Category: editorial

  • Kohlapuri Chappal Incident by S. Edwards

    Kohlapuri Chappal Incident by S. Edwards

    Sarah Edwards is a struggling writer deeply involved in experimentation with the English language and literature. Her work is forthcoming in Electric Cereal and Reality Hands. Kohlapuri Chappal Incident This is about the time when my mother sent me to buy Kohlapuri chappals[1] for her but it is not about the time that made it…

  • Why Modern American Racism Will Exist for Another Few Hundred Years by M. Pitter

    Why Modern American Racism Will Exist for Another Few Hundred Years by M. Pitter

    The murder of Michael Brown and the police intimidation and brutality that followed has pulled today’s mainstream discourse back into ascertaining how this country’s race problems could be resolved. Resolution of this historically American issue implies a sort of eradication of racism from American society. But how could this be achieved? Modern racism (as we…

  • Introducing the Black Gentrifier: An Emerging Social Anomaly by M. Pitter

    Introducing the Black Gentrifier: An Emerging Social Anomaly by M. Pitter

    Streaming in popular discourse has been the phenomenon of gentrification in which it appears mostly that young, open-minded, aesthetic-seeking white people move into low-income neighborhoods eventually causing the rent prices of these neighborhoods to rise and the blacks and Latinos who had lived in these hitherto-low-income neighborhoods can no longer afford to live there. Soon,…

  • Correlations between Heat and Hostility by M.Pitter

    Correlations between Heat and Hostility by M.Pitter

    In Act I Scene I of William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, the Earl of Westmoreland reckoned that the cause of the recent violence was due to the hot climate of the summer season. In Shakespeare’s famously enigmatic syntax, Westmoreland reflects and reasons: “On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there, Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald, That…

  • WTF: Should we be mad at Rolling Stone?

    WTF: Should we be mad at Rolling Stone?

    If you haven’t heard by now, Rolling Stone magazine has released the cover for its August 1st issue, featuring prominently the bushy visage of the Boston Marathon Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.