“It’s All About Desire”: hannah baer and Erica Dawn Lyle Talk Trans Freedom and Joy
Within the flood of new trans memoirs and books offering their definitive takes on trans theory in the past few years, I gratefully found…
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On Whiteness
In 2017, I started working with Claudia Rankine and a collective called the Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). For their inaugural project they were curating…
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Breathing Resistance: An Interview with Sahar Te
The sound of breathing permeated the space. It was unsettling not only because this encounter happened in the middle of a pandemic in which…
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Oliver Lee Jackson, the People’s Painter
“The Painter” moves expansively but in fits across the second side of Dogon A.D., a pendulous free jazz masterpiece self-released by Julius Hemphill in…
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Caribbean Being and Becoming in “Fragments of Epic Memory”
In his 1992 Nobel Lecture The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory, Derek Walcott characterized Caribbean poetry as a remaking of fragmented memory. The Art…
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The Bodies That Scramble India’s “Constitutions”
Visibly shaken professors made a special announcement at our university’s recent Race Equity Caucus meeting. They’d been harassed for participating in a virtual conference…
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The Anxious Nostalgia of Steven Shearer
There is a variety of rose called “Nostalgia” that is white on the inside and trimmed in red. The nostalgia rose is not a great metaphor for nostalgia itself, which is…
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Season 5, Episode 3: Dana Kopel
In this episode Lauren Wetmore speaks with writer and organizer Dana Kopel about her widely-read article “Against Artspolitation: Unionizing the New Museum,” published in…
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Seeking Specificity in Postcommodity
To be given the opportunity to travel for the sake of art, even if it’s from one small dusty Prairie city to another, is…
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Plant People
What is it about the threat of impending death that drives us into the arms of Mother Nature? In 2020, there was a curious…
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