By “April” Yueyi Zhu One day when my mother was in kindergarten, she was being loud around my grandmother who was cooking. Her behavior resulted in my grandmother chopping off her little finger. My mother screams and prosecutes like Queen of Hearts, just like hers did. My mother claims that my father loves her for…
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By Rebecca Bacon Ehlers One of the first memories I have of Burkina Faso, where I lived for two years, was of seeing a little girl through the window of a Peace Corps vehicle who was about five or six years old and had a baby on her hip. It makes me laugh to remember…
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by Gustavo Carvajal If you happen to be a man your answer to this question will be different from a woman’s. Personal experience and the part of the globe you inhabit will also shape your answer. But let’s say you were an explorer from the early 19th century traveling from a distant land, then; your answer would…
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“Today I Touched My Queer Body Until It Became Cathedral” by Jess X Snow in Kailua, Hawaii. Photo by Chad Shomura By Jess X Snow The moment I walked away from painting this piece, I knew it was going to be defaced, I just didn’t know how soon. I made this piece as a prayer…
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By Rebecca Simmons The images that you see below are of messages from Guatemalan indigenous peoples, many of whom call themselves “human rights defenders”. The people who wrote the messages have endured tremendous hardship. Historic trauma resonates throughout generations from a decades-long internal armed conflict that began in the late 20th century and has been…
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Meditations on death, grief, and resilience across two cultures.
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