What happens when a witch is black? This piece is a salute to the transformational beauty of cosplay & all the laughter it inspires.
Editor Guillermo Gil's latest book review - The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms - explores definitions and uses of autofictional writing.
This work of experimental poetry examines the interaction between the happy user of the open source format and the automated surface.
This autoethnographic essay offers a musing on the intricate relationship between language, writing and identity through an autoethnographic account of my reading and writing experience from childhood to present, and from China to the UK via Germany.
In a single paragraph that represents one long thought, “I’d say I was a runner” explores the act of running as a form of self-therapy.
The otherness is not somewhere out there. It’s in me. Still, my search did not stop to this discovery. It took me profoundly even further. It took me to love and poetry.
"Give Me a Strawberry Cockroach" is the first article in our 2023 special issue on laughter and tells a story of Japanese language learning and performance.
Guillermo Gil's newest book review examines Lidia Marte's Cimarrón Pedagogies, Notes on Auto-Ethnography as a Tool for Critical Education.
"Horse, Therapy is a story of my own experience and is a commentary on trauma, both in animals and humans."
In this 2nd of my Processing Parental Grief series, Calliandra receives a letter from her mother weeks after her death.
Catholic Boy Fights the Devil in the Mohawk River Valley is a short story that’s set in upstate New York during World War II. At a time when America was fighting fascist devils abroad, many were struggling with the devil’s influence at home.
I share the complexity of my frustration about a failed site visit to the British Museum and wonder about the meaning of the experience.