October
2021
Undoing
Flash Fiction // Tara Isabel Zambrano “If I am that girl who pushed pins into the world map on the wall with you all afternoon, tying strings around them, locating our favorite places, objects of interest. If I am that girl who stole your ‘kerchief because it had the map of your face, a band of wetness from your mouth...”
My Mother, My Home
Essay // Fajr Muhammad“ My mother had been victim to deed theft. The man who rented us the house didn’t own it & had vanished just as we were being threatened to leave. Rendered squatters, for months we resided in my mother’s fears. She asked openly: Would the house be snatched out from under us?”
Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Los Angeles-based artist, awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant for her work exploring the cultural terrains of Nigeria & America. See here, her critically lauded piece: Blend in — Stand out.
Poetry. Flash fiction. Short stories. Essays. Art. Monthly.
All work is from women/non-binary artists of color.
Centering identities marginalized by traditional systems of American publishing & the arts
“ kelp entangles our feet. waves crash and crash & crash. clarity feels higher than airplanes in the summertime. we haven’t yet learned to drive–– on the way to heaven in a shopping cart.”
absence
Poetry//aegor ray“i became gloves i became two muscular hands with the skin turned inside out
i became language .”
“This is my little radio baby. I started (it) as an outlet for me to showcase South Asian music & talent because I noticed that’s something largely under-represented in the global club space.”
— Bianca Maieli
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Contributors
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby
ART
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Ashley Dashdorj Escobar
POETRY
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Bianca Maieli
MUSIC
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Fajr Muhammad
ESSAY
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aegor ray
POETRY
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Tara Isabel Zambrano
FLASH FICTION