Navid Sinaki is a writer and artist from Tehran who currently lives in Los Angeles. His video art has been exhibited in venues including the British Film Institute, Lincoln Center, and the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.
On writing music to the poems of Nick Flynn, Marie Howe, Natalie Diaz, and others.
The poet’s new collection of essays, Minor Feelings, threads intense friendships, “bad” English, and standup comedy into a meditation on the Asian-American experience.
The writers on indigenous ancestry, playing with language, and maintaining public personas.
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Featuring interviews with Young Joon Kwak, Kazuo Hara, Bill Jenkins, Ligia Lewis, William Basinski, Titus Kaphar, José Roberto Cea, and Barry Lopez.
Testosterone is the hormone that is the basis of patriarchy. So if you wanna get really deep, it’s like, Do I want to participate in that? I am totally a feminist and, as much as men might not feel empowered, they are in a more powerful position than someone with a vagina, or someone who is feminine or a woman. So what does that mean for me?
Becca Blackwell
