A conversation between audio producer Nicole Kelly and Kamala Puligandla, former editor-in-chief of Autostraddle.com and author of ZigZags.

We’re excited to announce the 2021 Full Stop Editorial Fellows: Nico Millman and Kudrat Wadhwa!!!

Fast-paced political publishing still exists, often a display of the power and potential that lies in thinking big and publishing “small.”

I hope that these poems do not have answers but give rise to thinking around the sets of problematics in the mixing of sweat, spices, sucrose, and languages where the act of consumption evinces history archived in the body.

There is the belief that a person needs to have hit rock bottom in order to recover, but only a talented author, like Rebecca Handler, can show us what that looks like in gritty, realistic and darkly hilarious detail.

Gail Scott envisions an active meaning, sentence, and subject-in-becoming that wrestles in continuous interplay with the wider ecology around it.

In an attempt to uncenter the human — and any center, for that matter — Field replaces hierarchy with an ecology.

PERSONHOOD suggests that Thalia Field’s audacious verbal imagination has started to become merely the available instrument for promulgating an increasingly familiar message.

I hope that these poems do not have answers but give rise to thinking around the sets of problematics in the mixing of sweat, spices, sucrose, and languages where the act of consumption evinces history archived in the body.

And that’s saintly, actually. It’s saintly to not want to work.

I do that think in order to heal, some people have to disappear and do it in quiet.

We need to get away from the idea that any method is guaranteed for success or guaranteed for failure. The methods work, or fail, in a much more context-specific way.

Fast-paced political publishing still exists, often a display of the power and potential that lies in thinking big and publishing “small.”

This delight in difference is what black religion in the post-Trump still-neoliberal age, which is another way to say black religion in the age of Thomas Jefferson, in the age of racial capitalism, antiblack racism, and settler colonialism, needs to rediscover.

The appeal to love as a revelatory force is at once a familiar rhetorical strategy for galvanizing peninsular unification platforms and a basic generative paradigm for imagining other worlds emotionally.

What would happen if we looked at the spiritual picture of millennial America through a lens less of function or form but of power, understood historically?

A conversation between audio producer Nicole Kelly and Kamala Puligandla, former editor-in-chief of Autostraddle.com and author of ZigZags.

We’re excited to announce the 2021 Full Stop Editorial Fellows: Nico Millman and Kudrat Wadhwa!!!

We’re extremely excited to share that Full Stop is a 2021 recipient of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.

The features in this special issue optimistically find, in instances of black art and in black life, practices of world building.