Movable Type Issue No. 14: Sarah Birnbach

Movable Type Issue No. 14: Sarah Birnbach

Sarah Birnbach Honoring 19th-Century Black Women Writers Prior to the Civil War, the majority of Black Americans in the United States were forbidden to read or write. Even after the war, significant impediments to learning and literacy remained. Nevertheless, some...
Movable Type Issue No. 14: Sarah Birnbach

Movable Type Issue No. 14: Jeannine Oullette

Jeannine Oullette Wingless Bodies I. Void My father is not a swan. His bones are not hollow inside his flesh. The spaces between the phalanges of his feet are not spanned by delicate black webbing. My father has never once trumpeted. My father has no air sacs on his...
Movable Type Issue No. 14: Sarah Birnbach

Movable Type Issue No. 14: Liam Greenwell

Liam Greenwell Authenticity Does Not Exist My desire to travel came from my grandfather, Harold, even though he was that breed of person who preferred the backroads of Western Kentucky to anywhere else. He had road maps of Caldwell, Trigg, and Lyon counties with...
Movable Type Issue No. 14: Sarah Birnbach

Movable Type Issue No. 14: Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy MOVEABLE FEAST: GOING GLOBAL The vision for this initiative, an informal consortium of friends who all not only believe in building community, but recognize it’s never been more critical, has been a work-in-progress since the pre-Covid days. As we...
Movable Type Issue No. 14: Sarah Birnbach

Movable Type Issue No. 14: Carlyn Montes De Oca

Carlyn Montes De Oca Excerpt from Junkyard Girl: A Memoir of Ancestry,Family Secrets, and Second Chances Chapter 10: A Doll’s Story ON WEEKDAYS, Mami dropped me off before kindergarten at Abuelita’s bungalow near the train tracks on the other side of Carpinteria,...

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