Winter, Issue One
Selections from our Winter issue include an excerpt from "1108, 217 & other familial fictions" by Jennifer Tatum-Cotamagana and "Seven Pictures" by Ben Berman. read full essay here
"1108:1910: I eat slower now. If I finish my food fast, I feel compelled to tell you how hungry I am. Conscious of how fast everyone else is eating. I got yelled at once, told to stop eating my food so fucking fast. Years later after four double-shooters of tequila, I was told that I should take better care to chew when I eat.
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"Riding Yemama
When a bus was late in Morocco, the word retard—short for retardez—would flash on the terminal screen. Of the seven pictures that I took during my weeklong conference, three were of delayed bus notifications. The bus from Essaouira wasn’t late, but it was called Yemama—and two more of the seven pictures were of that bus. One of Teresa and me on the stairs, entering Yemama; and another of us riding her—all the way to Casablanca. Now, when I come across these photos, I think of Susan Meisalas in Pictures from a Revolution asking, how could those be the photographs in which I’d risked so much?"