Bed Stuy – Buy or Die?
Editor At Large Melody Nixon has published a well-researched, thoughtful essay on the nuances of being a lower-income white gentrifier in the fast-changing, historically black neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.... Read More
This Art Gives Life: An Interview with Queer Rebels
Kim Garcia interviews the Directors of Queer Rebels Queer Rebels is a production company that curates experimental film, music, and performance by queer and trans artists of color. Their live... Read More
Against a Corrective Narrative
By Scott Dievendorf, Fiction Editor It’s a familiar narrative—our protagonist plunges into the depths of hell, witnesses a world unparalleled to that on earth (horrifying, challenging, against common virtue), undergoes... Read More
WJDC? Would Junot Díaz Cry?
Submissions Close to the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Navigating Feelings of Inferiority By Christopher Soto “When I finished [Slow Lightning by Eduardo C. Corral] I bawled. Wise and immense.”... Read More
Transgender Day of Remembrance
You may write me down in history With your bitter twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. –Maya Angelou, from “Still I Rise”... Read More
How Battle Rap Solved Racism
By Belal Rafiq, Associate Editor During the mid 2000s, battle rap’s popularity surged. Companies like Grind Time Now (GTN) and the Ultimate Rap League (URL) employed a business model that... Read More