Charmian Kittredge London accompanied her husband on his adventures and helped with his work—but like so many literary wives, she rarely gets her due Jack London and Charmian London in Hawaii Marcello ...

If we label a work as bilingual for using at least two languages, then how do we quantify a work as having more than one language? For example, would one call Megan Thee Stallion’s song “Hit My Phone” ...

From ride-hailing to door-to-door delivery apps, labor platforms have created a shining new way for millions across the globe to make a living, offering flexibility, autonomy, and low-entry barriers.

Sometimes you are reading a book—not even one by a well-known transphobic children’s author—and are struck, halfway through or near the end, by a bit of transphobia. Sometimes it’s load-bearing: Both ...

I often talk about how I created A Phoenix First Must Burn, my anthology of fantasy stories by black women authors, for my younger self, a girl who loved fantasy and science fiction and so desperately ...

One winter evening when I was fifteen, I attended a very thrilling, very strange dinner party with my family. My dad, an adoptee, had been invited to meet his biological father and siblings for the ...

To be an immigrant in America is to be a foreigner forever. The perpetual otherness is twice as bad for undocumented immigrants, who find themselves in the headlines almost daily, as the news attempts ...

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, supposedly a time to celebrate Americans with roots in Asia or the Pacific Islands. But functionally, it winds up being Asian American Month, with ...

Queer people have been writing historical fiction since before queerness existed—by which I mean, since before it was hammered into an antithesis to heterosexuality during the long nineteenth century.

Yet those same books would have had me believe that black people had never been on the giving or receiving end of the kind of love that cuts two souls from the same cloth. Love might be universal, ...

From the illustrated children’s book Beauty and the Beast by Walter Crane. Publication date given as [1874] in Spencer and as [1875] in the Osborne Collection catalogue. The first movie I saw in ...

We inherit far more from our families than a surname. Our progenitors leave their mark on us in ways we often can’t understand until we pay our own rent. Some of these qualities, of course, are ...