EDITOR'S NOTE
I have become struck with sadness in more ways than one. From the slaughter of black and brown bodies to the mistreatment of marginalized...
Rai McKinley
Rai Mckinley is a photographer and activist at the intersections of race and gender. At 21 years old, he has been active in Chicago and...
AFTER I AM TREATED LIKE SHIT AND I MISS IT by Rachel Charlene Lewis
i approach the tall blonde in the bar // she says, “you’re so beautiful i’m scared to touch you,” because that is a thing people say,...
TWO POEMS by Ronaldo V. Wilson
61. Lucy, Hater The sky this morning is clear and endless, as are the clouds before the sun erases them, as is the time before Mars shows...
from FOOD by Tommy Pico
Dear Reader, Preheat the oven to 420 degrees. Wash the bird and remove its innards and cut off all the schmaltz. Oil literally...
QUANTITATIVE REASONING by Chen Chen
1 I don’t know how much more coleslaw I can take. 2 & I love coleslaw. 3 If Brian is traveling at 71 miles per hour & Ryan is traveling...
TWO POEMS by George Abraham
George Abraham is a Palestinian-American poet attending Swarthmore College. He competed in the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational...
TWO POEMS by Ariana Brown
THE ‘X’ IN ‘XICANO’ SPEAKS "The term Chicano is derived from the word Mejicano or Mexican, which itself is rooted in the word Mexicano...
BLACK PHILOSOPHY #3 by jayy dodd
after Jonah Mixon-Webster If this body is a boy & all boys know death & death bodies Black: then this body knows how boys die. Black boys...
ACTUALLY, YES, EVERYTHING IS ABOUT RACE by mace dent johnson
especially this episode of food network’s chopped / obviously / I am rooting for the token / the black woman / the black dude from...