The dubious distinction, and literary legacy, of Leo Szilard, the physicist and writer "who did the most to create the atomic bomb, and the most to stop it."

In Berlin, I watched us queer women watching each other. But nobody seemed to lead anyone inside. Could cruising ever be a part of lesbian culture the way it is for gay men? 

I figured an ideal period of mourning for my father would have been free of disturbances of my own creation. So much for that.

The author of How to Love a Jamaican on love in its various forms, finding belonging and mediating identity between and beyond borders.

First Nations people don't believe in crossing the border, but the imaginary boundaries we're forced to move between can create very real divides.

In narratives that hinge on proving our humanness, Indigenous people sit stilled in the role of the described. As the described, our words are pit against us.