Diamond Braxton (she/her) is a queer, mixed-race Black-Mexican writer pursuing an MFA at Texas State. She has work published or forthcoming in The Forge, Rejection Letters, The Acentos Review, Hellebore Press, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Alebrijes Review, and others and is also a Tin House ’21 Summer Workshop Alum. She is the Editor in Chief for Defunkt Magazine. She can be found on Twitter @DiamondGBraxton.
Content by Diamond Braxton
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How Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny’s Trash Gives Voice to Those the World Wants to Discard
What he found was a little chunk of plastic, something that could have been a kitchen utensil, the foot or the arm of something, a piece of something bigger, some meaningless trash. No, that’s not quite right. For us, it’s meaningless, but for the kid it’s not. It’s everything for that kid. – From Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny’s “Trash”
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On Grief, Loss, and Homecoming: How Beer-Breath Kisses Remembers Reservation Life in Eastern Oklahoma
Beer-Breath Kisses is a homecoming story and McKinney brings us along for the ride, to witness the past and to honor those who are no longer here. When the ride ends, the words linger, asking readers to remember the stories of those who came from a small town where the Earth is red.
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On Political Violence, the Occult, and Class in Mariana Enriquez’s Our Share of Night
Enriquez utilizes the fantastic and supernatural elements to show us the real horrors of what can happen when the wealthy and privileged gain access to deadly power.