Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue Twenty-five is not seventeen. Essie’s body is different now. As she climbs down the subway stairs, her knees twinge, clicking through the motions. She can feel it, each step-down. She doesn’t run down...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue I have given birth to three sons—two living and one dead. The one who died was my first, when I was 22; he lived for an hour. He was a breech birth, so I needed a Caesarean—I never held him or saw him....
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 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 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 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...
