On Queer Family • Curated by Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal
“What are your impossible queer dreams? What does kinship look like beyond the ties enshrined by the State?”
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ReadOn Permanence • Curated by Briana Gwin
“Maybe you are like me, and you’ve been thinking a lot about permanence.” -
ReadOn Rivers • Curated by Patrycja Humienik
“A river is a contested site. I return again and again to rivers, real and imagined.” -
ReadOn Tending • Curated by Bianca Ng
“What are you shedding these days in order to become more yourself?” -
ReadOn Work • Curated by Say Madges
“The media has fomented a moral panic — ‘no one wants to work anymore’ — when, more accurately, no one wants to work under these conditions anymore.” -
Readnotes on anticipation
In this moment that has come to happen / in other moments, the notes / of birds nestled in my asking. -
ReadThe Year of Getting Better
“It’s the year of getting better,” her mother said as she walked into the room. It was Thora’s second hospital stay of the year. -
ReadMemory, a Lacuna
My mother and grandmother were born in ‘the land of the lake,’ or La Comarca de la Laguna, a cradle of fertile land between the Sierra Madre mountain ranges in the northern Mexican desert -
ReadEvery Morning I Take a Bus Through the West Bank (II)
As I look out upon a landscape now heavily shaped by American colonialism, I know another world is possible. -
ReadMath Problem with a River
A farmer with a wolf, a goat and a cabbage must cross a river by boat. -
ReadFor the Gentleness of Our Leaving
I started asking rivers to feed me as a child—literally, with flesh from fish, then figuratively, with flashes of comfort. -
ReadElectrician’s Litany
The Opera House power vault / blows and knocks out the local grid / on our first day of work together.
