“Megan has been intentional and vocal about documenting her mothering journey through her debut anthology of poetry, Milk Fever, and her short story, Farang. The conversation was an eruption of shared joy in creativity and claiming space to create and practice feminist mothering.”
I was recently commissioned by Blackbird Books to design the book cover for the latest book by Malaika Wa Azania (Confessions of a Born-Free), Corridors of Death: The Struggle to Exist in Historically White Institutions.
“We sew new watering holes into our online ecosystems and drench ourselves in data. Hand sanitizer is our new holy water and even our greetings have become bone.”
Ukamaka Olisakwa, a phenomenal writer who I deeply admire, has kindly asked me to guest-edit nonfiction for the first issue of her new publication, Isele Magazine
As a graphic artist, illustrator and graphic designer with ten years experience, I’m looking to take on more clients in 2020. I’d be happy to establish a multi-project relationship or work on a single, once-off illustration.
How did Jonah survive the belly of the whale? Was my grandmother a secret priestess? Is God really a masculine energy - He seems more like a Mother, a She, to me.
I dedicate my poem to Fidelina Sandoval, my Honduran friend, fellow feminist, mother and magic maker. For all those afternoons we spent drinking coffee and cooking beans and eggs and grinding corn to make flour and surviving our kids and drinking wine, after.
“The Other Foundation and Jacana Literary Foundation's annual Gerald Kraak Anthology that contains African Perspectives on Gender, Social Justice and Sexuality have released their third volume titled 'The Heart of the Matter'. Described as a soft, subtle, deeply literary collection of stories by one of its curators Sisonke Msimang, this year's edition traverses the human condition in social settings, migration, motherhood, lonely masculinity, intersexuality, erotic and familial love - while retaining sensitivity and warmth. Via Skype we have Megan Ross, and Jarred Thompson joins us in studio, They are just two of the many contributors to the book.”
“Set against a backdrop of East Rand grit and seawater, Mohale roots her poems in an “ancient” Benoni where “meijik” mothers who practice religion and “mouth magic” coexist with ghosts in “honeycomb” mine dumps. While this collection is grown around the effects of erasure, silencing and queer sexual assault, it is also a testament to the intrinsic joy and power of art-making and self expression as a queer black femme in South Africa.”