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Sherell Barbee is the print editor at In These Times where she also curates the culture section. With a background in literary editing, she previously worked for the Missouri Review, Pleiades Magazine, 826 Boston and Speilburg Literary Agency, and was a 2021 residence fellow at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. She is based in Chicago.
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Culture
One Portrait Was Too Many. Now There Are 110.
Nayana LaFond’s Portraits in RED series centers the “silent crisis” facing Indigenous women
Sherell Barbee
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Israel & PalestineCulture
Letters From Gaza
“I yearn for our voices to echo across the globe with the truth,
reaching out to those who seek it.”
Sherell Barbee
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Culture
Golden on Learning How to Live as a Black, Queer and Trans Artist from the South
“There’s so much politicizing of trans lives and at the heart of it, I just want to wear my dress.”
Sherell Barbee
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Culture
The Radical History of Black Cartoonists
Meet the comic artists inking on the margins.
Sherell Barbee