A Bipolar Child by Pamela Carter
“I was seen as an exceptionally bright but difficult child rather than one with a treatable mental illness”
In My Here, In My Now, In My Body by Christie Tate
“This was goodbye to the tethers of repression and approval and virtue.”
She’s Really Let Herself Go by Jen Violi
“Let myself go on and rise from violation, from something stolen from me and my body”
Warm-blooded Animals by Kathleen Lane
“Liddy, you’re either going to be a scientist, a nurse, or a cold-blooded murderer.”
The Ping Pong Magician’s Assistant by Vix Gutierrez
“These women make a stark parody of the exploitation of female sex”
Haunted by Kristin Farr
“used as a tool across race and time to create — and preserve — extreme social stratification”
In This Body: How to Hate Yourself Less
“Being around the people I care about makes me feel lonelier”
Dark Shadows 1970 by David Ciminello
“pieces of boy, some soft, some hard as knotty pine…”
On Black Revolutionaries, with Yusef Bunchy Shakur, by Jeremy Williams
“You can’t be a revolutionary without educating yourself”
Could You Please Go by Robert Lashley
“he complex glory of being wrong and learning from it”
Interview with Astrologer Chani Nicholas
“We have to centralize those that are most marginalized in our struggles.”
Latency Period: Summer Blues
“I imagine myself swaddled once again in cozy thick fabrics in front of a fireplace”
Fruitcake and a Long Lost Family by Nina Rockwell
“I hadn’t danced so hard or sweat so much or laughed so loud.”
I Don't Want to Be Beautiful by Melanie Alldritt
“I hear my name and “possible gang member.””