They’re Coming for Black Womxn Too: The Strategically Disturbing Assault on Womxn’s Bodies Written by Dr. Katherine Bankole-Medina The Alabama senate passed one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the United States, HB314 “The Human Life Protection Act.”...
Meat is Metaphor, Life is Metaphor Written by Madison Snider Language can only proximate our realities. We learn it as a code, a system we agree to play along with in order to communicate beyond the present. It requires a level of flexibility from its users. Language...
Medusa and Me: Twenty-Five Years of Female Rage Written by Mary Valentis and Phill Arensberg For 25 or more years Mary Valentis and her son Phill Arensberg have been carrying on a cross-country conversation, sometimes fiery, about culture, gender, race, rage, and the...
“He Too”: What Happens in the Arts When the Innovators Fall? My “Me Too” statement, which debuted on social media at the height of last year’s clamor over the various high-profile men accused of abusing women, was this: “Me too, more times than I...
“How do you say that word?”: Choreopoems and Doing It for the Culture By Monica Prince The summer after I graduated high school, my sister called. “I need you to write something down, then go to the bookstore tomorrow and buy it,” she said. “Why?”...
Harry Potter Fanfiction, Hot Pockets, and Writing By Janice Yu Cheng Like many typical single-parent, Hot-Pockets-for-dinner, latchkey kids who grew up in the ’90s, I had a lot of time to myself. I liked to read, and so was never without friends, real or...
