Issue 62: 17 May 2018

Deep Blue She

A music video by Tanuja Desai Hidier, featuring: ANOUSHKA SHANKAR on Sitar JON FADDIS on Trumpet AMITA SWADHIN on Testimony VALARIE KAUR on Watch Night Service TANUJA DESAI HIDIER on Vox & The We A note from Tanuja: Happy Women’s History Month—Every Month! The “Deep Blue She” music video-remix PSA is a grassroots/DIY/collective project featuring 100+ activist artists, musicians and writers, mostly […]

The Editorial

By Trevor Scott Barton   Jan sat at her desk, staring at a blank page in her notebook. Her left hand was balled into a fist sitting in the palm of her right hand. She shrugged her shoulders deeply and lifted her head from the page. She had pulled up the blinds on the large […]

A love poem for my sister in revolution

By LJ Hardy   Your jaw set fierce in the shape of battle clenched against the storm you face by the weapons of a life I long for when I’m lost here. My feet grounded precariously in the roots of intention integrities inconsistencies in the record of my birth. Your name unfamiliar to my lips like […]

Nabokov Shuffled

By Rony Nair   attention spans close in on revolving doors where Russian roulette is doled out for free in carotid bands, in naked lunches that cavort in restless smiles—the buddha lay somnolent as a vegetable while you cut me off and said you had to go. 3 seconds into somnolence where we take deep […]