Archive - KHÔRA

Issue 32: Meet the new curated team | Featured Artist Charles Ritchie

Q: Where do KHÔRA’s artists and writers come from?

Apr 18 •

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Issue 31 Special Edition: Nude

"My mother had no signature lipstick brand or colour she routinely bought and used. The lipsticks in her collection were comprised mainly of Testers…

Apr 12

Issue 31 Special Edition: Muscle Memory

"When I met her, it was almost spring. We rode back to my place in a taxi with the windows down. Then she tied me to my headboard and the first hot…

Apr 12

Issue 31 Special Edition: Mother is Here

"Mother is here. Mother gives Baby Girl a bath in the kitchen sink. This is the last night they will be together. Mother placing Baby Girl in warm water…

Apr 10

Issue 31 Special Edition: 11 Facts About Narwhals

"I should have been sleeping but wasn’t. My eyes and mind poked open by a question asked of me earlier in the day. Do you have other kids?"

Apr 4

Issue 31 Special Edition: Stop Gentrifying the Afterlife

"What is kombucha? And, who hurt you?"

Apr 2 •

March 2024

Issue 31 Special Edition: Thought Path Forest Mind

"The Earth is in crisis. The Forests I paint are older and wiser than any of us humans. The Forests are trying to tell us how important they are to our…

Mar 28

Issue 30: summer salt | my progeny | Customs Declaration | Stingers & Summits

"I remember your mop broom eyes, the Fabuluso iguanas, your fingers unseaming, the sad days of salt, the bottles of spic n span. Back then I didn’t…

Mar 13 •

Issue 30 | "You can’t compromise my joy." | Photo Essay by Featured Artist Kori Price

"For this exhibition, I created a Black woman’s headspace to demonstrate how this tension between joy and terror can exist internally..."

Mar 5 •

February 2024

Issue 30 | New Book and Featured Essay by Grace Loh Prasad

"The way you know how your grandma’s house smells, the kind of oolong tea she drinks, her fondness for soft caramels and flashy orchids, but you don’t…

Feb 29

November 2023

Marvin Gaye for President | poem by Featured Writer Donnelle McGee

"every poem a love poem / every song a love song"

Nov 7, 2023

Khôra in The Best American Essays

((( + we want YOU. )))

Nov 2, 2023 •

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