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A Reach That Remains
By Tiana Reid There is a file on my computer saved as “fathers day.doc.” It reads in full: fathers day crossed-legged in the back of...
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Can’t/ Don’t/Stop
Can’t/Don’t/Stop: Black Dance in America for Bert Williams, Aida “Queen of the Cakewalk” Overton Walker and George Walker you don’t see the stretch you...
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l-o-v-e by t’ai freedom ford
By t’ai freedom ford even with its selfish, gaping mouth always hungering for anything that throbs. even with its greedy hands that rob the day...
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Aperture by Stacey Balkun
By Stacey Balkun Love note for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1900-1979, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, discovered the composition of stars. The Harvard moths were...
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Takiyah Nur Amin on Love as a Radical Act
By Takiyah Nur Amin How might love be re-imagined as a radical praxis that can bring about social transformation? Those of us committed to social...
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Jamie Utt on Love as a Radical Act
By Jamie Utt Everything in our popular lore and culture teaches us that love is a feeling, a whimsical but ephemeral emotion that’s all-consuming for...
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On Refusal, Privilege, and the Calcifying of the Soul
By Jason Craige Harris I am Other. When I come knocking at the door of your soul, you may refuse me, but not without consequence....
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Love letter to white people
By Joe Osmundson White people, I love you. I really do. Not because I am a white person myself. This is not a story of...
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A Radical Love Letter to my son
By Sarah Mantilla Griffin Dear Son, I love you. I have chosen how to love you. I love you radically, and I hope that this...
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Evelyn Blackwood on Love and Family
By Evelyn Blackwood When gay people were the deviants of society, and were accused of engaging in illicit and immoral acts, it was easy to...
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for she so loved the world
By: Angelina Blasich beautiful so burdened and blessed so alive and alone so loved so loved so loved for she so loved the world that she...
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Fallen Angels & Failures to Love: Gendered Violence in Songs About Bad Girls
By Annita Lucchesi Every year a few songs like this come out (semi-recent examples include Lil Wayne’s “How to Love,” J.Cole’s “Daddy’s Little Girl,” and...
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The Liminal Space Between Love and Non-Love: An Introduction to the “Love as a Radical Act” Forum
Love-talk tends to produce uncontaminated discourses that refuse to conceive love as a complex energy that is at once beautiful and messy, charitable and unruly....
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Jason Craige Harris on Love as a Radical Act
By Jason Craige Harris If viewed simply as saccharine or only as the affective pull between, say, two creatures, love loses its world-changing potency. If...
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River by Afuwa
_________________________________________________________ Afuwa is a Guyanese-born artist, facilitator, and writer who uses myth and constructions of identity to question nearly everything. She lives/works on unceded Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, Squamish...
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Assata’s living monument of love, a found poem for Trayvon and all kids who die* by Vanessa Huang
by Vanessa Huang we are all temporary. i’ll bow to beyond, and the miracles supporting us. maybe your bodies’ll be lluvia, a conscious accumulation de...
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Romantic Love – a Feminist Conundrum?
By Renata Grossi Romantic love has been read as a radical force capable of breaking down entrenched social barriers. Philosophers and sociologists have argued that...
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Casa Azul: A Love Poem for Tala by Kim Tran
by Kim Tran I imagine Frida Kahlo. I imagine her sitting with her broken, fractured spine in a cobalt house surrounded by banana leaves and...
