Mixed Company Zine Project
THE MIXED COMPANY PROJECT (2015)
Written, designed, and edited by women of color, MIXED COMPANY is a collection of fiction and visual art offered as an expression of contemporary Black thought. Its goal is to expand notions of reading and seeing into the past, present, and future by highlighting the interplay between tradition and innovation. Continuing the long-standing practice of independent, street-level creatives in New Orleans, Mixed Company seeks to counter the control of literary and cultural gate-keepers over access to ownership and the production of art. We challenge both consumers and creatives to consider the possibility of a radical reconstruction of what it takes to circulate your work locally, nationally, and internationally. Mixed Company was created to challenge all lines of demarcation that exist between genres, countries and peoples. We offer this work as another kind of capital and different modality of exchange. In light of catastrophic levels of displacement (200,000 + Black people yet to return to New Orleans), we unite these narratives to assert, undeniably, that WE REMAIN. Edited by Jeri Hilt and Kirstina K. Robinson.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Addie Citchens is a Mississippi native, and New Orleans based writer of literary fiction. She has been featured in the Oxford American’s Best of the South edition, in Calloloo journal, and others.
Jeri Hilt is a former lecturer of African Studies and International Development issues at Tennessee State and Dillard Universities. She has also worked with research, development, and teaching projects in South Sudan, Kenya, Burundi, and the United Kingdom. Hilt, a Louisiana native, currently teaches literacy intervention at an elementary school in New Orleans.
Ambata Kazi-Nance is a writer and teacher living in her hometown New Orleans, LA with her husband and son. She writes for Azizah magazine and Grow Mama Grow, a blog for Muslim mothers.
J.R. Ramakrishnan’s journalism has appeared in Style.com, Harper’s Bazaar, Chicago Tribune, and Grazia, amongst other publications. Her fiction has appeared in [PANK]. A graduate of the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and Columbia School of Journalism, she arrived in New Orleans by way of Brooklyn, London, and Kuala Lumpur, her original hometown. She is director of literary programs for the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival.
Kristina K. Robinson is a native New Orleanian and graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana. She has taught Literature at Dillard University. Her poetry appears in The Baffler and The Xavier Review. As well as other writing in (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race and on media outlets, such as, Racialicious, Room 220, and Breakthrough Magazine.
Published by the New Orleans Loving Festival. Edited by Jeri Hilt and Kristina K. Robinson. For more information visit themixedcompanyproject.tumblr.com or www.facebook.com/TheMixedCompanyProject. Purchase MIXED COMPANY.
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Project details/pics here...
Co-Editors Jeri Hilt and Kirstina K. Robinson
For more information contact: [email protected]
Written, designed, and edited by women of color, MIXED COMPANY is a collection of fiction and visual art offered as an expression of contemporary Black thought. Its goal is to expand notions of reading and seeing into the past, present, and future by highlighting the interplay between tradition and innovation. Continuing the long-standing practice of independent, street-level creatives in New Orleans, Mixed Company seeks to counter the control of literary and cultural gate-keepers over access to ownership and the production of art. We challenge both consumers and creatives to consider the possibility of a radical reconstruction of what it takes to circulate your work locally, nationally, and internationally. Mixed Company was created to challenge all lines of demarcation that exist between genres, countries and peoples. We offer this work as another kind of capital and different modality of exchange. In light of catastrophic levels of displacement (200,000 + Black people yet to return to New Orleans), we unite these narratives to assert, undeniably, that WE REMAIN. Edited by Jeri Hilt and Kirstina K. Robinson.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Addie Citchens is a Mississippi native, and New Orleans based writer of literary fiction. She has been featured in the Oxford American’s Best of the South edition, in Calloloo journal, and others.
Jeri Hilt is a former lecturer of African Studies and International Development issues at Tennessee State and Dillard Universities. She has also worked with research, development, and teaching projects in South Sudan, Kenya, Burundi, and the United Kingdom. Hilt, a Louisiana native, currently teaches literacy intervention at an elementary school in New Orleans.
Ambata Kazi-Nance is a writer and teacher living in her hometown New Orleans, LA with her husband and son. She writes for Azizah magazine and Grow Mama Grow, a blog for Muslim mothers.
J.R. Ramakrishnan’s journalism has appeared in Style.com, Harper’s Bazaar, Chicago Tribune, and Grazia, amongst other publications. Her fiction has appeared in [PANK]. A graduate of the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and Columbia School of Journalism, she arrived in New Orleans by way of Brooklyn, London, and Kuala Lumpur, her original hometown. She is director of literary programs for the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival.
Kristina K. Robinson is a native New Orleanian and graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana. She has taught Literature at Dillard University. Her poetry appears in The Baffler and The Xavier Review. As well as other writing in (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race and on media outlets, such as, Racialicious, Room 220, and Breakthrough Magazine.
Published by the New Orleans Loving Festival. Edited by Jeri Hilt and Kristina K. Robinson. For more information visit themixedcompanyproject.tumblr.com or www.facebook.com/TheMixedCompanyProject. Purchase MIXED COMPANY.
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Project details/pics here...
Co-Editors Jeri Hilt and Kirstina K. Robinson
For more information contact: [email protected]