There’s so many queer Asian women, like so many. But you don’t see much of that in literature. But I think that more and more of us are writing and publishing now. It’s a game changer and it’s just awesome.
Stories are important when we live in a world where the truth is hidden and ugly, a world where most people have so little power over anything, where fate feels like wind, powerful and inexplicable.
Black Studies is most at risk when it is said to fit comfortably—uncomplicated and uncomplicating—astride a business-as-usual curriculum.
It’s a little borscht belt schtick but also an expression of sadness so deep that it can’t even tell if it is sad any more.
Chung paints each story with similarly hair-raising color palettes, but smartly refuses to limit herself to one structure, subject, or genre.
Live in Suspense – David Groff
Prior to the development of antiretrovirals, HIV/AIDS was an illness characterized by suspense: Which complications will I experience? . . . How will having HIV impact my housing and employment? How much time do I have left?
The Insidious Faux-Feminism of Barbie
It wasn’t until Barbie left Barbie Land that the proverbial needle skipped for me. I didn’t watch the Barbie Movie expecting a feminist film. I never imagined the need to critique it as such. But the Barbie Movie has proclaimed itself a feminist film, and so must be critiqued in this light.
The Kingdom of Surfaces – Sally Wen Mao
The Kingdom of Surfaces is an honest portrayal of the evils of commodification as well as what we humans are willing to suffer through or cause suffering upon for the sake of beauty.
The January Children – Safia Elhillo
In The January Children, the power of poetry unfurls like a tapestry of emotions, weaving together the threads of nostalgia, history, and longing.
I adore creating self-organized, magical-dreamy, messy-beautiful spaces of all kinds in which everyone feels empowered and “in it together,” and collaborative book projects are just one more type of those spaces.