Archive - groundwater

On the Jordan Valley

the breadbasket of Palestine

Feb 19 •

January 2024

Known Silence: A Conversation with Leasho Johnson

We have stepped over the threshold of what is called a new year, the start of the next cycle of calendar days. While I appreciate the year-end roundups…

Jan 3 •

November 2023

Good Mud: A Conversation with Vivien Sansour

on seeds and liberation

Nov 21, 2023 •

October 2023

lessons from the nursery

This spring, I started a plant nursery as part of my farm operation. Starting seeds, monitoring greenhouse temperatures, doing math to count the numbers…

Oct 4, 2023 •

August 2023

Last week, my friend and I watched a collection of documentary shorts from the Blackstar Film Festival. The collection we watched was called “Vulturine…

Aug 7, 2023 •

July 2023

on obsession, part 2

Obsession is my favorite literary form.

Jul 13, 2023 •

I’ve been out of time. Not out as in ran out, but out as in outside, and I don’t know if I want to come back.

Jul 2, 2023 •

May 2023

in praise of obsession

In the documentary The Pez Outlaw, a small-town Michigan man named Steve Glew makes millions of dollars reselling Pez candy dispensers. The documentary…

May 22, 2023 •

February 2023

ecstatic relations

in study of Black feminist eco-erotics

Feb 14, 2023 •

the territory of a question

What do you think of when you think about questions? The upward lilt of a voice? The feeling of inquiry, the urgency of needing to know? I’ve been…

Feb 6, 2023

December 2022

Everyone's Got Family

on some meanings of kin

Dec 8, 2022 •

November 2022

During a recent trip to Atlanta, I visited the Deana Lawson exhibit at the High Museum of Art. Lawson’s portraits reach across the Black diaspora…

Nov 2, 2022 •

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