Tamiko Beyer
Transgender Day of Remembrance
I’m feeling under the weather today, so this will be an abbreviated version of the post I had planned to write today. Every year in November the LGBTQ community holds a space – memorials, events, tributes – for those who…
A Confessional Post About One Hawk
I went for a walk in the park down the street because it is a sun-drenched fall day, the leaves still clinging to the trees in all sorts of brilliant shades of dying. At the top of the hill, the…
Empathy and the Jury
Eight of us filed back into the courtroom, into the juror’s box and sat down. As everyone else in the room also sat, the judge peered at us over her glasses. “Jurors,” she said, “I understand that you would like…
Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival
First, let’s clear our throats. Willie Perdomo That was Willie Perdomo at last week’s Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival. (I took all of these videos with my sweetie’s new Flip camera, so please forgive the jiggles and wiggles ???…
Salt of This Sea and Suheir Hammad’s breaking poems
I went to see Salt of This Sea (Milh Hadha al-Bahr) the other night. And I found myself turning to Suheir Hammad’s breaking poems the next morning. ramallah rooster outside hot rock hard times threw up too much everything beautiful…
