ART
the idea that human rights are tied to land and the fact that plants are part of my work is no coincidence. Indigenous cultures wouldn’t exist without access to land as a fundamental right. That’s a theme in my work: food culture, human rights, access to land, taste.
Q&A
Elliptical doesn’t have to be leaps across white space on the page. Mad lib blanks can also provide ways to experience the elliptical.
INSIGHT
Cartoons taught me to laugh at violence. To see it as pattern, rhythm, inevitability. But back home, the patterns were bloodier.
POETRY
learning through hunger is still desire
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Neither of us
take comfort from worship, but how
else is a country sated?
Self-portrait because I once saw a door and knew not to open. Because behind every door is a mouth, and the tongue, a road.
the smell of burning carpet like when a place someone lives is burning, photographs filling with black water before curling at the edges like hats.
This is a different kind of dark than the one beneath a bedcover, more like the one inside a fist, a dark where we can’t see our own arms and can pretend for a while that we haven’t yet been booted from our mothers by that god who gets paid to kick girls out of the womb...
