by TNSF | Sep 11, 2019 | Photography, Vol. 2, Issue 22
Joy Taken in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, GA, this portrait uses a wide-open aperture to remove the one branch and the subject from the rest of the forest. To me, this photographic isolation represents an experience of growing up in the South as a person of color...
by TNSF | Sep 11, 2019 | Stories, Vol. 2, Issue 22
Our reward for finishing chores are in dinged up plastic cases from the library. The movies star talking dogs, rarely dinosaurs. They have funny white lesbians instead of Jim Carey or Eddie Murphy. We’ll watch the other movies at friends’ houses later....
by TNSF | Aug 14, 2019 | Nonfiction, Vol. 2, Issue 20
When I moved to Charlottesville a year after the deadly Unite the Right Rally, I was entirely uncertain about if, and how, my multicultural family could belong there. My husband (a Muslim Berliner), my child, and I (a Jewish New Yorker) were relocating from New Haven,...
by TNSF | Feb 13, 2019 | Nonfiction, Vol. 2, Issue 7
Without awareness, I exiled myself. Committed to being a foreigner, existing in near-constant visceral pain of missing Virginia’s Southside, until I can put my finger exactly on what I love and why and how. Until I can make sense of where I begin and my love for a...
by TNSF | Jan 16, 2019 | Nonfiction, Southern Lit Presents, Vol. 2, Issue 5
Finding a Home in Language Naomi Shihab Nye is no stranger to the dichotomy of oscillating from one place to another while still creating a space for herself wherever she lands. Born to a Palestinian refugee father and American mother, she spent much of her life in...
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