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Black Is Over (Or, Special Black) by Tressie McMillan Cottom with Artwork by Merav Kamel
Above: from the Sketchbook of Merav Kamel
I’m looking for a mixed girl Asian, Jamaican
I’m looking for a mixed girl Puerto Rican, Haitian
I’m looking for a mixed girl
Cuban and White
I’m trying to get mixed up tonight like
Excuse me miss, what’s your name, where ya
from, can I come—T-Pain, “Mix’d Girl”
“Black people are over.” That is how it was said to me once.
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Protest for Change
Above: “Chessmen” by Max Nicholas Niemeier
Dear LIT Readers,
As all of you are aware, protests have been taking place here in New York City and across the globe. The pain our nation is experiencing now is one we have experienced many times before. It has become clear, once again, that the time to act is now.
We are all part of a community that actively celebrates diversity and the pursuit of justice, which is why LIT Magazine has decided to postpone our pitching salon in solidarity with the protesters and activists who are marching on Washington and in cities nationwide.
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Address to The New School Graduating 2020 Class from Lara Love Hardin
Lara Love Hardin will be giving this speech on LIVE with LIT as a part of LIT’s Commencement 2020 this Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm. Join here.
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I have trouble walking through doorways. I never get it right, I’m close, but always seem to catch a shoulder, a forearm, a hip on the frame. I forget that I am someone who never quite gets it right, until I find the mysterious bruises on my body and remember. As a child I used to walk down a city block and then abruptly make a right turn and walk into the wall of a building.
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Address to The New School Graduating 2020 Class from Rachel B. Neumann (TNS ’01)
Rachel B. Neumann will read and discuss her speech on LIVE with LIT as a part of LIT’s Commencement 2020 this Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm. Join here.
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Dear Writers,
If, when I call you “writers” you don’t wince or duck your head or look behind you to see who I am talking to, then congratulations, you are cooked enough and ready to go out in the world. Only one other thing is required of you now and — unlike in some vocations, where it takes some work to figure out what to do —as a writer,
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Commencement 2020 with LIT Magazine
Welcome to LIT’s first ever virtual commencement and graduation party!
Click here on May 19th at 7PM to join.We have every reason to be thankful this graduation season. Lives have been changed, friendships made, goals achieved, and opportunities re-envisioned. Commencement speeches by Lara Love Hardin and Rachel B. Neumann will inspire you to reshape your story and to find strength in the struggles ahead, and Kristen Roupenian will offer her take on how to pursue life and success after the MFA, and how to navigate the digital world.
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Kristen Roupenian on Writing and Getting Your MFA, Interviewed by LaVonne Roberts
Kristen Roupenian will be interviewed on LIVE with LIT as a part of LIT’s Commencement 2020 this Tuesday, May 19th at 7pm. Join here.
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“Cat Person” was published by The New Yorker on Monday, December 4th, 2017, and by that Friday, it was the most-read piece of fiction of all time on the magazine’s website. It earned its author – who was then completing a writing fellowship in Ann Arbor, Michigan – global fame, quickly followed by a seven-figure, two-book deal.
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I read 4.5 million views.
