PinnedTaylor ByasinANMLYLanguage as Rugged Glass: A Review of Tajja Isen’s SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS: ESSAYS ON LIP SERVICEAs a Black woman often grappling with racism in my own work, I know intimately how writing about these experiences also means finding a way…May 19, 2022May 19, 2022
Taylor ByasLIPSTICK BOTTOMS (CHICAGO, IL — JULY 2008) by Taylor Byas | X-R-A-YIt’s past 2 am on the southside of Chicago when my aunt Danielle, my father’s older sister, brings me and her daughter Ginai along for a…Jul 18, 2020Jul 18, 2020
Taylor ByasForever 21 by Taylor ByasThe blouses on the clearance rack have gone ghost in the armpits, where the past two women’s Secret dries in streaks. Someone’s breasts…Jun 29, 2020Jun 29, 2020
Taylor ByasSpot the Differences * Empty MirrorWhen my mother met my father in 1992 in Chicago, she was 17 and my father was 20. My mother was a senior in high school, and my father out…May 29, 2020May 29, 2020