Meditations on Kinship

Meditations on Kinship

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Cities are also nature, the Earth reminds us
Under ordinary circumstances, living across the street from the woodlands of Forest Park in New York City is a balm. Right now, though, the trees are…
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Reading recommendations from coldland
Louise Erdrich's The Sentence. Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry. Essays from Susan Dominus, Sarah Smarsh, Hector Tobar, Nina St. Pierre, and more…
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Wishes amid the Thinning Veil
My sister took this photo of our mom and me in May 1998, in Asheville, after our granny (our mom’s mom) died.
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Family stories we (tell ourselves we) can't tell
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Staying connected & present in these times
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Taking T for Jesus
My new Baffler essay, on the transphobic evangelicals hawking hormones, and also developments closer to home; also, books, events, and links of note.
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So many ancestor links
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Art & Kinship: Laila Lalami's The Dream Hotel
The Ancestor Trouble newsletter has a new name, Meditations on Kinship. In this installment: Laila Lalami's gripping The Dream Hotel and what it owes to…
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Art & Kinship: Marie Mutsuki Mockett's The Tree Doctor
I first encountered Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s work in her engaging, quietly profound, and beautifully and wryly observed Letter From a Japanese…
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No care plan outside of the Rapture
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Art & Kinship: Garrard Conley's All the World Beside
I met Garrard Conley at a dinner in Boston years ago.
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Doorways and collages and novels and more
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