While visiting national parks to detox from the oppressive whiteness of the MFA experience, Minda Honey is reminded the only places to retreat from whiteness in this country are the spaces women of color hold for each other.
Essays & Criticism
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Podcasts, Reading List, Uncategorized
Leave Them Alone! A Reading List On Celebrity and Privacy
Why do we feel like we own celebrities—not just their art or their products, but their images and their personal lives?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
How a Story Becomes a ‘Hopeful Thing’: George Saunders on His Writing Process
At the Guardian, the author recounts how it takes “hundreds of drafts” and “thousands of incremental adjustments” to form a story into a “hopeful thing.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quote Posts
The Roots of Cowboy Music: ‘This Is the Music We Made. This Is the Land We Made.’
Oakland writer Carvell Wallace travels to Elko, Nevada, for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering and reflects on what it means to be black and American.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, History
Godwin’s Law, Trump’s Era
“When we use Nazi imagery to describe Trump, nuance is lost.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Restless Ghosts of Baiersdorf
A small German town is haunted by its Jewish legacy and antisemitic past.
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On Bearing Witness: Saving Chickens, Saving Myself
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee reflects on seeing and “being seen” — the silent gift of bearing witness to one another and individual suffering as a way of offering comfort and hope.
Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
‘I felt dirty, a lesser person somehow than when I had left a week before.’
Rafia Zakaria’s essay in The Baffler on flying while Muslim is an important read that exposes a long list of things that most white, non-Muslim Americans never have to worry about while traveling.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Follow the Oil Trail and You’ll Find the Girls
A filmmaker travels the U.S. and Canada to speak with Indigenous women about the constant threats to their safety and their lives.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Follow the Oil Trail and You’ll Find the Girls
A filmmaker travels the U.S. and Canada to speak with Indigenous women about the constant threats to their safety and their lives.