The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Pulled Me Through The Grief of Family Loss
Characterized by the wish for peace, his art is being shunned during war
Characterized by the wish for peace, his art is being shunned during war
His instinct was to get me out of there instead, and I never forgave him for it
I didn’t know why I was doing it at the time, but something had short-circuited inside me and I now lived for these plants
Cease, seize, seizure, caesura: These are words I want to use when trying to describe the blank spaces within a line, a night, a life
I thought the activism I wanted to be a part of was more powerful in Washington D.C. or Oakland, but L.A. kept pulling me back
I’m supposed to believe my womanhood is ending but instead, I have been handed a new beginning
An obit’s very form announces its most important news. This first, crucial piece of information is already redundant
I wish I could give back my blood and start over as someone who didn’t inherit sexual violence
I've always had a close and at times uncomfortable relationship with milk and its associations
Every apocalypse, even the small ones, makes us ravenous for closeness
As I transition toward the masculine, my feelings about resembling an instrument modeled after the female body continue to shift
Even in death, I can only imagine my parents exactly as they were in life