Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2021
“My Voice”: Autoethnographic Poems for a New Beginning
“My poems are not entirely mine. They belong to the people and events of my passage through life. For once the dam is breached its contents flow unabridged. – Milton Carp, poet at 91”
Autoethnographic Essay: The Minority in American Literature
“I have personally been that teenager, marking down “white” on a school application, hesitating to answer when an Anglo-American asked me “what are you?”, and leaving those experiences with a deeper sense of displacement.”
Jay & June, Part II: Under His Eye
“If abortion can be banned, largely due to Christian beliefs, what is to stop an overturning of the legalization of gay marriage or the disestablishment of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?” If The Handmaid’s Tale taught me anything, it is to never believe that I am truly safe, untouchable.”
Jay and June: A Walk in Gilead
“What if I were Offred? What if I was a handmaid or a gender traitor living in Gilead?”