A version of this short story previously appeared in Small Axe after winning second place in its Caribbean literary competition. I wanted to make it available again here (with a few small edits). I The girl the three boys are watching emerge from the river casts a long shadow, noon…

She dreamed of becoming a makeup artist and clothing designer — This story is part of Know Their Names, a collection of articles illuminating and celebrating the lives of Black Trans women. Looking at photographs of Chanel Scurlock, it’s difficult not to get lost in her eyes — deep and piercing yet playful. The false eyelashes she particularly loved to wear…

On reclaiming the story of my womanhood — I think this story begins at a bar in Greenwich late last year, when New York was under a record freeze. I was meeting an old friendly African acquaintance I hadn’t seen in nearly a year. Some months before, he had messaged me on social media to say he might…

This short story of mine was originally published, under my old name, in the first issue of the now-defunct literary journal Belletrist Coterie in 2012. …

On The Antioch Review, Daniel Harris, and Transphobia In an extraordinary post from the 1st of May, The Antioch Review — a literary journal whose name, in this moment, reflects the antiquatedness of the views in one of its most recent articles — decided to publicise some of its most…