Jori Lewis
@jorilewis.bsky.social
Author of Slaves for Peanuts. Editor @adi_magazine
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Surprise! Adi has a new website 💜🧡 we're so pleased to share our new site is up and running, with new colors, better search navigation, and a design that better showcases our amazing contributors and illustrators.
Go check out our latest pieces at adimagazine.com!
Go check out our latest pieces at adimagazine.com!
January 31, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Surprise! Adi has a new website 💜🧡 we're so pleased to share our new site is up and running, with new colors, better search navigation, and a design that better showcases our amazing contributors and illustrators.
Go check out our latest pieces at adimagazine.com!
Go check out our latest pieces at adimagazine.com!
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New essay alert! Check out @torsa.bsky.social's essay, "River Humanism," which meditates on bauls, wandering musicians from West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh, and their philosophy of movement.
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/riv...
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/riv...
River Humanism
Taking a walk near home, no one expects to find a dead man in a corn field. When my neighbor here in Northern California did, he called 911 first and then uploaded the corpse’s photo to our housing co...
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January 27, 2026 at 9:35 PM
New essay alert! Check out @torsa.bsky.social's essay, "River Humanism," which meditates on bauls, wandering musicians from West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh, and their philosophy of movement.
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/riv...
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/riv...
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The second installment of Adi's new "Again" column is live today! Myriam J. A. Chancy reflects on the book "Crossing the Mangrove" by Maryse Condé!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...
Again: Crossing the Mangrove
How do we return to the same texts for inspiration, for teaching? Such returns, at times, feel tedious. I will admit that even when not engaged in revisiting texts, I'm often bored, making rereads eve...
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January 22, 2026 at 9:08 PM
The second installment of Adi's new "Again" column is live today! Myriam J. A. Chancy reflects on the book "Crossing the Mangrove" by Maryse Condé!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...
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We're thrilled to share the essay "To Translate is to Resist" by Nedra Rodrigo, excerpted from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social, November 2025) with artwork by Kaya Joan!
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...
To Translate is to Resist
I could not enter the practice of translation feigning ignorance of the myriad ways in which translation has served as a tool of surveillance, categorization, and suppression. As much as translation h...
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January 20, 2026 at 11:25 PM
We're thrilled to share the essay "To Translate is to Resist" by Nedra Rodrigo, excerpted from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social, November 2025) with artwork by Kaya Joan!
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...
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Why support Assigned Media by donating at www.assignedmedia.org/support or becoming a member at www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter?
Let's talk about some of the original journalism our donors helped Assigned Media put out last year.
Let's talk about some of the original journalism our donors helped Assigned Media put out last year.
January 20, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Why support Assigned Media by donating at www.assignedmedia.org/support or becoming a member at www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter?
Let's talk about some of the original journalism our donors helped Assigned Media put out last year.
Let's talk about some of the original journalism our donors helped Assigned Media put out last year.
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Everybody's calling Assigned Media "the best little news site on the internet," but how will this scrappy team of journalists survive a new year of untold horrors?
With YOUR HELP, of course! That's right, get hype everyone for the 2026 start-of-year fundraising drive!
With YOUR HELP, of course! That's right, get hype everyone for the 2026 start-of-year fundraising drive!
January 19, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Everybody's calling Assigned Media "the best little news site on the internet," but how will this scrappy team of journalists survive a new year of untold horrors?
With YOUR HELP, of course! That's right, get hype everyone for the 2026 start-of-year fundraising drive!
With YOUR HELP, of course! That's right, get hype everyone for the 2026 start-of-year fundraising drive!
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There's no need to applaud (though we appreciate the raucous cheering) - just spread the word by sharing this post and becoming a member or making a donation!
Our ambitious goal is $20,000 by the end of January.
Here's where you get those awesome memberships: www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter
Our ambitious goal is $20,000 by the end of January.
