Do people of color, including women of color among the victims, count for anything more than “things” viewed from the outside, in Gaitskill’s work? Noticed by a penetrating (white) gaze, to be sure, but all the same invisible.
Child upon child goes, and someone’s mother is no longer that.
MQR is pleased to announce that Suzi F. Garcia will be joining us as Online Editor this year.
“Show me the place,” he said.
I removed my shirt and pointed
to a tiny star above my heart.
at the Angel Island Immigration Station our bodies levitated in minutes, ticking, ticking, alive, alive; forgo mercy and forgo hunger; slurp the pig slop; our muscles in 1911, 1912, we turned ghost and ghost again
