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? …