Here's where you get those awesome memberships: www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter
Become a Member — Assigned
Support Assigned Media by becoming a member for $12 a month and get our weekly newsletter.
www.assignedmedia.org
January 19, 2026 at 11:31 AM
There's no need to applaud (though we appreciate the raucous cheering) - just spread the word by sharing this post and becoming a member or making a donation!
Our ambitious goal is $20,000 by the end of January.
Here's where you get those awesome memberships: www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter
Our ambitious goal is $20,000 by the end of January.
Here's where you get those awesome memberships: www.assignedmedia.org/newsletter
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"i have dreamt it before, this terrible reckoning, this gaping..."
Adi's first publication of the year is here! Asmaa Jama's poem "I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid" is live today, with art by Kaya Joan.
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/i-h...
Adi's first publication of the year is here! Asmaa Jama's poem "I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid" is live today, with art by Kaya Joan.
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/i-h...
I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid
i long for this ordinary apocalypse, my hands still as i kneadflour, wet with oil, as i watch the yeast rise asit wants for water,there are children outside playing in the asphalt, they arethrowing me...
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January 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM
"i have dreamt it before, this terrible reckoning, this gaping..."
Adi's first publication of the year is here! Asmaa Jama's poem "I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid" is live today, with art by Kaya Joan.
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/i-h...
Adi's first publication of the year is here! Asmaa Jama's poem "I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid" is live today, with art by Kaya Joan.
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/i-h...
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A little bit late to sharing this, but Adi is so proud to have nominated the following wonderful writers for a Pushcart Prize earlier this month.
Congrats to Rania Mamoun, Alaa Alqaisi, Sharon Aruparayil, Tarfa Benson, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and Malak Hijazi!
Congrats to Rania Mamoun, Alaa Alqaisi, Sharon Aruparayil, Tarfa Benson, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and Malak Hijazi!
December 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A little bit late to sharing this, but Adi is so proud to have nominated the following wonderful writers for a Pushcart Prize earlier this month.
Congrats to Rania Mamoun, Alaa Alqaisi, Sharon Aruparayil, Tarfa Benson, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and Malak Hijazi!
Congrats to Rania Mamoun, Alaa Alqaisi, Sharon Aruparayil, Tarfa Benson, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and Malak Hijazi!
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"There are names they never let bloom: not in maps, not in marrow— / cartographies erased by teeth, tongues chewed into hollow."
There's a new poem, "Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics" by Avril Shakira Villar on the Adi site! Art by Larissa Ribeiro.
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/gha...
There's a new poem, "Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics" by Avril Shakira Villar on the Adi site! Art by Larissa Ribeiro.
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/gha...
Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics
There are names they never let bloom: not in maps, not in marrow—cartographies erased by teeth, tongues chewed into hollow.My grandfather spat fire in a dialect they jailed. He taught meto write freed...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"There are names they never let bloom: not in maps, not in marrow— / cartographies erased by teeth, tongues chewed into hollow."
There's a new poem, "Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics" by Avril Shakira Villar on the Adi site! Art by Larissa Ribeiro.
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/gha...
There's a new poem, "Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics" by Avril Shakira Villar on the Adi site! Art by Larissa Ribeiro.
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/gha...
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NEW COLUMN ALERT!
The Again column provides a space reflect on a text the author returns to again and again, and we're thrilled that Adi's publisher Nimmi Gowrinathan kicked us off with Frantz Fanon in "Again: The Wretched of the Earth."
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...
The Again column provides a space reflect on a text the author returns to again and again, and we're thrilled that Adi's publisher Nimmi Gowrinathan kicked us off with Frantz Fanon in "Again: The Wretched of the Earth."
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...
Again: The Wretched of the Earth
This essay marks the beginning of a new column for Adi Magazine called
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December 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
NEW COLUMN ALERT!
The Again column provides a space reflect on a text the author returns to again and again, and we're thrilled that Adi's publisher Nimmi Gowrinathan kicked us off with Frantz Fanon in "Again: The Wretched of the Earth."
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...
