The M Word Stories: Rebecca Hankins
It’s been my goal to make people understand that Islam is extremely vast and diverse and, especially as an African-American Muslim woman, that our representation is important and that… More
Tenements, Towers & Trash
The exact history of the egg cream is of some debate, but the most popular claim is that it was created in the 1890s by Louis Auster… More
A Story of Men
Welcome aboard flight BA 763 to London, Heathrow—would you please turn off all electronic devices, return your seats to the… More
Lovingly, Father
From a bitter little drunk / came the magic / Thrice I absentmindedly played an album / to cry w/ Julio Jaramillo / + cranked the volume / that… More
This Is Not a Good News Story
What gets coded as what, and how, seems an almost week-to-week question posed in our media and discourse…There are tangible consequences to the language and narratives we use. More
The PEN Ten with Safiya Sinclair
I think the responsibility of the writer is to say something true, to give voice to untold histories, to say something sincere about personhood, to speak from the margins… More
The M Word Stories: Hussein Rashid
In America, people are always finding ways to try to silence things they don’t understand. Right now, it’s religion; before, it was race. More
Dylan Edwards on “Fun Home”
Fun Home gets banned for the same reasons it resonates: It tells queer people we exist, and that oppression can kill us... More
Two Poems by Mário de Andrade
I’ll go to estados-unidos / and tell every lady on the estados-unidos / that I have nothing to do with them / because i have you. More
Wajahat Ali Interviews Timothy Snyder for Read the Resistance, August 2017
If things don’t go well, there are going to be considerable risks later…while the risks are limited, people have to get out and practice being a little courageous. More