“At Christmas there would usually be a huge family gathering—pleasant in a way, yet I remember being miserable. I couldn’t deal with all the people who sounded so sure of themselves when I didn’t feel sure of anything.” —Amy Clampitt buff.ly/3MvYtjq

"It was a complete leveling of my whole life. Everything had to be rebuilt. It was a kind of an annihilation of the self, an annihilation of the ego, right?” @lsmckee_ speaking with Beth Ward on Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine for ArtsATL ✨ buff.ly/3RC1q4R

This though.

We continue to add to this page. Zines, Books, and More: Free Reads for a Free Palestine publishersforpalestine.org/2024/01/10/16-…

If you're going crazy over these personal essays in The Cut, let me tell you about a little website called xoJane.

le bonheur (1965)

So honored to be included in this issue. Cannot thank Rosalind Bentley enough for her edits, her advice, and for giving my piece a home in these pages.

Wondering who you will find in the Spring 2024 #SouthernArtIssue? RaMell Ross, #WendyBrenner, Rose Marie Cromwell, Iheoma Nwachukwu, #DawoudBey, & Beth Ward, just to name a few! Order your copy today: oxfordamericangoods.org/products/issue…

“...something about textiles is tender to me.” – Atlanta-based artist Sonya Yong James in an interview with Beth Ward for the #SouthernArtIssue. Read more at: oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue… Art c/o the artist; whitespace; 📷 Russell Kilgore Jr.

At the Supreme Court, lawyers debate how many organs a woman has to lose before she can be allowed an abortion to save her life. At the New York court of appeals, lawyers declare that if a man raped too many women some of them have to shut up about it, out of fairness to him.

This is a strange way to say, “We invited Georgia State Patrol to our campus and they immediately fired tear gas and rubber bullets at our students.”

Verso Books is offering FREE ebooks on Palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions: tinyurl.com/ms9wvnhm

just like sylvia plath, i am aware. catastrophically aware.

You can’t arrest an idea whose time has come.

unbelievable that I'm supposed to give Columbia/Barnard students an exam on political theories of freedom after this

People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. —James Baldwin

What are we reading this May? With words from Beth Ward Sophia Adamowicz Elizabeth Sulis Kim Maria Hummer and others cunning-folk.com/book-club-post…

Many thanks to Cunning Folk for giving me the opportunity to consider the gorgeous, uncanny Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton (Dorothy, a publishing project) for the May edition of their What We’re Reading series ✨ cunning-folk.com/book-club-post…