Cover Photo: Stills from 'Poetic Justice' and 'Cooley High'/Columbia Pictures and American International Pictures
What ‘Poetic Justice’ Can Teach Us About Black Art Beyond Trauma

Can Black writing be seen as more than a product of our death and pain?

Dec 17, 2020
Cover Photo: The AOL lego: a simple and flat illustration of what is meant to be a human running away
When the Internet Still Felt Like a Place, I Went There to Forget About My Body

On the internet, I didn’t have a body. It was like astral projecting into a secret treehouse with other non-embodied weirdos.

Dec 16, 2020
Cover Photo: An image of the author on her birthday as a child. She and her mother rest their arms on each other’s shoulders and are looking at each other.
Learning to Love My Mother’s Body and My Own

Envy feels a lot like binging—the more you give into it, the worse you feel.

Dec 16, 2020
Cover Photo: A starry illustration of a woman looking up into the cosmos, nude, stripes from window blinds stretched across her body and into the universe.
First Nude
How to put this: I’m alive.
Dec 14, 2020
Cover Photo: Photographs by Raymond T, Thought Catalogue, Daniel Tuttle, and Mélissa Jeanty/Unsplash
Choose Your Quarantine House (I – IV)
under the dark sitting pretty / on the patch of hardwood floor / where confession / and callousness meet
Dec 02, 2020
Cover Photo: illustration of a black-haired woman in a peach-pink dress dragging a chair to the bottom of the sea; above, rolling black hills in the distance are set against a starry sky, with a full moon reflecting on the water's surface
Reimagining Light
The water flows through hollow bones and returns / as a song. It sounds familiar in the beginning / Then always changes.
Nov 02, 2020
Cover Photo: Photographs courtesy of the author
How to Be a Husband
I was husbanding—providing for my household by physically taking care of my land and livestock. And they were providing for me.
Dec 14, 2020
Cover Photo: Photo by Christian Gertenbach/Unsplash
What Does It Take to Be a Woman Who Has It All?
When we look at women who work, what remains unseen and what is expected to remain hidden?
Dec 03, 2020
Cover Photo: Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult
My Great-Grandfather’s Saddle Rug Helps Me Remember a Tibet That’s Gone
I borrowed a bicycle and explored, in the same way my great-grandfather had gone about on his pony sixty years earlier.
Nov 30, 2020
Cover Photo: illustration of the dark grey silhouette of a scuba diver illuminated in a white-yellow pool of light from the sun above, floating or sinking against an underwater backdrop of blues and greens
Self-Contained, Underwater
If she could speak, she would tell me she’s glad my reckoning has arrived.
Dec 11, 2020
Cover Photo: A colorful and fun illustration of 5 friends drinking wine and reacting rowdily to what they're watching on TV.
And Another and Another and Another Glass of Rosé
We’re each of us on our third glass of rosé when the Bachelorette sends home the Last Man of Color.
Dec 04, 2020
Cover Photo: A black and white photo of a baby's hands grasping at the hand of an adult.
Olive Olivia Olive Olive
With the baby came trouble, but not any of the kind the mommy blogs warned Ana about.