Featuring Tarfia Faizullah, Jenny Zhang, CAAAV, and more.

‘That first day in America, she didn’t know the difference between police officers and immigration officers, or between waiting rooms and holding cells.’

‘We begged our bodies for / alchemy, death into new lungs, we fed bread / to the jinn’

“in the jungle they hide until / the seekers, bearing lime leaves jail / them in the silver night.”

Queer Asian American history, “racist Asians,” Bobby Jindal’s shaky start, and two landmark birthdays

‘Our apartment, our home, became an unfamiliar space. We still slept in the same queen bed, but no longer did we speak of upgrading to the capacious king. We could now easily fit two additional people in the valley of the bedsheet between us.’

I don’t teach my girls / to brave the violence of sun, sons, or stings. / When resources run out, don’t sit there and behave. / Abandon hive.