Elinam Agbo

Sep 1, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Krys Malcolm Belc |Gabrielle Calvocoressi |Melissa Faliveno |Elinam Agbo

Krys Malcolm Belc is the author of the memoir The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood (Counterpoint Press, 2021) and the flash nonfiction chapbook In Transit (The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2018). His essays about queer and trans family life have been featured in Granta, Guernica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Belc is the memoir editor of Split Lip Magazine. He is the 2023–25 Edelstein-Keller Writer in Residence at the University of Minnesota.

Aug 31, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Alexis Gumbs |Gabrielle Calvocoressi |Melissa Faliveno |Elinam Agbo

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is cherished by a wide range of communities as an oracle and a vessel of love. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of experience as a writer and facilitator, her inclusive practice finds us and brings us into the ceremonies we have always needed.

Jul 20, 2023 | sojo.net | Elinam Agbo

ON A BRIGHTLY lit stage in Berlin, a performing artist drapes her dead son’s pajamas over her lap and begins to cry. She cries “loud and unabashed” until her ponytail starts to unravel, and her face becomes swollen and red. Soon, the audience begins to cry too. The artist is Magos, mother to Santiago, the boy who dies in the opening pages of Gerardo Sámano Córdova’s novel Monstrilio. When Santiago dies, his parents — Magos and Joseph — begin to drown in their grief.

Jul 10, 2023 | sojo.net | Elinam Agbo

ON A BRIGHTLY lit stage in Berlin, a performing artist drapes her dead son’s pajamas over her lap and begins to cry. She cries “loud and unabashed” until her ponytail starts to unravel, and her face becomes swollen and red. Soon, the audience begins to cry too. The artist is Magos, mother to Santiago, the boy who dies in the opening pages of Gerardo Sámano Córdova’s novel Monstrilio. When Santiago dies, his parents — Magos and Joseph — begin to drown in their grief.