Sculptor and performance artist Doreen Garner is challenging the typical images of white and male or sexualized representations of busty white women seen across American tattoo shops.
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10 Questions We Asked Writer and Sociologist Eve L. Ewing
The earliest poem I remember writing, I was 6 years old. It was a poem about my dead guinea pig and how sad I was that he died.
Read MoreThe Art of Living: An Interview with My Father, Poet and Activist T.J. Reddy
There must be a direct correlation to art in terms of creativity and imagination. It’s important to leave the environment and your life more beneficial and beautiful after you leave it than before you came to it. That’s how I see the art of living.
Read MoreHaving a Genderqueer Partner
People’s reactions to my partner — and, when we are together, to us — make one thing very clear: People are utterly confused about gender.
Read MoreState of Emergence: On June Jordan and “Coming Clean” in Disaster
America must come clean to arise from its present material and moral wreckage.
Read MoreTheirs and Ours: Terrorism’s “Inclusivity” Argument
I don’t know that we can say with clarity that arguing for the application of the term “terrorist” to certain individuals is actually useful.
Read MoreCan an Unmasked Nation Worsen This Halloween?
Why haven’t we received better and more inclusive responses from the costume industry?
Read MoreMy DACA Story: Laura Hernandez
When my papi and mami crossed the border they gave me the opportunity to be able to cross many personal borders in my own life.
Read MoreRalph Angel and Darla: Masculinity and Femininity in the Context of Queen Sugar
Ralph Angel’s behavior speaks to a larger paradox in the culture which is that while men are proven to mature later in life than their female counterparts, women are expected to follow the lead of men.
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