Harm and the Trump Era: Four Years of Reading
With Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial underway in the Senate and as the United States ushers in a Biden presidency, we’re taking some time to look back over the past four years—to bring into...
View Article#WeToo: About the Art
#WeToo is a collection of essays, poems, creative nonfiction, and experimental works published in the Journal of Asian American Studies and in part here on The Margins, as part of a special...
View ArticleA Reading List for Abolitionist Imagination and Practice
Our ideas and visions for alternative futures emerge through ongoing processes of learning, discussion, and practice. Fred Moten highlights how study is a political activity, a practice of studying...
View Article“We Must Regard the Revolution as Unfinished”: On the 50th Anniversary of...
March 26, 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the day that Bangladesh declared independence, the day that began a nine-month Liberation War, encapsulating a history that includes the legacies of...
View ArticleTexts and Authors for Teaching Asian American Literature
Editor’s Note: To mark the 20th anniversary of September 11, we invited five NYC educators to discuss teaching Asian American literature and using it to help students understand 9/11 and its ripple...
View ArticleLiving in Echo: About the Art
During the past several weeks at The Margins, we have published the Living in Echo notebook, a collection of essays, oral histories, and interviews by and with scholars, teachers, organizers, and...
View ArticleProtected: A Black And Asian Feminist Reproductive Justice Syllabus
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View ArticleWhat We’re Reading: Food Writing & Cookbooks
In time to celebrate New York Times Staff Writer Eric Kim’s debut cookbook, Korean American, we asked our Margins and Open City Fellows, Contributing Editors to The Margins, and Asian American...
View ArticleZuihitsu: Editor’s Note
This piece is part of the 随筆 | Zuihitsu notebook, which features original art by Satsuki Shibuya. In the past several years, I have often encountered zuihitsu and been delighted by what I’ve found. I...
View ArticleNotes on Zuihitsu
This piece is part of the 随筆 | Zuihitsu notebook, which features original art by Satsuki Shibuya. This week we published the 随筆 | Zuihitsu notebook, featuring interpretations on the genre from...
View ArticleZuihitsu: About the Art
In April 2022, we published the 随筆 | Zuihitsu notebook, which features twenty-one writers sharing interpretations of the Japanese genre. The notebook was created in collaboration with the artist,...
View Article随筆 | Zuihitsu
For the 随筆 | Zuihitsu notebook, twenty-one poets share pieces inspired by the Japanese genre. Translated from the Japanese as “following the brush,” zuihitsu is often characterized by a casual,...
View ArticleProtected: Wine: About the Art
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View ArticleWine
Lyrical writing provides a kind of alchemical prolonging of life to its subject, as wine provides to fruit or grain. Both act as living vessels of the history, memory, and care that their makers put...
View ArticleWine: Editor’s Note
This editor’s note is part of the Wine notebook, which features original art by Su Yu-Xin. Lyrical writing provides a kind of alchemical prolonging of life to its subject, as wine provides to fruit or...
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View ArticleCall for Art
The Margins seeks visual art to accompany an online folio of flash fiction on the theme of “Love Letters” edited by flash editor Yi Wei. What we are looking for: 15-20 pieces of visual art to...
View ArticleWhat We’re Reading: Food Writing & Cookbooks
In time to celebrate New York Times Staff Writer Eric Kim’s debut cookbook, Korean American, we asked our Margins and Open City Fellows, Contributing Editors to The Margins, and Asian American...
View ArticleEditors’ Note: Spring Will Come
The following editors’ note is part of the notebook Spring Will Come: Writings from East Turkistan, with art by Efvan. Spring has come. We welcome the new year with Nowruz, celebrated across cultures...
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