Leah Johnson
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ESSAYS.
We No Longer Need Coming-Of-Age Movies About Straight White Men (
Teen Vogue
)
How Queer YA Novels Taught Me to Write My Own Happy Ending (Autostraddle)
'The Mighty Ducks' Movies Taught Me How to Survive a Pandemic (Catapult)
The Jonas Brothers Have Moved Past Their Purity Rings. Why Can't I?
(BuzzFeed Reader)
How Young Adult Literature Taught Me to Love Like a White Girl (Electric Lit
)
Peter Kavinsky Is Every White Boy I’ve Spent My Adulthood Getting Over (The Establishment
)
Why I'm Reckoning With A Newfound Fear Of Live Music Festivals (Blavity
)
"Cash Me Ousside" Shows How Our Society Rewards White Appropriation Of Black Culture (Bustle
)
G
oogle is Free: on the importance of white allies doing their own work
(HuffPost)
An Open Letter to Kanye Kardashian-West (Indiana Daily Student
)
PROFILES.
How Quinn Whitney Wilson is Giving Black Women the Big, Beautiful Art They Deserve (R
efinery29)
INTERVIEWS.
Mary H.K. Choi Thinks That Instagram Is Doritos (Electric Lit
)
Lilliam Rivera Writes Young Adults As the Face of Resistance
(
Electric Lit
)
Hanif Abdurraqib Knows the World Is On Fire, but Music Can Still Offer Us a Way Out (Electric Lit
)
In conversation with Morgan Parker on 'Magical Negro' (LUMINA Journal
)
José Olivarez on cultivating conversations more useful than shame
(LUMINA Journal)
In Conversation with
Angel Nafis (Catapult Community
)
World Before Page: A
Conversation With NBA Finalist Jamel Brinkley (The Adroit Journal)
On Location: Bridgett Davis
(WFIU)
SHORT FICTION.
On Mobs and Movements (Auburn Avenue)
The Endless In-Between (Cosmonauts Avenue
)
What Surrounds
(Yes Poetry)
Of Freedom and Ruin (Faded Out
)
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