia Rosane
Women Radiobiologists and ‘Standard Man’
By Brad Bolman In the waning years of 1940, Mary Jane Cook began work in the Health Physics department of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, named…
Welcome to Life as a Stepford Wife: The Politics of Self-Care in the 19th Century
By Robert Davis Beauty and self-care has always been in conversation with contemporary politics, especially regarding race, gender, class, and privilege. While the concept of…
Abolish the ICE Prison Complex
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons