Tag: Tiana Reid

  • Autobiography and archival research collide in Hazel Carby’s memoir

  • ARC Introduces Tiana Reid as Junior Arts Writer ARC: Art. Recognition. Culture. 2014-02-03 Tiana Reid I laboured for quite some time over what to write as my introduction to joining ARC Magazine’s team as Junior Arts Writer. How to approach the unstarted? I was thinking first of preparing a brief manifesto-like document. That was one…

  • crossings: undone presents, pyrrhic futures The State Dubai, U.A.E. Voicing 2013-03-30 Tiana Reid Columbia University “Cyaan live split. Not in this world.” The first time I read Michelle Cliff’s 1987 book No Telephone to Heaven, I immediately forgot which character had said this line. Was it Harry/Harriet, the queer Jamaican character? Or was it Clare…

  • imagining hybrid cities The State 2013-07-25 Tiana Reid I started this series on crossing and mixing by considering temporality and its hold on how we imagine hybridity. The recent discourse centered on the unshakable ‘browning’ or ‘beiging’ of mostly urban populations in the decades to come offers itself up through the prevailing ‘hybrid futures’ narrative.…

  • love, desire, and impossible measures The State 2013-06-08 Tiana Reid Columbia University Children rule. No, certain children rule the ways in which we measure fantasies of progress. I read Meagan Hatcher-Mays’ Jezebel piece, “I’m Biracial, and That Ad Is a Big Fucking Deal. Trust Me.,” before I saw the Cheerios commercial itself. The commercial, like…

  • slippery positions The State 2013-05-17 Tiana Reid Columbia University As a self-defined Black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet, Audre Lorde is the model representative for intersectionality. As such, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches has become a ubiquitous text in undergraduate courses, for the theory and practice of intersectionality; a way to look at what women’s studies…

  • I won’t get into how I learned how not to identify as “mixed,” how I began to understand that “mixed-race” in my generation was predicated on racial essentialism, false notions of purity, historical inaccuracies and worst of all, a sense of superiority over those who were only Black. Soon, I understood “mixed” as an intermediary…