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Black Is Over (Or, Special Black) by Tressie McMillan Cottom with Artwork by Merav Kamel
Above: from the Sketchbook of Merav Kamel
I’m looking for a mixed girl Asian, Jamaican
I’m looking for a mixed girl Puerto Rican, Haitian
I’m looking for a mixed girl
Cuban and White
I’m trying to get mixed up tonight like
Excuse me miss, what’s your name, where ya
from, can I come—T-Pain, “Mix’d Girl”
“Black people are over.” That is how it was said to me once.
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Address to The New School Graduating 2020 Class from Lara Love Hardin
Lara Love Hardin will be giving this speech on LIVE with LIT as a part of LIT’s Commencement 2020 this Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm. Join here.
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I have trouble walking through doorways. I never get it right, I’m close, but always seem to catch a shoulder, a forearm, a hip on the frame. I forget that I am someone who never quite gets it right, until I find the mysterious bruises on my body and remember. As a child I used to walk down a city block and then abruptly make a right turn and walk into the wall of a building.
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Commencement 2020 with LIT Magazine
Welcome to LIT’s first ever virtual commencement and graduation party!
Click here on May 19th at 7PM to join.We have every reason to be thankful this graduation season. Lives have been changed, friendships made, goals achieved, and opportunities re-envisioned. Commencement speeches by Lara Love Hardin and Rachel B. Neumann will inspire you to reshape your story and to find strength in the struggles ahead, and Kristen Roupenian will offer her take on how to pursue life and success after the MFA, and how to navigate the digital world.
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“Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach” Reviewed by LaVonne Roberts
Forged In Steel, A Nation Divided
In Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit, Eliese Colette Goldbach reflects on her childhood as the second daughter in a Polish Catholic family and her three years as a steelworker. As a little girl in Cleveland, she could often see the rust-colored buildings of the city’s steel plant in the distance when she rode through town with her father. Eliese never imagined her identity would become Utility Worker number 6691, or that Trump would become President.
“I wasn’t supposed to be a steelworker. I wasn’t supposed to spend my nights looking up at the bright lights on the blast furnace,
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Deb Olin Unferth LIVE
JOIN US TODAY, APRIL 28 AT 7:30 p.m.
For the third installment of LIT Magazine’s newest series, LIVE with LIT, where book reviews come to life!
We all know by now, the cruelty of slaughterhouses and the inhumane treatment of animals all around the world, but have you ever thought of what it’d be like to see the world through the eyes of a chicken? Find out tonight when LaVonne Roberts interviews Deb Olin Unferth author of, Barn 8, a novel centered on the topic of industrial farming and the risks of ranking human life,
