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Jef Rouner

Houston, TX

Jef Rouner (he/she/they) is an award-winning freelance journalist from Houston, Texas. He is also the author of The Rook Circle an Stranger Words, and a former member of The Black Math Experiment.

New Show Reframes Black Art As A Comprehensive American Story

New Show Reframes Black Art As A Comprehensive American Story

Instead of trying to capture a particular artist’s statement, Bayou City Stewards is an extremely broad collection of art by Black creators that spans multiple disciplines and dozens of styles

A Texas Literary Horror Collection Rooted In Reality

A Texas Literary Horror Collection Rooted In Reality

Many of the stories in the collection from Texas women are designed to be pure nightmare fuel running on the gasoline of lost bodily autonomy

A Texas YouTuber Takes On The Consumerist Christian Right

A Texas YouTuber Takes On The Consumerist Christian Right

Taylor Leigh is a deconstructed Christian and a child of missionaries turned vocal critic of her former faith.

Celebrating Pride In Caldwell County

Celebrating Pride In Caldwell County

Pride of Caldwell County rekindles the original community spirit of Pride. Rather than a highly organized one-day affair, the town spreads out events in local venues throughout the week.

What Masako Miki’s Shapeshifters Say About Our World

What Masako Miki’s Shapeshifters Say About Our World

Rooted in the Shinto animism of Japan, artist Masako Miki uses a fairytale to make comments on the modern world in her Moody Center exhibition

A Texas Author Unleashes Schrödinger's Cat

A Texas Author Unleashes Schrödinger's Cat

The debut novel from acclaimed Houston poet and author Tomás Q. Morín centers on the most famous feline in physics

The Latest Texas Horror Shorts

The Latest Texas Horror Shorts

For those craving some Halloween scary fun, here's five shorts you can watch to get your spooky in gear