Southern Exposure, 1968 I know the South, warn her but she wants to see Mardi Gras and I love her madly. Jackson, Mississippi, has colored restrooms unmarked because illegal, watched by a rooster man, cap of orange, neck of red shouting, poking fingers in my chest scared by my beard, her beads. She pulls me back on the bus. Peace, she says. Peace. Which saves a lot of grief. Beyond […]
MOON Shine | The White issue
“As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where […]
Waking up white | An interview with Debby Irving
Debby Irving grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts, a wealthy white community where she was surrounded by privilege she thought was standard: large, stately homes, country club memberships, summers at a lake house, private schools, and an Ivy League college education. Though she occasionally encountered people of color, their absence in her world powerfully implied that they were less qualified or competent. On the rare occasions she did question her reality, […]
Beate Sigriddaughter | The white baby
It was 1979 and in a nearby village one black woman could not contain her surprise that a white baby came out exactly the way that her own had come out, so perfectly have minds created difference. Beate Sigriddaughter lives and writes in New Mexico, USA, the Land of Enchantment. Her work has received several Pushcart Prize nominations and poetry awards. In 2018 FutureCycle Press will publish her poetry collection […]
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