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Abstract: With all of the bombing and explosions and smoke everywhere, the impact of all of that on birds and other wildlife can be so significant that it is hard to speculate on the extent… [I]t is like a web, like breaking glass and watching it shatter out through the whole pane.I am at a writing residency in the foothills of Amherst, Virginia. I wake with morning light. Beyond my balcony, a wave of mountains emerge in lavender and mauve. Two doves come in for a soft landing on a tree ten feet away.The air is cold and brisk. I dress for breakfast, check the news. Russia is invading Ukraine, I learn, and wish to unlearn. After breakfast, I take my computer and walk the pebble path to my studio at the barn where I spend the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: El Anglo con cara de inocente nos arrancó la ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Every afternoon at about 3:15, Elsie Hamlet picked one task to complete: return an email to a parent, grade one essay or a few quizzes. The students had been dismissed. They were riding the bus or at sports practice or play rehearsal, and the hallway noise, the slamming of metal lockers, the laughing, shouting, screeching, running of teenagers, almost constant from 7:00 to 3:00, had finally faded away, leaving only the sound of the clock.She turned off the overhead lights and flipped through Opal's reading journal, a pink spiral notebook with ENGLISH written across the cover in letters that looked like they'd been painstakingly stenciled. Elsie skimmed the contents. In the margins, with an erasable green pen, she ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The door opened and Johnson Gibbs stood solidly in it. His blue eyes were very bright. There was full sunlight now and it made a burning glare on the snow. Against this harsh light Johnson's figure loomed black, black as velvet, blackly burning, and his voice sounded deep and hollow:"Well, Jess, are you one of us or not'"The day after my grandfather Bobby died, I drove with my sister from Charleston, South Carolina to Bakersville, North Carolina, a town of not-quite-500 along the Tennessee border. We stopped for food in Asheville, parking by a bank of purple asters. I threw open the car door to catch that first mouthful of mountain air. It tasted as sweet and clean as the water in the creek on Bobby's property. I ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Timely: that's but one word to describe Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's electric debut My Monticello, a collection of stories and a novella that bears witness to the white supremacy of both the past and present. Set in and around Charlottesville, Virginia, where Johnson lives and writes, the book centers on Black and Brown characters as they navigate the notion of home, both as a physical and spiritual place: the single mother who dreams of buying her first home, the mixed-race woman who changes her name to escape oppression, and in the title novella, a diverse group of neighbors–led by a descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings–who turn to Monticello in the face of racist violence.Critically acclaimed upon its ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: bell hooks was my friend. I don't say that lightly. Our friendship was something I rarely talked about to people who were not close to me because I never wanted to be one of those people who wanted something from her–who were biding their time until they made the big "ask" for what they wanted all along. Our friendship happened naturally. It started with a once a week lunch meeting, and evolved into two-three times a week lunches, coffees, phone calls. I never expected that one of my best friends in the world would be this feminist icon–this person who taught me so much about life, and love, and self-care. bell and I shared many things–a love of good, old-fashioned Southern food, especially my macaroni and cheese ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A good many years ago, when I heard that bell hooks was speaking favorably of me and some of my work, I thought that was remarkable. It seemed remarkable, of course, because the racial division is so prominent and so much in the way.But then I met bell hooks. We sat down and talked, unseriously with some laughter, and also seriously. This was a friendly conversation, which means that as we talked our points of view freely converged and diverged as honesty required. And I realized that her approval of me–which I think was somewhat limited, for it was intelligent approval–though it probably was rare, was not remarkable.The two of us, as she had seen, belong to a kind of people who can speak to one another with ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: bell was my friend for twelve years, and for the last nine of those we lived a few blocks from each other in Berea.I keep thinking about the way bell made people belly-laugh. She wore a proud, mischievous smile after she had said something particularly something. She was incredibly blunt. But the longer I knew bell the more I began to see it more as direct honesty and I respected that. Once she decided to have an impromptu dance party at her house—she loved dance parties—but when it reached a certain hour she shouted out, "Okay, party's over. Everybody leave!" In bell's way of thinking it was much kinder to let people know when she was tired than for her to sit there and be tired of them. Being around someone so ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: bell hooks has already been widely, rightly, and righteously lamented as our Hipparchia, our Beauvoir, and so much more. I have no doubt that process will continue as her extraordinary work finds new publics and makes new readerships across the planet. bell's world-changing contribution will ensure that mourning and affirming her will continue when and wherever love, critique, and the pursuit of freedom are combined and invoked by rebels, dissidents and sufferers seeking justice, autonomy, recognition and rights, but also by people seeking to form communities, enhance mutuality and find authentically democratic, pre-figurative modes of dwelling: the necessary home she wrote about so consistently and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I've been asked to speak about my dear friend bell hooks today, but I have to say it's not part of the natural order of things. She was way younger than I, so this should be the other way around. But to begin at the beginning, I think I first met bell when she was teaching at Yale in 1992 because she had the daughter of a dear friend of mine as a student, and it was clear, right away, that she was special because the students were fighting to get into her class. How often does that happen' Then she moved to New York, and we saw each other more. She had an apartment in New York, and we spent a vacation together on Cape Cod, on Martha's Vineyard.My funniest memory of her is shopping on Cape Cod. She was a fierce ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I met bell hooks in October 2014. At the time, I still held an image of her as an iconic writer rather than an enfleshed Black woman full of desire and deep feeling. She was, after all, one of the most consequential feminist writers and intellectuals of our time. And like most well-known, widely-read, and celebrated figures, I connected to the life-changing words that she penned in her books without realizing that her words were connected to a beating heart. bell was more than an avatar deserving of veneration.Seven years ago, one of the organizers charged with curating her residency at the New School extended an invitation to join bell in a public conversation on manhood, alongside educators Oman Frame, Ron Scapp ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I have been thinking a lot about grief and love, having recently lost three of my most beloved and influential Black women elders, beginning with bell in December of 2021 and then my paternal grandmother, Gloria Evadne Atherton on March 18, 2022, and four days later, my paternal aunt, my Auntie Karen Marie Mason.I have been thinking about how difficult and inspiring it has been to really come to grips with how someone you love deeply can be loved as deeply by anyone other than yourself and that this person might have loved others just as deeply, in ways and moments that you will never experience, but in ways that have felt as much like a communion as yours. This has been one of the most surprising aspects of the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Last December, the world lost an icon. This magazine lost a champion, a guiding voice. I, and so many others, lost a friend.When I think of bell hooks, so many memories come to mind. Lunches at the Dinner Bell in Berea. Singing "Ring My Bell" and "Gloria" in the dark when the electricity had gone out after a spring storm. Her love of music; how she adored Meshell Ndegeocello's album Pour une Âme Souveraine: A Dedication to Nina Simone. In 2015, bell and I collaborated on a special issue of this magazine that was devoted to her work. Over lunch at an Indian buffet, we discussed what we would include. Her critical theory and scholarship was so well known, and I wanted to highlight her creative work. She agreed, and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I sit down to finish reading Karen Salyer McElmurray's Voice Lessons outside of a coffee house. A cool fall breeze dilutes the air of the coffee's smell but carries the sound of voices from the tables around me. Bits of conversation float up, then off, into the air.I read. I eavesdrop. It feels like trespassing, to invite oneself to briefly inhabit the lives of others. But that is precisely what the reader is invited to do in the sixteen essays that comprise Voice Lessons. Some of the essays have been previously published; others have not. Each is like a conversation with a life-long friend: there is no holding back. Not in McElmurray's detailed exploration of cancer, nor the experience of growing up in a home that ... Read More PubDate: 2023-03-16T00:00:00-05:00
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