July
2022
“What are the histories that are carried in our blood—cultural traditions that continue to give Black bodies life?”
Introducing filmmaker:
Aliyah Blackmore
Aliyah has been working with visual mediums for the past ten years, with an emphasis on documentary photography & filmmaking that explores Black Diasporic narratives.
A Spell for Excision
After Akwaeke Emezi
“When you pray for courage, pray for blood. They will fight back and you must be ready.”
Camille Bacon
“The bottles clink.
A wave
is a wordless greeting.
All of them have the same
long necks.
The same
smooth curves clothed in worn labels.”
Six
Women, & Non-Binary Artists of Color.
Poets, Artists, Musicians, & Writers.
Welcome to the Hennepin Review.
Artist Shehzil Malik has a passion for social change & storytelling with heart.
See her original work, an ode to SULTANA’S DREAM here.
Tehnuka
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FICTION by
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“They are taking things away, things we cannot see, & deep down, the real problem for Lisa is not merely that she dislikes finding dead ants in her teacup every morning but that the things they are taking away are things she does not know how to give up. ”
“Hello, Jacob”, she says, dipping her fingers into the soil. She hopes it's his cheeks she is touching. The soil is cold and soft. The loam cleaves onto her fingers as if to recall the memories it has of them.”
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Deborah Ajilore
FICTION
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Camille Bacon
FICTION
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Aliyah Blackmore
FILM
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Tehnuka
FICTION
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Shehzil Malik
ART
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Jenny Wong
POETRY
