FICTION
Fiction
Sagit Emet
Two orphans, who believe they are too old to ever be adopted, get a surprise chance. Translated from the Hebrew by Yaron Regev. Short Story
- April 10, 2020
Fiction
Samuel R. Delany
In a pre-Giuliani New York where pornographic theaters create communities of dissimilar people, a young blue-collar worker and a homeless ex-con forge a connection through their shared enjoyment of public sex. Short Story
- December 6, 2019
Fiction
Samuel R. Delany
A man seeks intimacy during a time of crisis.
- April 9, 2020
Fiction
JR Fenn
When bees around the world exhibit a frightening new behavior, a researcher takes comfort in a familiar hive. Short Story
- April 3, 2020
Fiction
Sabrina Helen Li
Winner of the Fall 2019 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest.
- January 24, 2020
Fiction
Noel Cheruto
“Pinch off fist-sized balls and roll these into flat circles. Circles you turned in the morning of the coup.” Short Story
- April 23, 2020
Fiction
Tananarive Due
“He’s just a kid. Why are you putting a kid in handcuffs? This feels like profiling. Isn’t that what this is called?”
- February 25, 2020
POETRY
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Hazem Fahmy
Hazem Fahmy was a finalist for the 2019 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest and this poem appeared in our arts anthology Allies.
- July 30, 2021
Poetry
Rachel Levitsky & Suzanne Goldenberg
Against Travel: A Collaboration
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Amy Sara Carroll
Activation Instructions
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Khaled Mattawa
‘Alams from the Black Horse Prison, Tripoli, Circa 1981
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Poetry
ETC.
Fiction
Abdellah Taïa
In a wrenching dialogue, a man searches for human connection, even as he recalls childhood abuse. Translated from the French by Amanda DeMarco.
- April 24, 2020
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Set against the backdrop of Seattle Pride, a personal meditation on trauma, loneliness, and the paradox that gay community is often both life-giving and terribly disappointing.
- June 29, 2020
Micki McElya
Before allies were included in the LGBT movement, they had never been afforded equal footing within a social justice movement. But is this an effective strategy for building solidarity?
- December 30, 2019
Rigoberto González
Allies can be powerful aides to social justice movements—but it is their responsibility to make sure they don’t become a distraction from the cause.
- June 5, 2020
Walter Johnson, Tef Poe, Mordecai Lyon
Harvard professor Walter Johnson and rapper Tef Poe reflect on their shared activism, and the place they see for allies—accomplices, even—in the long struggle for racial justice.
- October 23, 2019
Mark Nowak
When Celes Tisdale led poetry workshops at Attica State Prison, soon after the 1971 uprising, some of the prisoners were still recovering from gunshots. Their writings demonstrates the power of poetry to help oppressed people heal from trauma and organize their political thinking.
- April 30, 2020
Robin D. G. Kelley, Vijay Iyer
Robin D. G. Kelley talks with musician Vijay Iyer about systems of oppression, the responsibility of artists, and how jazz sells proximity to blackness to white people.
- December 2, 2019
Roderick Ferguson
“We Cannot Be the Same After the Siege”
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