Asian Vampire Sensuality and Other Problems April 5, 2011: Barbara Jane Reyes: "My question is about women of color publishing now. Why so dispersed? Why so defanged? Why so reticent, so deferential to others’ authority?" Quick answer: The body. To write the diasporic body — the race-class body — female body... is... so horrible, I can't even tell you. This sentence functions as evidence. [...] by Bhanu Kapil

“If you give me a dollar I’ll take my top off / and let you see my heart” November 24, 2010: Laurel Nakadate's film Untitled simultaneously makes poetry sexy and succeeds in making sexiness entirely beside the point, reducing the body to simply a matter-of-fact vehicle for commenting on itself. Nakadate invited porn actresses to "audition" with the poems of Dora Malech, which HTMLGIANT's Jackie Wang sees as the perfect source material for [...] by Harriet Staff