Anastasia Higginbotham

Anastasia Higginbotham is a Brooklyn-based artist whose banned children’s book Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness (Dottir Press, 2018) invites white children to confront anti-blackness and dismantle white supremacy. Her other books address death, sex, abuse, and divorce.Anastasia Higginbotham is a Brooklyn-based artist whose banned children’s book Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness (Dottir Press, 2018) invites white children to confront anti-blackness and dismantle white supremacy. Her other books address death, sex, abuse, and divorce.

Crit

Nice White Ladies

WOMEN AND HONOR: Some Notes on Lying, an immense work of fourteen pages by the lesbian poet and white feminist Adrienne Rich, begins with a clarification in parentheses at the top of page one: “These notes are concerned with relationships between and among women.” Drawn from remarks Rich made at

VOLUME 1: ISSUE 5
WINTER 2022

To Be Real

‘The Means: A Novel’ by Amy Fusselman

MARINER BOOKS, SEPTEMBER 2022, 256 PP. AMY FUSSELMAN WRITES like a comic—or a “stand-up philosopher,” as Mel Brooks’s character describes himself at the ancient Roman unemployment office window in History of the World, Part I. No matter how serious the topic, Fusselman reveals the humor. Her 2007 memoir, 8: All

VOLUME 2: ISSUE 1
SPRING 2023

Repair

‘Ordinary Notes’ By Christina Sharpe

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2023, 392 pp. In July 2016, I knelt on the floor amid piles of dirty laundry in my apartment in Brooklyn, sorting clothes by what goes in the dryer and what doesn’t. Nobody was around me and no one needed me, so I could feel

VOLUME 2: ISSUE 3
FALL 2023