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Spotlight

Spotlight Artist – Amira Farooq

By TMS Staff

Interviewed by Moeed Tariq, The Missing Slate’s Creative Director.

Poetry

The Trapping

By TMS Staff

by Ben Parker Just once, in shame, he refuses; his turning snags her words on air. Rock-blue, her pupils bloom. From his dust…

Roving Eye, Spotlight

Spotlight Artist – Sonja Dimovska

By TMS Staff

Â Have you always known you wanted to be a graphic artist? Graphic art is a medium I most frequently use to express myself. I…

The Critics

Book Review: In Defence of Adultery

By Jacob Silkstone

Reviewed by Jacob Silkstone Julia Copus, In Defence of Adultery (Bloodaxe, 2003) ISBN: 1-85224-607-3 The American poet Jennifer Grotz once said that â€˜Poetry is…

Poetry

Bipolar

By TMS Staff

I. A dove into a mirror; A crow into a tree. II. There is a word missing. â€”A.R. Chase Archer Rose Chase…

Fiction, Literature

Missionary Position

By TMS Staff

By John Wesick â€œYou want something, Mr. Terry?â€ The braless Indian girl moved closer to the table, and the corner lifted the hemline…

Poetry

Bread

By TMS Staff

doctors pure as angels, white as chefs peruse menus on clipboards, their exhaustion mouthed in metric from a graveyard shift cuisine measuring…

Roving Eye, Spotlight

Spotlight Poet – Karen Alkalay-Gut

By TMS Staff

Â Behind the Words: An Interview with Karen Alkalay-Gut by Omri J. Luzon Karen Alkalay-Gut is a professor at Tel-Aviv University, the Chair of the…

Talk the Walk

By TMS Staff

Time to drop the â€˜Sâ€™ word By Maria Amir â€œBecause women’s work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious…

Articles, Essays

A Naked Industry

By TMS Staff

By Aaron Grierson

In the Magazine

A Word from the Editor

Don’t cry like a girl. Be a (wo)man.

Why holding up the women in our lives can help build a nation, in place of tearing it down.

Literature

This House is an African House

"This house is an African house./ This your body is an African womanâ€™s body..." By Kadija Sesay.

Literature

Shoots

"Sapling legs bend smoothly, power foot in place,/ her back, parallel to solid ground,/ makes her torso a table of support..." By Kadija Sesay.

Literature

A Dry Season Doctor in West Africa

"She presses her toes together. I will never marry, she says. Jamais dans cette vie! Where can I find a man like you?" By...

In the Issue

Property of a Sorceress

"She died under mango trees, under kola nut/ and avocado trees, her nose pressed to their roots,/ her hands buried in dead leaves, her...

Literature

What Took Us to War

"What took us to war has again begun,/ and what took us to war/ has opened its wide mouth/ again to confuse us." By...

Literature

Sometimes, I Close My Eyes

"sometimes, this is the way of the world,/ the simple, ordinary world, where things are/ sometimes too ordinary to matter. Sometimes,/ I close my...

Literature

Quarter to War

"The footfalls fading from the streets/ The trees departing from the avenues/ The sweat evaporating from the skin..." By Jumoke Verissimo.

Literature

Transgendered

"Lagos is a chronicle of liquid geographies/ Swimming on every tongue..." By Jumoke Verissimo.

Fiction

Sketches of my Mother

"The mother of my memories was elegant. She would not step out of the house without her trademark red lipstick and perfect hair. She...

Fiction

The Way of Meat

"Every dayâ€”any dayâ€”any one of us could be picked out for any reason, and we would be... Weâ€™d part like hair, pushing into the...

Fiction

Between Two Worlds

"Ursula spotted the three black students immediately. Everyone did. They could not be missed because they kept to themselves and apart from the rest...."...

Essays

Talking Gender

"In fact it is often through the uninformed use of such words that language becomes a tool in perpetuating sexism and violence against women...

Essays

Unmasking Female Circumcision

"Though the origins of the practice are unknown, many medical historians believe that FGM dates back to at least 2,000 years." Gimel Samera looks...

Essays

Not Just A Phase

"...in the workplace, a person can practically be forced out of their job by discrimination, taking numerous days off for fear of their physical...

Essays

The Birth of Bigotry

"The psychology of prejudice demands that we are each our own moral police". Maria Amir on the roots of bigotry and intolerance.

Fiction

The Score

"The person on the floor was unmistakeably dead. It looked like a woman; she couldnâ€™t be sure yet..." By Hawa Jande Golakai.