To celebrate our Summertime issue for Black voices, we asked our contributors what they hope to do this summer. How do your plans compare?
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To celebrate our Summertime issue for Black voices, we asked our contributors to tell us about their favorite picnic foods. Grab a basket and spread out your blanket!
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Our ☀️SUMMERTIME☀️ issue for Black voices is finally here! In celebration, we asked our contributors to share some of their favorite summer jams, and we compiled them into a playlist to keep you dancing all season.
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The simple truth is that summer is just different for Black folx.
Obviously, there are activities that translate over cultural lines: swimming, barbecues (I call them cookouts), time off school, beach, all the things that we as a collective society longed for last year—the year of loss, in so many ways.
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May was another productive month for the #SplitLipFAM! Check out all these accomplishments from our contributors and staff.
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Rebecca Orchard’s May issue flash “The Astronaut is Rescued After Three Days Floating Alone in Space” is an epiphany. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.
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We’re pleased to share that Venita Blackburn’s SLM story “Smoothies” made the 2021 Wigleaf Top 50 list! Additionally, two SLM stories made the longlist: Matt Greene’s “At LACMA” and Cree N. Pettaway’s “Yellow Mama, Take Me Home.” Congratulations!
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Ashley Lopez’s May issue story “The Body Farm” is an existential crisis in 30 paragraphs. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.
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Sarah Lao’s May issue poem “Ponyo (2008) Dreams in Tectonic Scales” is as vivid as its Studio Ghibli namesake. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.
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Want to get lost in the woods or learn some five-dollar words? Our May edition of Now Playing has all that and more. Check out these recommendations from our contributors!
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Leah Francesca Christianson’s April issue story “Hard & Smooth & Seemingly Unattached” is about daring to hope in the face of uncertainty. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.
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We keep track of all our staff and contributor accomplishments in a gigantic Google doc, and April 2021 took up SEVEN PAGES. Please enjoy this supersized monthly roundup!
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Samina Najmi’s April issue memoir “The Straight Lines of a Circle” uses geometry to trace her family’s intergenerational journeys around the world, as well as their intersecting life journeys. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.
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