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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 Baltim...

MICHELLE OBAMA AND I SELF-MEDICATE by Xandria Phillips

Xandria Phillips is a poet and visual artist from rural Ohio. Xandria has received fellowships from Oberlin College, Cave Canem, Callaloo...

GOOGLE TRANSLATE 'HOW TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET': A PARTIAL CHINESE-ENGLIS DICTIONARY by Nan

my grandfather was the one who told me that women loving women is la la la la for lily. la la for pull. la la for the print on my pillows...

MOORING AT THE MOUTH by Sarah Maria Medina

i am afraid to send my daughter/ into the howl of it/ afraid of lynching/ that they will see her brown skin & mistake her perfect/ hand f...

MY MOTHER CANNOT LOOK AT ME WITHOUT WANTING TO CRY by Adam Hamze

Adam Hamze is an Arab-American poet and journalist at the University of Texas at Austin. His poems have been published in Vinyl, The Offi...

THE SPACE BETWEEN SKIN IS CALLED A WOUND by Julian Randall

So I guess that’s my name now I am progress in the way a scab is progress and this is what it is to be biracial conceived as a thin p...

TWO POEMS by Jonathan Jacob Moore

micro aggression violence is not the answer unless you ask: I. how did you make find out of flesh? II. how do you dispose of evidence whe...

ESSAY ON WHAT IS & ISN'T by Cameron Awkward-Rich

to c.e. When a man says knife is no form of seduction he means he’s never been split. But doesn’t everyone have a seam? Unravel to dark s...

FIELD STUDY #1 by Aricka Foreman

I take my father’s nose and shove it in a box. My mother’s mouth lays claim to the vowels Of my making. I learned to tend and till and di...

PORTRAITS OF MAMA MBOGA NEXT-DOOR JUST PAST HER LATEST TEEN by Redscar McOdindo K'Oyuga

she is ruined without ether or violet smoke, covers her skin in jewels. she is the taj mahal, she’s what happens to little toys in the da...

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