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…
Category: Issue 15 – Gender
The Gender Issue
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 …
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 …
bell hooks
my feminism –
now don’t be scared by that
word, boy
no pussies allowed
here …
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? …
The Morning After
Grab this sick this
Bittersweet easing out
Of animal and
Into self-ness …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
剩女 (Sheng Nu. Left over Woman)
How old are you? Shouldn’t you be married? …
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 …
