Category: Columns
Postcards to the Future: HORRIFIC / Metta Sama
In this poem Metta Sama presents a series of impactful statements on race in everyday life that, in the aggregate, convey the aggression of supremacist/bullying performative utterances. WhyWeCan’tHaveNiceThings# I …
Postcards to the Future: HORRIFIC / Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves
In this untitled poem, Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves pulls the lens on racial violence all the way back to explore the notion of “intra” racial violence, killing among members of …
Postcards to the Future: HORRIFIC / Duriel E. Harris
In this long poem, Duriel E. Harris uses the list as a formal device to show an accumulation of the concepts of danger, horror, memory, within/through the body and the outside …
Postcards to the Future: HORRIFIC / Adrian Piper
In this work, pioneering conceptual artist, scholar, and philosopher Adrian Piper presents one of the earlier victims of racial brutality in the second decade of this century, Trayvon Martin. …
Postcards to the Future: HORRIFIC / Dawn Lundy Martin
How does one approach writing about trauma? In this interview excerpt co-editor Dawn Lundy Martin negotiates the waters between memory, catharsis, normalization, destabilization and social change. This interview between Dawn …