Ten Seconds in the California Sun: The Murder of Andy Lopez Cruz
By Cecca Ochoa, Editorial Non-fiction Editor Photo Credit: Reuters/Noah Berger Each person blinks once every two to ten seconds, that’s as many as five times in ten seconds, or, in... Read More
On “Pimping One’s Heritage,” or Things White Men Say to Feel Better about Themselves
by Sara Nović, writer, translator and founding editor of Redeafined. Having been at work on a novel about the civil wars in Yugoslavia for a few years now, I often find... Read More
Not Just Guilty: A White Response to the George Zimmerman Case
This is the first of two essays that reflect on what has happened in the months since the trial of George Zimmerman. You can read Apogee’s original response to the... Read More
A Queer Aperture: Mia Nakano and the Visibility Project
by Cecca Ochoa, Editor Mia Nakano is a photographer, served as the founding photo editor for Hyphen Magazine, and is currently the lead artist for the Visibility Project. In... Read More
The Gray Area: Gentrification in Manhattan's Hamilton Heights
by Alexandra Watson, Editor-in-Chief As a mixed-race graduate student at Columbia living in Hamilton Heights, a neighborhood in Harlem destined for “urban renewal,” my relationship to the word... Read More
"The Social Equation," by EJ Koh
Unexpected, bold, and full of the complex frustration that stereotyping invokes in the stereotyped: EJ Koh’s poem “The Social Equation,” is the next installment in our Overshare series.* “YOU... Read More