Faith in Movement
Andy Warhol, the Rust Belt, and me.
Andy Warhol, the Rust Belt, and me.
In the Carnegie Museum's holiday presepio, a mingling of the sacred and profane.
On Howard Street, in downtown Akron, Black life and culture flourished.
Growing up in my rural Ohio town, the mall was our refuge. It could also be dangerous.
Portraits and reflections on the legacy of Black women artists and arts workers in Chicago.
Before my junior year of college, in 1972, I worked at the manufacturing plant where my father was a foreman. It was an education.
On the eroding shores of Lakes Michigan and Huron, a buried eighteenth-century lumber port, and the stakes of inaction.
"Each time I come back home / something else has burned."
Notes on living and moving as an out queer person in the Rust Belt.
Sixty years ago, my parents took us on a driving tour of Lake Michigan, the quintessential Midwest road trip.
"The jukebox at Pizza King didn’t bump any songs past / 1978 but we fed it quarters anyway"
Olcott, New York—"The French Riviera of Lake Ontario"—has sunk and rebounded in a way so minor, yet major enough to feel like a triumph.