Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation Kel Menton Finalist for the Lambda Literary

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry

Kirby Tan suffers an injury that sidelines her for the rest of the season

In these funny and insightful essays

She still bears the scars from that night

Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation Kel Menton Finalist for the Lambda LiteraryJoining the growing Black creative movement currently refashioning horses and cowboy imagery, a thoughtful, probing exploration of the shared history of Blackness and horses which reveals what its image can teach us about nationhood, race, and culture. Drawing on their personal history as a former urban equestrian, Black queer person, and child of Jamaican and Filipino immigrants, essayist and art critic Bitter Kalli contends the horse should be