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Category: Issue 15 – Gender

The Gender Issue

November 5, 2018December 3, 2018Vamika Sinha

Thank u, next

But underestimating Ariana Grande is a gross miscalculation of what she represents –  the power of a woman with a voice, the healing escapism of pop culture, the triumph of love over pain…

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November 5, 2018December 3, 2018Samantha Neugebauer

Frida Kahlo, Making Herself an Exhibit

I am younger than I am now and wearing a green velvet dress. My face is painted and I have violet flowers tucked within my dark hair. My earrings drip to my shoulders and I feel dazzlingly happy as I sit in the passenger’s seat beside the man I love …

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November 5, 2018November 5, 2018Amanda Malamut

The Internet Saved My Queer Soul

The internet is weird and scary, but it is undeniable that it is one of the most important tools for shaping the LGBTQIA+ community and culture …

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November 5, 2018November 5, 2018Vamika Sinha

bell hooks

my feminism –
now don’t be scared by that
word, boy
no pussies allowed
here …

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November 5, 2018postscriptpublication

WELP, MIRRORS!

You overslept. Wakey wakey. Out your bed you go. Your hair is a mess. Snap. Mild headache. You hobble over to the mirror, to see yourself. What do you see? …

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November 5, 2018November 5, 2018Zoe Jane Patterson

The Morning After

Grab this sick this
Bittersweet easing out
Of animal and
Into self-ness …

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November 5, 2018November 5, 2018Ruobing Sabrina Zhao

I no longer knew Xinyu, and her red boots

two girls were born last night
I helped them put on red underpants right
away, I dressed one in red boots …

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November 5, 2018November 6, 2018sofiasears

A Letter on Men, to Harry Styles

You were the first. My first. Headfirst, stinging eyes, scathing skin. The first time I wanted wanted. What is a girl’s obsession? What will – what can – it do, become, transcend? As soon as I recognize it, there is a crater of longing in my heart, overstuffed, leaking and ravenous …

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November 5, 2018November 5, 2018Samantha Neugebauer

a history of pet monkeys with camille alaphilippe

gilt-y woman of monkey pleasure
enameled gown with plates stolen from
merfolk palaces somewhere undersea between
here and …

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November 5, 2018December 7, 2018kaashifhajee

Growing Up With Rohan

But now that Rohan had turned 15, the socially acceptable age for a boy to be mingling with girls, this playful, well-meaning question too became part of the dinner conversation menu …

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November 5, 2018November 5, 2018Lillian Snortland "chaimihai"

Who is Madeline’s Madeline?

Madeline’s Madeline is an exercise in tension. It explores the interplays of tension and release in personal reality, which exude beyond the film, becoming, very much, a movie on anxieties. Watching it, I felt my own fingers tighten …

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November 5, 2018February 6, 2019Zoe Jane Patterson

Dear Rihanna

I was a slack kneed and muddied good girl
Shivering with secret delight when the bear
Tore the salmon into chunky flesh food …

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November 5, 2018November 9, 2018Thirangie Jayatilake

剩女 (Sheng Nu. Left over Woman)

How old are you? Shouldn’t you be married? …

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November 5, 2018December 3, 2018Zoe Jane Patterson

Wendy and the Mermaids: A Peter Pan Tale

Far away, in a place called Neverland, there is a special rock pool in the mermaid lagoon where baby mermaids wiggle and splash their fins. Their tired fangs gnaw on fish bones and call out at different frequencies, testing their voices on the most powerful notes …

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