All posts by Guest Contributor
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The Hooferman
By Natalie Diaz I started believing in the Hooferman the night Boy pulled the rope from the old canal—it lifted from the dirt inches at...
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Tradition Left These
By Royce K. Freeman Critique of tradition happens in the tongue and cheek. It happens while the shadows tend to a bruised back,...
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Louder Than the Dark: Toward an Acoustics of Suffering
By Nicholas Brady “Fuckin pig get shot 300 men will search for me My brother get popped And don’t no one hear the sound Don’t...
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Bait Car
By Tria Andrews Maybe to you crime will always be black and white. Maybe because you’ve worked hard and have something to show for that work....
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Siempre En Mi Mente: On Trans* Violence
By Francisco J. Galarte For Gwen This month marks the ten-year anniversary of the death of Gwen Amber Rose Araujo, a Mexican American transgender woman...
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Phantasmagoria; or, The World is a Haunted Plantation
By Selamawit D. Terrefe This year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival debuted a “holographic” performance by the late Tupac Amaru Shakur. Rather than...
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Sounding Off: On Violence
By Darnell L. Moore and Isaiah M. Wooden What becomes of the voiceless, or, rather, the person whose voice is at once audible, but silenced?...
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“Black Spaghetti;” or, “Spaghetti al Nero di Seppia”
By John Murillo B—- gasps into a waking death as the sun plagues the room with good-morning shade. Wordlessly, black flesh creaks upward, bending at...
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Walking the “Only” Road: Psychological Tight Spaces
By Shawn Ricks I have always been the child exposed to many different things, and these experiences have, in a way, saved my life. These...
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Are We Really That Different from Cicely Bolden?
By Kat Griffith Cicely Bolden was a young woman who was stabbed to death by her boyfriend because of her HIV status. After school, her...
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She Didn’t Deserve To Die
By Precious Jackson I’m saddened to hear about Cicely Bolden’s murder at the hand of her intimate partner when this did not need to happen....
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On Motherhood and Surviving Sexual Violence
By Gretchen Davidson There are moments in life that lift a curtain and give us a glimpse of what is really propelling us through this...
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I Was Raised By Welfare: A Defense of Social Safety Programs
By Bertha Alvarez Manninen A few houses down from my own, there sits a white Jeep parked in front of a middle-class suburban home. Every...
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Storytelling: Or, Autoethnography in the Academic Industrial Complex
By Mejdulene B. Shomali When my sisters and I were young, we’d ask our father to tell us a story before bedtime. I’m not sure...
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On Michelle and Motherhood
Sarah Mantilla Griffin “And I say all of this tonight not just as First Lady…and not just as a wife. You see, at the end...
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There Is No Water in Our Survival Kit
By Fakhra Hassan The date is 28th April, 2012. The city is Lahore. The venue is the Lahore Press Club. On behalf of the Institute...
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You Betta Werk!: Professors Talk Style Politics
By Tanisha C. Ford In recent years, appropriate attire for professors has been a hotly debated topic. Scholars from various disciplines have offered instruction, fashion...
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Go (or don't go?) Topless Day
By Marie-Laure Rives Today is Go Topless Day! GoTopless.org is a U.S.-based organization founded in 2007, claiming that women have the same constitutional right as men...