She selected a single star on which to direct her attention. We are one light, she told herself.
While I was doing witness work around violence, I was also always living in a shadow space where I could be safer, where I could be protected, where I was known, where I could not be misread
Atrocities happen all too often in real life, so it’s my hope that people can be less hurt while reading my novels.
Life is getting sick and dying. Life is suffering. And that’s ok.
An interview with the Virginia Poet Laureate on poetry as witness, colonial history’s hauntings, and her longstanding poem-a-day practice
“The work of journalism is bound up in paying attention and noticing things. That’s kind of how I go through the world, with an antenna up for the unexpected, the beautiful, or the moving.”
The investigative journalist and author of the true-crime book The Good Girls in an interview about honor, caste, and patriarchy in India.
A dancing partnership blooms into a Bollywood romance.
In Part Two of a discussion on South Asian diasporic organizing in the movement for abolition, Mon M. and Sharmin Hossain reflect on their histories and positionalities as South Asian abolitionists.
“For Korean women writers, for whatever kind of poetry they want to write, I think this country has excellent soil for growing in any direction you want.”
“I think that sensual pleasure is at the heart of what I find to be exciting about writing.”
“It feels like you have crossed a river you cannot cross back again”
On Yuri Kochiyama’s 100th birthday, her granddaughter Akemi Kochiyama reflects on her radical anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and internationalist politic and praxis
“The narrative that is built around a particular moment eventually buries the moment itself.”
“Together we are as mighty as our ancestors up from the dead.”
“As a writer, as someone who reveals their innermost selves linguistically, it’s lonely not to speak the same language as your parents.”
Mundane solidarity helped us meet outside of linear time and embrace ourselves as the whole suns we are.
On Chinatowns around the world, writing about teen girlhood, and making music.
“Sex worker activism is always based in anti-police, anti-prison activism.”
“I was interested in a coming-of-age story that wasn’t about running away from the domestic space but about burrowing and binding and rooting more deeply.”
An activist, educator, and transnational feminist, Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey has dedicated her life to challenging systems of oppression.
While I was doing witness work around violence, I was also always living in a shadow space where I could be safer, where I could be protected, where I was known, where I could not be misread
“It feels like you have crossed a river you cannot cross back again”
Atrocities happen all too often in real life, so it’s my hope that people can be less hurt while reading my novels.
On Yuri Kochiyama’s 100th birthday, her granddaughter Akemi Kochiyama reflects on her radical anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and internationalist politic and praxis
Life is getting sick and dying. Life is suffering. And that’s ok.
“The narrative that is built around a particular moment eventually buries the moment itself.”
An interview with the Virginia Poet Laureate on poetry as witness, colonial history’s hauntings, and her longstanding poem-a-day practice
“Together we are as mighty as our ancestors up from the dead.”
“The work of journalism is bound up in paying attention and noticing things. That’s kind of how I go through the world, with an antenna up for the unexpected, the beautiful, or the moving.”
“As a writer, as someone who reveals their innermost selves linguistically, it’s lonely not to speak the same language as your parents.”
The investigative journalist and author of the true-crime book The Good Girls in an interview about honor, caste, and patriarchy in India.
Mundane solidarity helped us meet outside of linear time and embrace ourselves as the whole suns we are.
A dancing partnership blooms into a Bollywood romance.
On Chinatowns around the world, writing about teen girlhood, and making music.
In Part Two of a discussion on South Asian diasporic organizing in the movement for abolition, Mon M. and Sharmin Hossain reflect on their histories and positionalities as South Asian abolitionists.
“Sex worker activism is always based in anti-police, anti-prison activism.”
“For Korean women writers, for whatever kind of poetry they want to write, I think this country has excellent soil for growing in any direction you want.”
“I was interested in a coming-of-age story that wasn’t about running away from the domestic space but about burrowing and binding and rooting more deeply.”
“I think that sensual pleasure is at the heart of what I find to be exciting about writing.”
An activist, educator, and transnational feminist, Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey has dedicated her life to challenging systems of oppression.