Editor’s Pick

Editor's Pick, Featured Articles, Literature, MagazineJune 14, 2014

Gateways: A Caribbean Sampler

By TMS Staff

An introduction to the Caribbean writers’ feature By John Robert Lee â€œI accept this archipelago of the Americas.â€ ~Â Derek Walcott (â€˜The Muse of Historyâ€™)…

Editor's Pick, Featured Articles, MagazineFebruary 15, 2014

Reclaiming the Narrative

By Kenneth Steven, Sana Hussain

Features Editor Sana Hussain’s essay explores sexual power plays in Pakistani Urdu writer Ismat Chughtaiâ€™s short stories.

Commentary, Editor's Pick, Essays, MagazineFebruary 15, 2014

Losing My Fandom

By Ira Joel, Mahnoor Yawar

In this essay from our Winter 2014 issue, Deputy Articles Editor Mahnoor Yawar writes on female geeks and their fight to stay visible in an increasingly misogynistic arena.

Editor's Pick, Featured Articles, MagazineMay 20, 2013

Belonging & Identity Through Literature

By TMS Staff

In the seventh issue’s cover feature, Sana Hussain writes about the constant quest for belonging in literature from the Lost Generation up to and including the twenty first century.

Spill-O…

By Colin Dodds

by Colin Dodds

Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Special FeaturesFebruary 19, 2013

Judgement Day

By Farah Ghuznavi

“Iâ€™m not crazy, you know, even if theyâ€™ve sent me to you for an assessment…” By Farah Ghuznavi.

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.