"If the body remembers everything, she happened." From the Editor, Giveaway, & the Launch of Marie Conlan's Say Mother Say Hand

What a space we made for ourselves last night—& when I say space I hope you hear salvation. You’re the best love we know, dear songbirds.

From the Editor, Announcements, Gatherings, Literature, MusicTopaz WintersApril 19, 2020Marie Conlan, Shawnie Hamer, Topaz Winters, Sammie Downing, Gabrielle Joy Lessans

"The book stretches into the realms of dream & surreality, hinging on histories I don’t have full access to." (An Interview With Marie Conlan)

I think we as humans experience a collective aching to know ourselves, and psychics & therapists each illuminate different access points.

Music, Literature, InterviewsKate WilsonApril 13, 2020Akilah Oliver, Marie Conlan, Ocean Voung, Danielle Vogel, The Library Tapes, Chelsea Wolfe, Colleen, Atmosphere, Jay-Z, Common

Launch of Marie Conlan's Say Mother Say Hand on IG Live: See You There?

Please join us at Half Mystic’s latest gathering this coming Saturday, April 18, 2020, at 9 P.M. EST.

Gatherings, Literature, Music, AnnouncementsTopaz WintersApril 11, 2020Marie Conlan, Sammie Downing, Gabrielle Joy Lessans, Shawnie Hamer

Dear Renata (Marie Conlan on Say Mother Say Hand)

& now, spinning in the center of pandemic, what is celebration in an era of loss? Of isolation? She said resilience. I heard re-silence.

Personal Essay, Music, LiteratureGuestApril 8, 2020Marie Conlan

How to Survive Social Distancing (A Selection)

Now, I don’t know how to write about the spring without writing about the sickness. It’s a tricky and selfish thing.

Wuthering Heights in Words and Song: Female Hysteria, Melodrama, and Racial Complexity

The women of Wuthering Heights take up substantial space in their caustic, expansive splendor.

Literature, Music, Personal EssayAmrita ChakrabortyMarch 24, 2020Kate Bush, Hayley Westenra, Emily Brontë, Constantin Héger

Everything Is Known and Loved Because It Is Known: Familial Song in Little Women

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?

Literature, Music, FilmHana WidermanMarch 16, 2020Greta Gerwig

Spotlighting Trans, Nonbinary and Gender Non-Conforming Artists: A Selection

“Can’t forget that I’m a miracle, it’s true”, he sings, “don’t you forget you’re a miracle too”—and it’s damn near impossible not to believe him.

Politics, Music, SelectionsAmrita ChakrabortyFebruary 25, 2020Dorian Electra, Angel Haze, Shea Diamond, SOPHIE, Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers, Against Me!, Ah Mer Ah Su, Linn da Quebrada, Shawnee, Tunde Olaniran, Rae Spoon

Introducing Say Mother Say Hand

It is a personification of the word despite: survival despite, forgiveness despite, love despite. This book speaks & we can’t help but pay attention.

Literature, Music, AnnouncementsTopaz WintersFebruary 18, 2020Marie Conlan, David Welch, Sara Veglahn, Karolina Zapal

Strong Medicine: A Selection of the Radical Roots of Country Music

I may come from country people, but I’m not country, I used to tell myself.

Music, Politics, SelectionsLexi CovalsenFebruary 11, 2020Luke Bryan, The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Ken Burn, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn