Author: Yasmin Adele Majeed

women in patterned cloth dresses, in motion, perhaps in dance

The “We” in Barbara Jane Reyes’s Invocation to Daughters

Women’s writing is so often ghettoized and hidden from view. Women write from the private, individual “I,” while men write of the public and the universal “we.” In her newest collection, Invocation to Daughters, Filipino American poet Barbara Jane Reyes boldly and loudly refuses that division.

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Nightmares by the Border in The Line Becomes a River

In the desert, by the border, Francisco Cantú dreams of wolves. They are strange, menacing figures whose appearances portend a message he can’t quite figure out. Are they stalking him, the way he and the rest of the Border Patrol trail Mexican migrants through the Sonoran desert? Are they a subconscious reenactment of his waking…

Reading the Migrant Experience in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People

Reading the Migrant Experience in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People

Throughout Temporary People, there is a strange, often violent shapeshifting between the human and not. Roaches become men, men become passports, tongues sever themselves from their bodies—what does it mean to be human when you’re not recognized as such? When you’ve left a part of yourself behind?