(Edited by Kathryn Hummel) It was either me or Benjamin Franklin who said that those who agree to the excessive permissions of the Facebook app in exchange for the opportunity …
Here and There (Jacob Parsons)
Edited by Kathryn Hummel ‘Will you permanently move to Sarajevo?’ my friend M asks me. It seems inevitable. It’s in Sarajevo that the most important aspects of my life play …
Lady Green Sleeves (Ewa Mazierska)
(Edited by Kathryn Hummel) In the early 1980s, when I was in the last year of secondary school in Toruń, a historic city in northern Poland, I was asked to …
The Permit (Eran Asoulin)
(edited by Kathryn Hummel) We stopped at a car park on the Israeli side of the Kalandia checkpoint near Jerusalem, through which one must pass in order to enter Ramallah. …
Waiting for Divinity (Karen Bell)
(Edited by Kathryn Hummel) ‘Are you standing in the street? What’s that background noise?’ Prof. Iris, a friend and mentor who let me keep her after undergrad, called me from …
Changing the Map: On Rape Culture in Australia (Julianne Negri)
Edited by Kathryn Hummel ‘We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change.’ — Ursula Le Guin Predawn. I like …
The Smoke from Burning Bridges (Jennifer Compton)
(Edited by Kathryn Hummel) What did he do after he had pressed his ultimate Send at 1-49 am? Weep, pray, rant? Reach for a bottle? Rush into the street? Lie …
On Diaspora: A Short Essay (Ayokunle Falomo)
I didn’t know to dig deep into my own history until I heard Ariana, Loyce and Mwende talk about how deep the colonizers dug their hands into our soils. And …
Hiding within the Diaspora with a Sharky Pen Name
(CB Mako)
Edited by Ivy Alvarez When I first wrote fanfiction in 2013, then transitioned to nonfiction in 2016, I knew I would continue writing using a pen name. My grandfather had …
Tobruk to Labuan: the life and letters of Brigadier ‘Hugh’ Norman (Amanda Hickey)
As to the war souvenirs From Hugh to Ethel 7 November, 1943 Darling…If you must destroy the letters I suppose you must, but one day I thought we might write …