Come Get This Diversity!
Come Get This Diversity! (Newsletter Archive)
“A clear-eyed critique of our country's prison system, along with the profit and racism inherent in them.” —Salon
“Brilliant, layered, funny, and so insightful about the way communities, like hearts, are made and unmade. Alejandro Varela is a marvel.”—Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
“The Ancestors Schools A Basic Bitch.”-Airea D. Matthews.
“I don’t trust answers because you are looking for definiteness in a world of complex meaning. Rather than trying to find answers that will not fulfill me, I’m trying to find peace in the humanity of uncertainty."-Jose Olivarez
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”— James Baldwin
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” —Audre Lorde
“The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination it is the property of the language itself.”-Derek Walcott
Latinx Writers Run Things!
Beyonce Was Right!
Neruda on the Park
The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
The Sex Lives Of African Women
Blue Skinned Gods
The Rib King
The Eternal Audience of One
Eat The Mouth That Feeds You
The Prophets
The Ruin of Everything
Blood on The Fog
How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Are You Ready For A Revival?
You cannot have enough, HORSEPOWER
Head Off & Split
Every Body Looking
Words Are Magic!
The Kindest Lie
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Come Get Your Literary Diversity!
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.