by Kaitlan Bui Kaitlan Bui is a writer from Orange County, California, currently based in London. Her work has appeared in diaCRITICS, Public Books, and HAD. She is now studying Migration, Diaspora Studies, and Vietnamese at SOAS, University of London as a Marshall Scholar; and preserving Vietnamese refugee histories with An Việt Archives.
Category: Artwork
Here I Am
by Katherine Madden Katherine Madden teaches Photography and Digital Art at Jesuit High School in Sacramento, California. She holds a PhD and MA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California and a BA in Film and Media Studies from UC Irvine. She is the recipient of the Annenberg and Sinatra Fellowships. She lives…
Nā Maka Pō
by Lehuauakea Lehuauakea is a Native Hawaiian artist and barkcloth-maker from Pāpaʻikou, Hawaiʻi. Their work addresses themes of environmental stewardship, cultural cosmologies, and contemporary Native Hawaiian identity. Grounded in traditional modality while advancing it to innovative forms, Lehuauakea builds on ancestral knowledge. Lehuauakea’s work has been exhibited globally and is held in prominent collections around…
Torn to Pieces
by Dimelza Broche Dimelza Broche is a Cuban-American artist residing in Jacksonville, Florida. She has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Florida and a Master’s degree from the University of Georgia. She exhibited herwork at Manifest Gallery, Marcia Wood Gallery, Era Contemporary Gallery, The Cummer Museum of Arts & Gardens, the S. Dillon…
Dissolution
by Holly Willis Artist’s Statement: These images are from a larger project titled “Film Studies” that transforms a scholarly practice of film analysis into a material practice that takes many forms. In this particular series, I move from writing about cinema, which I’ve done my entire academic life, to dissolving bits of film footage using…
Sasha Shrestha, “Two-Headed Calf”
Sasha Shrestha is an artist based in Boston. This cake is based off of the poem “The Two Headed Calf by Laura Gilpin.”
Difficulties (2), by Mike Dowley
Mike Dowley lives and works in his native Northern Virginia. He has shown his art locally and nationally, including at Arlington Arts Center (VA), Doris Mae (DC), Art at Kings Oaks (PA), Blue Spiral (NC), Atlantic Gallery (NYC) and the Phillips Collection, Washington DC. His work has been selected for exhibition by William Bailey, Yale University, and…
Boy Company, by Tony Wei Ling
Tony Wei Ling is a teacher, editor, and peer support worker living in Los Angeles. Currently, he’s a managing editor with Nat.Brut and The Rambling.
DeSmet, by Coyote Shook
Coyote Shook is a cartoonist, Appalachian expat, and PhD student living in Austin, Texas where they make comics about the intersections of disability and environmental studies. Their work has been featured in or is forthcoming in The Santa Fe Writers Project, Shenandoah, The San Antonio Review, Honey Literary Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, The Ransom Center Magazine,…
“Which Way” by Ashwini Bhasi
Traumatic events in early childhood can be catastrophic. They can irrevocably alter the neurobiology of survivors and negatively impact the entire trajectory of their lives. [1, 2, 3]. “Which Way” is a self-exploration attempt to answer the following questions. How do you release cellular memory of a traumatic experience trapped in your body? Can you…