It’s the time of year when the weather acts like a Philip Glass score. The body can’t get enough of the mikva of hot water, and we turn inwards. “What day is it?” one of my students asked in class last week, twirling his pencil. “The 87th of January,” another quipped back, without looking up. Read more
It’s challenging, isn’t it? The way we come face-to-face with the things we’d like to leave in the last calendar year, the things we expect ourselves to be able to cleanly cut away from just because we scrawled that we would in 2019? Read more
I am Honduran or Italian. I am me. A collection of my lived experiences. In New York, I imagine it’s Christmastime. My uncle hunched over the counter making homemade pasta noodles for lasagna, my aunt stealing a few slices of salami of her freshly made antipasto, and the smell of penne alla vodka permeating throughout Read more
I realize that in this time and society, I need the blessings of men around me in order to establish myself. Read more
Hailed as the “Queen of Adire,” Okundaye is the most famous proponent of this Nigerian textile tradition, credited for making it known—and celebrated—by the outside world. But despite its creeping popularity in the West, its future remains uncertain. Read more
Step 1: Get dessert and an Old Fashioned. Read more
Humans are repositories of composite knowledge, learned by rote because of necessity or habit, much of which sits below, glacially submerged. Read more
The inherent stress of having families under capitalism allows them to become isolated and violent institutions. Read more
Show me the queer love that’s hard to look at, the kind that makes its own rules and does what it wants regardless of approval or pride. Read more
I was taken to a children’s home and, screaming, dunked into a bathtub of ice water. Read more
