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Q&A The goal is for you to understand that these Black and Brown children, they’re being put in a really, really bad situation. That’s our system. Q&A Because my work takes on weightier themes, namely the myth of the American Dream and the stress-induced poor health outcomes caused by social hierarchies, I lean into the humor, as a counterweight. Q&A Desire doesn’t stop just because the world’s falling apart. I think desire becomes even more consuming. Q&A The big question for me was: what happens if in 10 years none of this, none of the memories that I hold dear, or the ways that so define the geography of this place for me, exists anymore? INSIGHT We remain dedicated to opening doors for others in the same way that they have been opened for us. ENUMERATE “I would like to take the opportunity to instead celebrate those less-than-perfect figures who, in their own way, sought to resist assimilation.” ENUMERATE “Cataloguing stories about pleasure-seeking women can be traced back to my years as a twenty-something...” ENUMERATE “From Victorian literature to contemporary essays, poetry to pop culture TV shows, the following excerpts illustrate how the seeds for violence are planted, and the deep recesses where they take root.” ENUMERATE “There are not two Genders, / there is only One gender: / One’s own.” ENUMERATE Most textbooks would have you believe Black history stopped in the 1960’s. That the tragic assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the infallible marker of progress. ART On "Country, Home” and Art That Tells Multiple Stories ENUMERATE 6 Excerpted Poems on Being a Refugee, an Exile, an Immigrant
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Q&A with Jennifer Baker, author of Forgive Me Not
Q&A with Alejandro Varela, author of The People Who Report More Stress
Q&A with Nishant Batsha, author of Mother Ocean Father Nation
Q&A with Karen Cheung, author of The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir
Looking to the Horizon
Behaving Badly
Slut Lit & Dismantling “The Fallen Woman”
Except, All Of Us
One’s Own
The Black Artist: A Chronology
Unrestricted Access: A Collective American Vision
Far From Home
Mimi Wong
EDITOR IN CHIEF
Mimi Wong writes about art, culture, and literature. Her work has appeared in The Believer, Catapult, Electric Literature, Hyperallergic, Literary Hub, and Refinery29. Her fiction has been published in Cicada, Crab Orchard Review, Day One, Joyland, and Wildness. She is an alumna of the Tin House Summer Workshop, VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation), and Anaphora Writing Residency for Writers of Color. Her work has received support from the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and she is a recipient of The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.