Culture
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Featured Poet: Metta Sáma
Sign. Signifier. Signify. Signified: an American African ghazal I’ve heard Death is a white man in black tie, a man captive in a trick of...
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Spotlight Poet: Donika Ross
Whale Know, first, that she does not remain behind the baleen forever. Know, too, that the whale is unaware of the woman drowning on its...
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Featured Poet: Ama Codjoe
Red Clay Blues I call on my baby, say save some honey for me. ‘Cause everyday and I need some honey, —–and you best save...
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Featured Poet: Kamilah Aisha Moon
A SUPERWOMAN CHOOSES ANOTHER WAY TO FLY woke up again parched from a dream / full of old water, the only urgent tide / in...
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Gloria Steinem and "NO! The Rape Documentary"
By Aishah Shahidah Simmons Gloria Steinem is a Second Wave White Feminist pioneer who, for over 40 years and counting, has been at the forefront...
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Dunham in the Air: A Reflection on Radical Choreographies and Programming Social Justice
By Aimee Meredith Cox, Ph.D. Retrograde I was on my way to Santa Fe last summer marveling at the technology that allowed me to be...
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Featured Poet: Anne Marie Rooney
Elegy in which the film degrades —————————1 She has seen the angle a man shudders into. / The slab of haunch a promise. This woman /...
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A Review: Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project by Charles “Chas” Brack
By Darnell Moore “Sakia Latona Gunn: We Will Remember Her Name” (2008). Charles B. Brack (Producer) and Co-Produced with Third World Newsreel. Color; 58 minutes;...
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Music Feature: Diallo Hall on Sudanese "Girls' Music" and Artist Alsarah
In one of my favorite songs by Afro Beat progenitor Fela Kuti, he exclaims: If you call woman African woman no go ‘gree She go...
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Featured Writer: shulamith eagle
Visit to the Androcologist The office is spacious, airy and full of plants and sunlight, yet it has the subtle aroma of a medical office,...
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Featured Artist: J'Nell Jordan, Painter
She Just Wanna Dance Oil and acrylic on masonite board Dimensions: 24″ x 36″ Sky High Daze Oil and acrylic on masonite board Dimensions: 24″...
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Kathryn Stockett Is Not My Sister and I Am Not Her Help
By Duchess Harris, PhD, JD. I did not attend Wednesday’s movie release of “The Help” from DreamWorks Pictures, based on the New York Times best-selling...
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“Feministing” Bernini: What Italian Art Taught Me
By Keri Day How might art both reflect complex social realities and inspire social realities to be more radically inclusive and complimentary of human flourishing?...
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Featured Poet: Stephanie M. Pruitt
Ode to the Hyphen ____________ No dash, minus sign or broken line, you fill / and make continuous until there is no pause / for...
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Poet Spotlight: Rickey Laurentiis
Mood for Love ____________NEW ORLEANS, LA ____________AUGUST, 2005 ______1. (There I go.) I am the man / stepping up to the water. I am...
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Writer Spotlight: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Food-Related Flashes I have reached a lifetime low. In this very moment, I sit perched on the edge of a bathroom counter with no soap,...
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Two Exhibits, One Film, and the Pleasures of Gertrude Stein
By Sharon J. Kirsch When Gertrude Stein comes to the United States, she does so in a big way. In 1934, Stein, who had spent...
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On Her Birthday: Octavia E. Butler, Mountain Climber
Four days ago, my colleague and I decided to set off on our own, without our host, to explore London—a quick sightseeing and shopping trip...
