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Dolabela Engineer
By Guilherme Bergamini ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Reporter photographic...
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Apr 13, 20221 min read


What Girls Think About
By Angelica Esquivel ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Angelica Esquivel is a...
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Untitled Poem About This Body
By Jae Eason I. On a day, during a month that I will forget, I ask my mom for a hysterectomy. In her Long Island accent, which I believe...
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Apr 13, 20222 min read


Ancestras
By Miriam Damaris Maldonado Me parezco a ella y no quiero, pero tampoco quiero deshabitarme y desterrarme de mis gestos Me parezco a ella...
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What Is Sacred
By Beck Guerra Carter “we are in a world that is not ours. what do we do with the / dreams that touch our consciousness in the nude each...
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To Whom I Was too Afraid to Love
By Wren Ashenhurst Dolly Parton plays on the battery radio I am laid out under an oak tree the sun sits hunched low painting the...
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Maria Antonia to Jeff
By Michaela Mayer hands clamoring for my throat then the blade’s sharp descent— it was not intentional, neither the toes nor the people,...
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Life Cycle of a Daughter
By Zoe Raine Maki Illustrations are by B. Muse (Insta: @tastesliketelevision) Seeds: Seeds contain a plant with leaves, stems, and roots....
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Apr 13, 20229 min read


Weaving the Matriarchy
____________________________________________________________________________________________ Johanna Porter was born and raised in Miami,...
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Our Lady
By JW Summerisle ___________________________________________________________________________________________ JW Summerisle is an artist...
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That Summer When
By James Morena Last spring I purchased a longboard skateboard. I woke each morning, checked the weather, then slipped on my Adidas shell...
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A Queer Indie Game Gave Me Carpal Tunnel - Just One More Way The Body Keeps The Score
By Tenacity Plys Content Warnings: trauma, addiction, mental health issues. There aren’t many things in this life that I’ve done for more...
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Catholic Girl Draws Boobs
By Elle Warren One time, at one of my brothers’ hockey games, my mom, sister, and I sat at a small cafe inside the rink. Note: this is an...
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Mountain Pose
By Sarah Louise Vertigo: benign, positional. I’m thirty when it starts, one September morning when I’m walking home from the public...
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Apr 13, 202212 min read


Doll
By Nora Sun Doll has round blue eyes and wide pink lips like Jane. She has chubby red cheeks and thick brown hair like Jane. She’s the...
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Apr 13, 202210 min read


A Cordial Haunting
By Kayla King Kyle’s ghost drops into the kitchen through the ceiling. It’s seven-thirty in the morning, and Natasha is eating a bowl of...
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Apr 13, 202216 min read


an open letter to the south jersey repo company, 1995
By Dina Folgia to whom it may concern / concerning / slow burning felt for the man left weeping broke / broken / brakes newly fixed under...
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In Transit: Identity, Frankenstein, and Patchwork Princesses
By Acadia Currah You are a messy, melting-candle-wax amalgamation of everyone who has ever loved you. When you read Mary Shelley’s...
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antigone of the south
By Danté Émile Swarms of angels circle my ripe apple-heart. Moth to a flame, match to the skin, cardinal red. I wear my cloak-like grief...
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More Than One Hand is Too Much
By Robin Kinzer Her fingers are slithering through the long lilac snakes of my braided hair, when they begin to quiver. She goes still...
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