The Again column provides a space reflect on a text the author returns to again and again, and we're thrilled that Adi's publisher Nimmi Gowrinathan kicked us off with Frantz Fanon in "Again: The Wretched of the Earth."
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...
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"When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she remembered when mother had run away from home."
New fiction, "The River of Birds" by Quya Reyna, translated by Andree Michelle Viladegut Peñaranda is live today on Adi's website!
Read: adimagazine.com/articles/the...
New fiction, "The River of Birds" by Quya Reyna, translated by Andree Michelle Viladegut Peñaranda is live today on Adi's website!
Read: adimagazine.com/articles/the...
The River of Birds
He who leaves, takes his memory,
his way of being river, of being air,
of being goodbye and never.
Love, Rosario Castellanos
When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she reme...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she remembered when mother had run away from home."
New fiction, "The River of Birds" by Quya Reyna, translated by Andree Michelle Viladegut Peñaranda is live today on Adi's website!
Read: adimagazine.com/articles/the...
New fiction, "The River of Birds" by Quya Reyna, translated by Andree Michelle Viladegut Peñaranda is live today on Adi's website!
Read: adimagazine.com/articles/the...
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"As some of the oldest creatures on land, it makes sense that spiders are often part of our origin stories."
A new essay, "Islands in the Sky" by Ashia S. Ajani, is live today on the Adi website!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/isl...
A new essay, "Islands in the Sky" by Ashia S. Ajani, is live today on the Adi website!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/isl...
Islands in the Sky
Everywhere I go, spiders seem to find me. If not spiders then their webs, clingy strings meant to capture prey or capture your attention. Something about spiders’ craftiness, their art of living, the ...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"As some of the oldest creatures on land, it makes sense that spiders are often part of our origin stories."
A new essay, "Islands in the Sky" by Ashia S. Ajani, is live today on the Adi website!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/isl...
A new essay, "Islands in the Sky" by Ashia S. Ajani, is live today on the Adi website!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/isl...
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"There is an age-old question about who came first: the River or the People? The answer you get depends on who you ask."
Innocent Chizaram Ilo's short story "Bridge Gringo" is live on the Adi site today, with stunning art by our new illustrator, Jinhwa Jang!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/bri...
Innocent Chizaram Ilo's short story "Bridge Gringo" is live on the Adi site today, with stunning art by our new illustrator, Jinhwa Jang!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/bri...
Bridge Gringo
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November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"There is an age-old question about who came first: the River or the People? The answer you get depends on who you ask."
Innocent Chizaram Ilo's short story "Bridge Gringo" is live on the Adi site today, with stunning art by our new illustrator, Jinhwa Jang!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/bri...
Innocent Chizaram Ilo's short story "Bridge Gringo" is live on the Adi site today, with stunning art by our new illustrator, Jinhwa Jang!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/bri...
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"What a wonder, what a word, almost wander,
as in through a luminous forest of dreams, almost window,
a sly peephole into forever..."
Natalie Wee's poem "Queer Ecology" is up on the Adi site this week, with art by Herikita!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/que...
as in through a luminous forest of dreams, almost window,
a sly peephole into forever..."
Natalie Wee's poem "Queer Ecology" is up on the Adi site this week, with art by Herikita!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/que...
Queer Ecology
While admiring the bounty of tomatoes in Q and M’s garden,we’re visited by crows. There are two, which makes it a murder.Q says that’s sick, sick itself a word inverted like a dogbelly-up in the grass...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"What a wonder, what a word, almost wander,
as in through a luminous forest of dreams, almost window,
a sly peephole into forever..."
Natalie Wee's poem "Queer Ecology" is up on the Adi site this week, with art by Herikita!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/que...
as in through a luminous forest of dreams, almost window,
a sly peephole into forever..."
Natalie Wee's poem "Queer Ecology" is up on the Adi site this week, with art by Herikita!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/que...
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"Language is where I grew less
small light streaming through the gaps
between my fingers..."
