August 17, 2018
Three Minute Review: Sakinah Hofler on Kelly Sundberg Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival HarperCollins, 2018 If this book took the form of a landscape, it would be a mashup of seemingly impossible terrains: Shifting mountains. “That hot, dry summer was the summer that I spent digging in clear, ...
August 08, 2018
Artress Bethany White Everything Resides in a Name The day the white babysitter calls you colored, you believe your birth parents were rainbows, unicorns, brightly hued fairies dancing across the television screen-- all beautiful, colorful things. You ask if I like being called black, a term rich in value and tincture. I don’t mind, I say, explaining the word is synonymous with ...
June 26, 2018
The Experiments: A Legend in Pictures and Words by Rachel May (Dusie, 2015) If you planted this book in the ground, what would grow? Pokeweed. Pokeweed berries have been used to make ink and fabric dye for centuries. Like May's flash fiction, they are humble in origin but produce rich colors. I imagine if you dug up the book again, the pages would be vampire purple. What book is this book's ...
June 18, 2018
Chet’la Sebree At a Dinner Party for White (Wo)men [T]he other plates are creatively imagined vaginas…The Sojourner Truth plate is the only one in the collection that shows—instead of a vagina—a face. Alice Walker, in response to Judy Chicago’s 1970 exhibit The Dinner Party Everyone else is invited to meet their vaginas— different denominations and ...