White power is a body without a soul. Black subjugation is soul that cannot possess its rightful body. Continue reading
Category Archives: Issue: Art You Engaged
A Letter to the Editor About Dudes Grabbing Crotches in Greenville, North Carolina by Erin Sroka
Dear Sir, When I was nineteen, I told my creative writing professor what I wanted to write about in my next short story: the Halloween party where my friends and I were groped by anonymous hands in a very large crowd. Continue reading
The Feeling of Contingency by Petrina Crockford
This is my fight: to be nothing, to be everything, to listen. Continue reading
Even One Name is Too Many by Kristi Moos
There is nothing safe about being a writer. There is nothing safe about being an artist. Our art can only be as safe as we are, which is to say, never. Continue reading
(No) Rules of Engagement by Maya Sonenberg
A teacher once admonished me: Just write the damn story!
Why doesn’t this comfort me?
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Writing Dangerously by Ahsan Butt
A Muslim who does not practice or believe is generally regarded as safe. It is in the act of prayer that I become potentially dangerous. Continue reading
On Art and Engagement by Monica Lewis
Do not engage. Do not dispute. Do not contend. Do not alert the world that you too have a body that needs to breathe. Continue reading
