“Two please,” I say.
The vendor looks me over and waves his skinny arm towards the colorful ticket display behind the counter, lifting his chin in my direction. The gesture reminds me of my ex—Jairo’s father.
Dim-Witted
Even a lightbulb signifies positive change. Now, I try to remember the negative. What’s the opposite of a lightbulb going off above my head? Dim? Dim-witted? It means the less light there is—the less whiteness that exists—the worse we’re deemed to be.
Who Makes Illustrations
Artwork by Ting-En Tsai
Interview with Christopher X. Shade
Shade talks with poetry editor Max Hamilton about confronting grief through meditation and writing.
“Seeing Up” by Timothy Cakebread, Audio Screenplay Part I
Timothy Cakebread is an actor, filmmaker and writer from Natick, Massachusetts. In 2018 he starred in the independent feature film What We Don’t Say, which is now available on Amazon Prime and Google Play. A […]
On Becoming a God in Clifton Park
Vicente was, in many ways, NXIVM’s chief propagandist. I shouldn’t be surprised by this exaggerated performance of victimhood. I’d feel guilty for making my wife sleep next me on the floor, too. But he lets her forgive him a few too many times.
An Interview with Yelka Kamara
Yelka Kamara is the creator and host of the podcast Kume: Turning Point Diaries, where she explores critical moments in her guest’s lives. Yelka founded the podcast with a simple mission: tell stories that inspire […]
To Never Have Lost At All
I Today’s my last day in California, and as if some kind of twisted joke, it is especially glorious, a day spent wrapped in the arms of comfort, my name light in the air as […]
MIXED™
Do you find yourself too “white-nized” to be fully non-white, but too non-white to be white?
Who needs Representation when you have Suggestion?
These shows have built into them opportunities to show sides of the sixties that have seldom been seen before in mainstream media, and yet they don’t take them.
One Last Time
I was walking down 85th and Lex when I saw him. It had been four months since the last correspondence. This was after our direct contact dissipated because of his drinking, which led to the yelling, which led to me wearing longer sleeves and waking up earlier to add more layers of makeup. The marks human eyes couldn’t see took longer to fade.
An Interview With Kiera Allen
Allen co-stars in the new film “Run,” which premiers on Hulu Friday, November 20.
Anti-Sweetheart Sentiment
I’ve always thought redemptions should come in the form of damp little castles.
Overhand
In the express checkout lane, the cashier asked her if she’d found everything she was looking for. She didn’t know how to answer, so she left the store without buying anything.
What does this election mean to you?
I sat in the park for two hours with my crooked teal-lettered sign talking to New Yorkers.
Picture and Pen
When I want to know more about him, I read the words that shot fists into the air.
Still Manic
I get manic when people turn sex education into something it is not.
Henry Drobbin Talks Unions, Layoffs, and Restructuring
“It’s union busting. To have clear and direct language in a collective bargaining agreement, a precedent that has been followed for ten years, and then to cast it aside and say, ‘We don’t follow that. We don’t need to have this conversation with the union.”
Works of Caitlin Du, Part 2
Caitlin was born and raised in Beijing, China. In 2018, her work was exhibited in the Metamorphosis Charity Exhibition in the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in the 798 art district. Caitlin moved to New York City in […]
Restructuring the Conversation: Richard Bernstein on The New School Layoffs
“For six months now, they’ve been talking to us about restructuring. There’s now a task force about this, but no one has a concrete idea of what that restructuring means. All you have to work on is rumors, and that’s terrible […] No faculty member has a clue about what this concretely means and when it’s going to happen. And that, I know, has caused enormous anger and frustration.”