PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Nomination
Decolonial Passage is honored to nominate Maria Luisa Santos for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She is nominated for publishing her absolute first fiction publication with our magazine.
I Cry with the Sea
Every now and then I see her looking down at the waves/Their dance invoking memories/Warm days under African sun/when life was free.
The Aging Colossus
Cast your lantern in the darkened corners where injustice lives and where blindness-feigning Justice lies. Where children are stopped, searched, cuffed, assaulted, detained.
Best of the Net 2021 Nominations
Announcing the Decolonial Passage Best of the Net nominees for 2021.
Pretty
Pretty comes in all shades of black.
The Divine
Wheelchairs provide freedom — however individual and/or limited by inaccessibility — to many disabled people. And insofar as divine beings represent or create freedom for some people, it felt appropriate to me to portray a god in/as a wheelchair.
The Road
The pattern of sounds was the only way the children could determine when to cross. Standing on the far end of the road. Looking over the railings. Timing the moment in which they would need to dash.
Black Girl With A Book
You’re smitten, with her sage-like words and intellectual prose/Yet you pretend, to be unimpressed, and upend, her, turning up your nose/But you cannot offend her, you’re threatened by her, and…she…knows
Between the Bars
Malcolm X said:/America means prison/For me too, O/My brother/America means prison
Yellow Comedy: a Parallel Poem
People call me yellow jack/Some hailed me as a yellow dog/When I yelped on my yellow legs/To flee from the yellow flu
This is the Drum
This is the drum that recovered myriad times/made of Cordia africana, stretched/over space, time and land, repaired/in Amerindian antelope and/deer skin, to begin again, uniting/the Akan, Virginian, Taino, and Carib.
Some Decolonial Notes on Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Specifically, decolonial theory calls for the re-membering of dismembered peoples, this means an action to re-humanize dehumanized peoples of the world, because decolonial theory appreciates that all forms of oppression thrive precisely because grand-dehumanization is their operative agent.
What We Must Do to Survive
They call it the ultimate tropical paradise in those ads you see but ain’t nothing sweet about it when all you do is work and still after all that work, there is nothing to show.
The War Mindset
The collective tragedy Eritrea wears as a badge of honor touched my family, too.
Crossing Borders for an Elusive Betterment: Filipina and Chinese Women in Japan
Underlying marriage migration is this idea of the geographics of power, and the differentials in mobility and agency between sending and receiving communities.
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