The Agitator

The activist-academic Silvia Federici has never muted her message to get ahead. What’s the cost of refusing to sell out?

Tailpipe Katabasis

Oil Stories and/as Underworlds

My Body in Water

The swimming pool is my secret world and safe haven away from shame and judgement. But it hasn’t come easy.

Latest

The Agitator

The activist-academic Silvia Federici has never muted her message to get ahead. What’s the cost of refusing to sell out?

Tailpipe Katabasis

Oil Stories and/as Underworlds

My Body in Water

The swimming pool is my secret world and safe haven away from shame and judgement. But it hasn’t come easy.

What Does A Mother Sound Like?

Who decided that women get to be society's sounding board for words that feel like shadows?

Brat Girl Summer

Charli xcx brings the club to the world.

Land of Five Rivers

Partition, climate change, my grandmother, and me.

Staying In

On writers in movies.

Fractal / Flood

a found poem from the Letters of William Blake (1980)

When it Comes to Cookbooks, Who's a Critic?

 A good cookbook can be mind-opening, read for or looked at for pleasure, despite having middling recipes. An excellent one can be a tool and art one in the same.

The Inside is Rotten

As our collective fears shift, so too do the monsters that stand in for them.

Which of Our Thoughts Are Interesting?: An Interview with Elisa Gabbert

The author of Any Person Is the Only Self on authorial trust, the occult of reading, and circles of heightened attention.