by Ksenia Firsova | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Science Fiction as an Abolitionist Tool While accepting the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014, Ursula K. Le Guin called for science-fiction writers to use their power of imagination to envision a world no...
by Jacob Soule | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
The Limits of Urbanism Some books are published at the wrong time. Richard Sennett’s and Pablo Sendra’s Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruption in the City is one such book. Published by Verso during the early peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in April, the work is...
by Ruddy Lopez | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Lineage and Language Throughout my adulthood, curanderas have said that my grandmother watches over me. I knew this was true when my mother came back from a visit to Mexico five years ago. She opened her suitcase and handed me a white plastic rosary and a black shawl....
by Julissa Guerrero Iniguez | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Euphoria’s Minor Mother Euphoria debuted on HBO in 2019, meeting with almost universal critical acclaim. The show is a teen drama that explicitly confronts controversial subjects like drug addiction, abusive relationships, and mental illness. At the show’s center is...
by Daniel Dominguez | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Why A Tribe Called Quest’s “Excursions” Is the Only Hip-Hop Song You Need On June 19, 2020, producers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammed teamed up with the legendary jazz musician Roy Ayers to release Roy Ayers JID002, the second installment of their provocatively...
by Charlotte Taylor | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
Young, Black, and Magical: The Renaissance of YA Afrofuturism and Speculative Fiction In the late 2010s, an explosion of young adult (YA) novels by Black women flooded through a previously White-dominated sphere, topping publisher lists week after week. Novels like...
