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DOWNLOAD | The one in which a group of writers dissect the in-betweens.
For the better part of 2024 and 2025, I battled against an unfounded impostor syndrome as I questioned whether or not this project I had was worth the time, the planning I put into it, and what gap I was filling in the creative and cultural zeitgeist—because you simply can’t create for the sake of it, right? What questions are you answering? What makes your project unique?
2 days ago2 min read
Love, Grief, and Adolescent Trauma — Reviewing Kekla Magoon’s “The Minus-One Club”.
Magoon’s sensitive and authentic portrayal of grief and healing emphasizes the importance of acknowledging one’s pain, allowing oneself to lean on others for support, and finding resilience in the face of tragedy. The book serves as a valuable reminder that healing is not a linear process but a journey unique to each individual.
2 days ago4 min read
Unpacking the dance of juxtapositions and metaphysics portrayed in Sanaa el Alaoui’s “Aicha.”
El Alaoui’s short film is an emotional and entrancing study into the experiences of violence and abuse that Moroccan women face, and how society continues to fail them where laws are concerned. In portraying a young woman’s life in fragments, we get to stand in her shoes and rummage through the liminal space, trying to understand how we got here, how we hope to move from it, and what lies ahead.
2 days ago5 min read
Introducing LMNL Issue #1: “A Hallway Is Just a Hallway.”
This zine is a collection of people who refuse to be just one thing. It is for the ones who have had to ‘sew their heads back on’ and the ones who are still ‘shifting shapes’ in the fog. We turn the mundane into the intellectual because, without our stories, a hallway is just a hallway. But with them, it is a path to the glass cities, a deck on a pirate ship, and we turn a bedroom into a space where the ills of the world do not exist, and a dream can grant you a seat at a tab
7 days ago5 min read
Deafness As a Kind of Resistance — Reviewing Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic.”
Deaf Republic serves as a poignant reminder of human’s potential to hurt other humans, on the extent of our monstrosity, our potential to rise against that which hopes to destroy us. It is a lesson in resistance, the power we wield in community, as well as the importance of solidarity and the way the human spirit does not waiver in pursuit of truth. Like most poetry collections, it is a must-read that doubles down as a call-to-arms and a mirror for the world to view itself an
7 days ago3 min read
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