Aleta mentions in her tender letters, Among a chain of quaint and touching things, That you are feeble, weighted down with fetters, And given to strange deeds and mutterings. — Read on poets.org/poem/wild-may
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Everything Comes Back to Christina Sharpe’s In The Wake
Hafizah Augustus Geter traces the ways Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake makes waves in American culture. — Read on http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a43012829/christina-sharpe-in-the-wake/
Four Black Women Laugh – by k’eguro – Imagining Freedom
for my mother’s laugh — Read on keguro.substack.com/p/four-women-laugh
Claudia Jones and the Price of Anticommunism | AAIHS
Claudia Jones in London in the 1960s (Credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Divisions) Between 1949 to 1958 dozens … — Read on http://www.aaihs.org/claudia-jones-and-the-price-of-anticommunism/
Visual artist Jorge Pineda passes away
Various news outlets have been reporting the death of Dominican visual artist, Jorge Pineda. Here is an article by Karina Jiménez for Diario Libre (… Visual artist Jorge Pineda passes away
Remembering Marijane Meaker, a pioneer of lesbian pulp fiction : NPR
Meaker wrote Spring Fire in 1952, and was surprised when it sold 1.5 million copies. She went on to write other lesbian-themed books under pen names. She died Nov. 21. Originally broadcast 2003. — Read on http://www.npr.org/2022/12/14/1142786089/remembering-marijane-meaker-a-pioneer-of-lesbian-pulp-fiction
Showcase Magazine, Ephemera, C & R Press, Steel Toe Books, Fjords Review, PANK Magazine, American Poetry Journal…oh my?
Into the rabbit hole we go… — Read on litmagnews.substack.com/p/showcase-magazine-ephemera-c-and
NY Times: Our Trans Coverage Was Fine the First Time, Thanks – Hell Gate
To the Times, journalists demanding higher standards are now activists, which means their concerns don’t matter. — Read on hellgatenyc.com/ny-times-response-nytletter-trans-coverage-bias
February 9 – by taller ahuehuete – ahuehuete.org
On February 9, 1995, the EZLN and its support bases, both inside and outside of Chiapas, became the target of a military onslaught by the State. — Read on ahuehuete.substack.com/p/february9
Retail Labor Series – Adjunct Press
Mall is Lost Holly Raymond, 2018 Mall Is Lost is the epic poem on our lives housed within the structures of retail economy. The reader is removed from time with constant anachronisms of language, imagery, and characters; creating a flattened chronology of capitalism from the late-Medieval town structures to the decaying spectacle of centralized consumerism. This book is…Continue reading “Retail Labor Series – Adjunct Press”