New poetry up today on the Adi website! We're thrilled to share Ezza Ahmed's "Ten Days in the Tall Trees," with art by Larissa Ribeiro!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/ten...
small light streaming through the gaps
between my fingers..."
New poetry up today on the Adi website! We're thrilled to share Ezza Ahmed's "Ten Days in the Tall Trees," with art by Larissa Ribeiro!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/ten...
Ten Days in the Tall Trees
Water called out to meeach mouth a lush bluegarden, window, a warning:The rooftop is the worst.Sight is nothing but an opportunityto become the mountain’sbruised heads disru...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"Language is where I grew less
small light streaming through the gaps
between my fingers..."
New poetry up today on the Adi website! We're thrilled to share Ezza Ahmed's "Ten Days in the Tall Trees," with art by Larissa Ribeiro!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/ten...
small light streaming through the gaps
between my fingers..."
New poetry up today on the Adi website! We're thrilled to share Ezza Ahmed's "Ten Days in the Tall Trees," with art by Larissa Ribeiro!
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/ten...
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"Telling someone from Brazil that I grew up in the MST almost always involves baggage on their side and mine."
Read Carolina Simionato's essay on joys and struggles of movement-building, out today from Adi!
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Read Carolina Simionato's essay on joys and struggles of movement-building, out today from Adi!
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The Sweetness of the Imperfect Struggle
In early 2023, I decided to move back to southern Brazil from Germany, where I had lived for five years. I then came back to my parents’ small farm in Paraná, in our town’s Landless Workers’ Movement ...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"Telling someone from Brazil that I grew up in the MST almost always involves baggage on their side and mine."
Read Carolina Simionato's essay on joys and struggles of movement-building, out today from Adi!
adimagazine.com/articles/the...
Read Carolina Simionato's essay on joys and struggles of movement-building, out today from Adi!
adimagazine.com/articles/the...
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"we were here when the Nakba took place that spring. /
we hid the gold at the bottom of the well near the spring—we knew we’d return.
we safeguard your stories when you are silenced."
"saber" by Aicha bint Yusif is live today on the Adi website.
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/sab...
we hid the gold at the bottom of the well near the spring—we knew we’d return.
we safeguard your stories when you are silenced."
"saber" by Aicha bint Yusif is live today on the Adi website.
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/sab...
صبر saber
If another person asks me about what do I think is the solution to the “conflict”I’ll tell them about the cacti who knows the hands picking its prickly fruitthe cacti ...
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October 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"we were here when the Nakba took place that spring. /
we hid the gold at the bottom of the well near the spring—we knew we’d return.
we safeguard your stories when you are silenced."
"saber" by Aicha bint Yusif is live today on the Adi website.
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/sab...
we hid the gold at the bottom of the well near the spring—we knew we’d return.
we safeguard your stories when you are silenced."
"saber" by Aicha bint Yusif is live today on the Adi website.
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/sab...
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Congratulations to Adi's nominees for the Best of the Net anthology @sundresspub.bsky.social! We're so proud of our contributors and love a chance to shout out their incredible work. Best of luck to each of these wonderful writers and artists! ♥
September 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Congratulations to Adi's nominees for the Best of the Net anthology @sundresspub.bsky.social! We're so proud of our contributors and love a chance to shout out their incredible work. Best of luck to each of these wonderful writers and artists! ♥
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My mini poem, titled, "Where do you go when the Genocide is too Loud" is out today on @adimagazine.bsky.social 🎉
Incredibly honoured that the editors chose to give this piece a home.
And, as always, #FreePalestine 🇸🇩
Incredibly honoured that the editors chose to give this piece a home.
And, as always, #FreePalestine 🇸🇩
October 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My mini poem, titled, "Where do you go when the Genocide is too Loud" is out today on @adimagazine.bsky.social 🎉
Incredibly honoured that the editors chose to give this piece a home.
And, as always, #FreePalestine 🇸🇩
Incredibly honoured that the editors chose to give this piece a home.
