Sherell Barbee - In These Times

Sherell Barbee is the print editor at In These Times where she also curates the culture section. Her previous editorial work includes the Missouri Review, Pleiades magazine, Speilburg Literary Agency and 826 Boston. She was a 2021 residence fellow at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

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The Ways We Show Up After November 5

My sights are set on lifting up art that pushes for a world with disability justice and abolition and queer liberation, a future in which Palestine and Sudan and the Congo are free.

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June Jordan on Palestine and American Delusions

In these excerpts of "Life After Lebanon" and "Waking Up in the Middle of Some American Dreams," June Jordan insists on the ever-present need for coalition building across difference.

Sherell Barbee and June Jordan

Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship

In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.

Sherell Barbee and Toni Morrison

Reflections on the 10-year Anniversary of the Ferguson Protests

I don’t blame Michael Brown for having a smoking habit. Nor will I blame the boy for stealing a pack of smokes on August 9, 2014.

Sherell Barbee and Jacqui Germain

One Portrait Was Too Many. Now There Are 110.

Nayana LaFond’s Portraits in RED series centers the “silent crisis” facing Indigenous women

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Letters From Gaza

“I yearn for our voices to echo across the globe with the truth, reaching out to those who seek it.”

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.”

The Radical History of Black Cartoonists

Meet the comic artists inking on the margins.