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Clarissa Brooks

About

Clarissa Brooks is a journalist and cultural worker based in Atlanta, Georgia. She orients her work in black queer feminism with a focus on the abolition of prisons, policing, and surveillance. She is trying her best and writing about it along the way.

Articles

Issue 111, Winter 2020

The Heart of Black Disneyland

This weekend you get to invent yourself anew or relive the glory days of college in all of its naive youthful wonder.

By Clarissa Brooks
Issue 116, Spring 2022

A Return to the Black Mountains with Moses Sumney

There’s a surrender to nature, and also a kind of existential purpose that emerges for me when immersed in nature. And we had to surrender to the elements in order to make the film.

By Clarissa Brooks
Web Feature

Terence Nance's Interdimensional Healing

Random Acts of Flyness does the work of layering feeling, memory, and time to explore the nerve that is consciousness.

By Clarissa Brooks

University Ave.

I have enough tear gas in my blood to know what doomsday tastes like.

By Clarissa Brooks