Familiar Traces
Directed by Izzy Mana and Enrico Bellenghi, Familiar Traces is a fashion film narrative which explores the internal pressure that second generation Black British youth face from a young age
No Confidence
Irish poet Holly Darragh-Hickey explores feelings of introversion, guilt, inadequacy, and anger in this poem where “words throbbed under pressure”
Identity Academy
In this short story, Meirav Seifert tells the chilling tale of a school that erases individuality. With photography by Ashlyn Vickery
Flee
In this rich personal essay, Augusté Nomekaité feels the weight of history on her Lithuanian identity, family, dating life, and her grappling with the horrors of the present: the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Two Poems
Two poems by Kurt Van Ristell use the political and colonial history of tea to reflect on a complicated identity and how it is perceived by others
Accent Politics
In this personal essay, Zambian-born Mbiko Mayaka explores her relationship to language, touching on code switching and the manifestation of social hierarchy and inequalities on the tongue
J I A
To strive to listen, to keep listening, and to hold space for others is an act of self-service—for one's people, for people of color, and for Black and indigenous lives. J I A is a spoken word installation incorporating waacking on foreignness
Consuming My Country
“Before the Philippines’ war on drugs and long before World War II, Japanese migrants brought [halo-halo] to my country” – Isabella Peralta examines her Filipina heritage through a popular local dessert.
Tracing Identities
Brazilian artist Tóia Azevedo’s main artistic research is on the concept of identity. She uses her own body to make this search: in self portraits, mixed media collages, embroidery, performance.
Space/Time
As an Iranian female artist based in Arkansas, Ziba Rajabi’s work revolves around the desire to reconcile her relationship with two distinctive spaces: her homeland, Tehran, and place of residence, Arkansas.
there are ghosts fellating the machinery
“you & I are only limited by our limiting beliefs” – new in poetry by Jane Ayres.
Portrait of the Artist
Gabriela Kucuruza is a young Brazilian artist who works with the expressions of bodies, existence, colors, feelings and femininity.
Sculpting
In Iranian artist Zahra Mohamadi’s work, the goal is to ask questions, not judge. The artist’s job is to design a theme or framework for discussion.
forget-me-not
A poem on mental health by Jane Ayres.
"The Last Word" & Others
Using both classical, and culturally specific tropes, such as skulls, along with Mummers, these artworks by Canadian artist Jamie Bradbury attempt to reveal anagnorisis, or a moment of startling discovery, leading to a form of personal resolution.
Hungry City
A sprawling essay engaging with ramen, New York, Teju Cole’s fiction, and hyphenated identities, by Vamika Sinha.
Cities and Eyes: The Twin Cities
New fiction inspired by Italo Calvino, by Zoe Jane Patterson.
absence of the latina intellectual: some abstract theory for your ass
New in milk & vodka, a searing poem about agency, sexuality and discrimination of women, by Kim Morales.
please see where the blood is darkest on my drawn brow
“the blood on my face diasporic / traveling down my cheek, a bumpy continent” - Kim Morales’ new poem evokes female violence and hints at the trauma of miscarriage.
The Joy of Jollibee
In this lyrical personal essay, Louise Gerodias reflects on the importance of the Jollibee fast-food chain in her own life and in Filipino culture at large.