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#5: Ahistorical Blackness

WITH THESE HANDS // L. H. Moore

BONDYE BON // Monique L. Desir

SURVIVAL LIES // Irette Y. Patterson

THE EPIC OF SAKINA // Shari Paul

[ESSAY] “Black Empire: George Schuyler, Black Radicalism and Dieselpunk” by Phenderson Djèlí Clark

#6: Big Mama Nature

THE SOWER // Takim Williams

FURIOUS GIRLS // Juliana Goodman

VALLEY FIELDWORK // Stefani Cox

THE OTHER SIDE OF OTTO MOUNTAIN // Ivy Spadille

[POETRY] A combustible illness clots the blood // Terrance Brown

#7: Music

YARD DOG // Tade Thompson

TEDDY BUMP // Sheree Renee Thomas

AND SONGS DON’T END // Osahon Ize-Iyamu

THE PERCIVALS: THE BENNETT BENEFIT // Eboni J. Dunbar

SISTER ROSETTA THARPE AND MEMPHIS MINNIE SING THE STUMPS DOWN GOOD // LaShawn M. Wanak

[POETRY] ELLA HOUR // Uche Ogbuji

[POETRY] I SING THE LADY ELETRIC / Latonya Pennington

[POETRY] night chimes // Lisa Allen-Agostini

#8: Pilgrimage

THE BULLET // Stephen Kearse

MAGICIAN’S TRIAL // Sarah A. Macklin

PEDALING // Tuere T. S. Ganges

SAUDADE // Nelson Rolon

[POETRY] OCTOPUS // Martha Darr

[POETRY] BLACK RAPUNZEL // DOXA ZANNOU