Coming together for the first time in my tenure without a prompt, the following issue nonetheless feels as though it is circling something specific, even if that something is difficult to name.
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The screenshot interrupts the flow, capturing a fleeting thought within the machinery of creation. It is a time stamp, a photograph, or an idea jotted down in a notebook. The act of capturing a thought gives a fleeting moment a platform to become something.
Each screenshot captures a moment of pause within the flow of making, a small act of noticing amid continuous motion.
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BlackFlash Spring/Summer 2026 “In my time at BlackFlash, we’ve persistently renegotiated the magazine’s identity, careening between vestigial past eras while plotting a future course, all…
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From BlackFlash Expanded
BlackFlash Expanded is excited to launch our series focusing on collectives with an archive of Prairie Collectives that have and continue to shape the region.
From the archives
This series of poems germinates from Mercedes Eng and Cecily Nicholson’s volunteer work for Emma’s Acres during the pandemic. Poetry work is a necessary documenting and honouring practice in this place as we plant toward abolitionist futures.
