April 20, 2018
“Memory as Missionary Position” and Other Works by Queer Indigenous Women Poets
Over at Lithub, Natalie Diaz curates a beautiful bi-monthly series of work by queer Indigenous women poets. She introduces this installment with the hope that it will function like Mojave […]
November 30, 2017
A Letter to My Women’s Studies Students
I probably won’t tell you this is up until after I turn in grades. I probably shouldn’t tell you that the grading system itself is archaic and not a measure […]
February 8, 2017
An interview with Natalie Diaz
What seems urgent to you right now in your writing life? And as a Mojave and Pima American, how do you handle, balance, or negotiate expectations that you are always […]
March 25, 2016
Vocabulary Lesson
What’s the relationship between being able to appreciate something and being able to speak about it? Last month I saw a performance—Black Girl: Linguistic Play, by Camille A. Brown’s dance […]
February 27, 2015
Natalie Diaz, Taking Over the Game
About a thousand years ago, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, I took several classes with the poet Ronald Wallace. In one of the workshops, we […]