The Brooklyn Rail

MOTHERSTRUCK! STACEYANN CHIN with Jamie Maleszka

Throughout her award-wining career as a spoken-word poet, activist, and performer, Chin has long drawn from her personal experiences. Hers is a practice rooted in the mining of her own life—and the out loud sharing of the words and stories sculpted from it.

In Conversation

WE CAN BE SILENT NO MORE: YAËL FARBER with Jamie Maleszka

On the evening of December 16, 2012, Jyoti Singh Pandey, a 23-year-old medical student, was gang-raped and savagely assaulted aboard a moving bus in New Delhi. Days later, she died from her injuries. The young woman came to be known as Nirbhaya, meaning “fearless” in Hindi.