Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue In 1765, the first Magdalene Asylum in Ireland opened. Named after Mary Magdalene, the prostitute who sought redemption in the Bible, this was a Christian church-run institution for “fallen women.”...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue as i grow up i learn to spit out words of distaste to bite only the cookies that are under-baked to rename my identity out of spite in response my mother tells me that she who asks for...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue Naval Support Activity Hospital, DaNang, Vietnam February 1968 A corpsman brought in the Marine lieutenant with the liberty pass and clean, pressed uniform—rear-echelon motherfucker, Jane...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue A group of men followed us down Broadway, the bustling honky tonk district in Nashville, Music City, U.S.A. They shouted to us: “Ladies, ladies, LAAADDDIIIIEES.” We stopped on the street corner and...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue I find out I probably can’t get pregnant during the worst month of my life. Those are two half-lies, only because the actual words my doctor used were “your uterus is a tricky environment,” and the...
