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The “Favors” We Never Asked For
I was sixteen the first time I read a book with a character with a disability like mine. Not even...
Contest Winner Spotlight: “Baby Arjun”
“Be there in half an hour.” Pari read the message from Rachel several times. After graduating from their Master of...
Ghar
I built a fort today. It was the first time in a while since I had done that, it felt...
Since They Like to Touch Hair
If you touch my hair, The skinny lady sang about it And I say: I hope my dandruff falls...
Second Person
Artist’s Statement: This piece was created in an attempt to articulate the distance created between myself and the self I present...
A Day of Attempted Destruction
This world would chew me up and spit me out if I let it It would quiet me, destroy me...
I Don’t Have Twenty Dollars for Poetry
This essay is inspired by what I thought would be a late-night tweet, which I am particularly fond of, but...
Contest Winner Spotlight: “The Poetry of A Body”
Olivia and I are on my bed, all geared up to watch porn. My laptop is between us. We split...
a guide to all the cuts of beef
cleft and butchered, now diagrammed: this male, this female, which is worse. my body apportioned to king and queen. the...
A Wake County Resident’s Perspective on Why It’s Important Not to Ban “Gender Queer”
As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a...
Stories of the Earth
She’d first seen shadow puppets when she was five. They were told to sit “Indian style” on the carpet in...
Ahistorical Accuracies
I have this dream— they find me wading in corn fields, my eyes like the stalk center of sunflower petals....