Barbara Jane Reyes

Aug 06 2020

Brown Girl Mixtape

This is such an experience, actually listening all the way through my Brown Girl Mixtape, which I confess ...

Jun 18 2020

Poem in progress: The Book of Asking

OK, so I wrote this poem because on Twitter, Erin Entrada Kelly asked, “What was your first word.” ...

Jun 16 2020

The Book of Asking

I don’t know how to include the following sets of questions in my manuscript, but today at least, ...

Jun 12 2020

Pilipinx Kapwa Poetics and Manuscript Progress

The following thoughts originally came from FB posts, which other folks — writers, authors, students, educators have engaged ...

May 26 2020

Letters to a Young Brown Girl and the brown girls who read this

What I wrote two years ago: May 25, 2018: Manuscript progress, re: ‘some brown girl.’ It’s looking more ...

May 18 2020

Some things about gender I’ve been thinking about what I want to write next

Gender is hard. Expectations — from everyone — are shitty. You can’t be independent; you can’t make your ...