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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Tattoos, Black Bodies, and the Invisible Man Project with Doreen Garner
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.
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The 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.
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Having 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.
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State of Emergence: On June Jordan and “Coming Clean” in Disaster
America must come clean to arise from its present material and moral wreckage.
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Theirs 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.
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Can an Unmasked Nation Worsen This Halloween?
Why haven’t we received better and more inclusive responses from the costume industry?
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My 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.
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Ralph 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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