Faith Ringgold's Black Light will continue to shine: “In 1967 I had begun to explore the idea of a new palette. . I was now committed to “black light” and subtle color nuances and compositions based on my interest in African rhythm, pattern, and repetition.”

The genocide in Rwanda began 30 years ago yesterday. I'll spend this week talking about it w/my intro African history class. Part of the lesson is that the international community stood by & did nothing to stop it. That won't happen again, said the West. Yet here we are, again.

Join us in congratulating not one but TWO TRANSITION authors for winning the 2024 PEN/Dau Prize with their debut short stories in T134.

Congratulations Winelle Felix, author of 'Return to Sender: Big Time Tief,' and Zkara Gaillard, author of 'A Good Word'!!

I'm grateful to everyone who has either shared, donated or mentioned it to someone else. I deeply appreciate it. I'm currently on $633 out of the $5100 goal.
I'd appreciate your donations and sharing. Thank you. 🤲
I'm grateful to the community for the help so far.

Such an honor to have hosted the great Maryse Condé here at the Hutchins a year ago. We were fortunate to have occasion to celebrate her life’s work. Her legacy remains memorialized in the corpus of African diasporic literature that grows and expands thanks to her brilliance.

If you want to explore feminist perspectives on Sudan, check out this Sudanese feminist reading list. Including fiction, non-fiction & journalism and more. Thanks for compiling and also for including Ghost Season!

TRANSITION is open for submissions! T137 will take the theme of SOLIDARITIES!

All queries are welcome. Deadline for submission is July, 1 2024.

More info and full call for submissions: transition.submittable.com/submit/286067/…

Yvonne Osei's 'Here to Stay' series, including 'Here to Stay: Serena in Yoked (Blue).”

More of the series in T134: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/…

Yvonne Osei

Gaze into the unraveling world behind the screen in Miranda Valerie's 'They'll Probably Be Okay' in T134.

Full story here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/…

Congratulations to Ariana Benson ariana benson, whose moving poems appear in Transition 133 CLIMATE, published this year

From 'Negotiations with the Snow' by Okwudili Nebeolisa featured in T134: Home Soon alongside his other poem, 'Rationale.'

Full poems: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/…

Feels like it’s been forever since I’ve had a new poem drop. Here’s a new duplex in New Ohio Review that explores how our relationships with our parents continue to shape later relationships.

View John Ahearn's work with 'Double Dutch' and more in T134: Home Soon.

More online: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/…

Step inside the delicate social order in the Asumini dorm with Nina and her classmates in Lutivini Majanja's 'Pee Goes Quick” in T134.

Full story here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/…

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Wander through memory in Ama Codjoe's 'Looping the Loop: Assemblage, Repetition, and Diaspora: Three Museums—Paris, France' in T134: Home Soon.

Full text available on our website: transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/home/current-i…

Baseera Khan's 'Mother' (2019, two way mirror film, acrylic, archival inkjet prints) in T134.

See the full set of images here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/…

Debut author Issa Quincy's 'Damask Rose, or The Evening Lamp's Light' traces a family's history in T134: Home Soon.

Read the full short story here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/…