And, as always, #FreePalestine 🇸🇩
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"write my name—
Malak.
not: “female, age unknown.”
not: “Gazan civilian in a blue plastic bag."
write it today,
tomorrow,
again—
until metaphor
is no longer a metaphor."
Malak Hijazi writes from Gaza in this new poem from Adi, "A Lullaby for Gaza."
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/a-l...
Malak.
not: “female, age unknown.”
not: “Gazan civilian in a blue plastic bag."
write it today,
tomorrow,
again—
until metaphor
is no longer a metaphor."
Malak Hijazi writes from Gaza in this new poem from Adi, "A Lullaby for Gaza."
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/a-l...
A Lullaby for Gaza
report: 70% of Gaza land designated as security zone
an engine haunts my body—
one hand iron,
one leg machine.
it drags itself
through the alleys of my ribs.
do you smell flesh?
taste bloo...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"write my name—
Malak.
not: “female, age unknown.”
not: “Gazan civilian in a blue plastic bag."
write it today,
tomorrow,
again—
until metaphor
is no longer a metaphor."
Malak Hijazi writes from Gaza in this new poem from Adi, "A Lullaby for Gaza."
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/a-l...
Malak.
not: “female, age unknown.”
not: “Gazan civilian in a blue plastic bag."
write it today,
tomorrow,
again—
until metaphor
is no longer a metaphor."
Malak Hijazi writes from Gaza in this new poem from Adi, "A Lullaby for Gaza."
READ: adimagazine.com/articles/a-l...
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"Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandescence. I like that word: its sound lingers like embers floating up to the night sky."
Gabriela Jauregui's haunting short story "Citlalli" is out today from Adi!
Read the full piece here: adimagazine.com/articles/cit...
Gabriela Jauregui's haunting short story "Citlalli" is out today from Adi!
Read the full piece here: adimagazine.com/articles/cit...
Citlalli
A star reflects light. It is a distant light. It is a center, surrounded. It is what surrounds the center. A celestial body. It hides. Twinkles. Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandesce...
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July 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandescence. I like that word: its sound lingers like embers floating up to the night sky."
Gabriela Jauregui's haunting short story "Citlalli" is out today from Adi!
Read the full piece here: adimagazine.com/articles/cit...
Gabriela Jauregui's haunting short story "Citlalli" is out today from Adi!
Read the full piece here: adimagazine.com/articles/cit...
“Buried Sunshine” my essay on Illinois coal mining and Black and Indigenous histories of violence is now out!
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Buried Sunshine | Jori Lewis
When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, we lived in a house in the country—on a rural road on the outskirts of Springfield, Illinois, where the water was
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July 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“Buried Sunshine” my essay on Illinois coal mining and Black and Indigenous histories of violence is now out!
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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"i
betrays you
you comedy
fool you
greying
ghost—"
There's a new poem by Dior J. Stephens out today at Adi!
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/222...
betrays you
you comedy
fool you
greying
ghost—"
There's a new poem by Dior J. Stephens out today at Adi!
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/222...
222 or asyndetic
ibetrays youyou comedyfool yougreyingghost—ihides fromi’s facein mirrorsmadeshuttershut—idisassemblesi’sself insubzerooverthinkeach nighteach bit—i’s ichopped upfor parts—ilibe-rates y-ousi-debysi-de ...
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July 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"i
betrays you
you comedy
fool you
greying
ghost—"
There's a new poem by Dior J. Stephens out today at Adi!
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/222...
betrays you
you comedy
fool you
greying
ghost—"
There's a new poem by Dior J. Stephens out today at Adi!
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/222...
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Adi's first graphic essay "Tiny T" by the wonderful Nasrin Sheykhi is out today on the website! Check out this essay on Nasrin's fraught immigration to the US and her subsequent "Tiny Trump" portrait.
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/tin...
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/tin...
Tiny T
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July 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Adi's first graphic essay "Tiny T" by the wonderful Nasrin Sheykhi is out today on the website! Check out this essay on Nasrin's fraught immigration to the US and her subsequent "Tiny Trump" portrait.
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/tin...
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/tin...