My weird depression showed up this summer like “hey sis!” And I was like “fuck my life”! I wasn’t ready. This time, it caught me off guard.
Issues
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- Bodily Autonomy Special Issue, 2022-23
- Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024
- Climate Change Special Issue, 2022
- Laughter Special Issue, 2023
- Queer Special Issue, 2023-24
- Volume 1, Issue 1 (2021)
- Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)
- Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
- Volume 2, Issue 2 (2022)
- Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
- Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)
- Volume 3, Issue 1 (2023)
- Volume 3, Issue 2 (2023)
- Volume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
- Volume 3, Issue 4 (2023)
- Volume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
- Volume 4, Issue 2 (2024)
- Volume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
- Volume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
The dynamic taking place in these poems was autoethnography, a hybrid of my investigation of the 1960's coupled with my personal experience.
I documented my two-month diet in a food journal and it began as a personal effort to lose weight following a "Barthes diet".
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
What happens when a witch is black? This piece is a salute to the transformational beauty of cosplay & all the laughter it inspires.
Within the context of this poem, I tried to explain what was happening to my body because of SLE and what I was thinking.
After 34 years of monogamy I entered the dating app world and began writing the first weekend I was single. This is story of my experience.
A Startling Note: "Looking for Gay Friends" in the Triangle Place narrates a gay man’s experience of sexual awakening on a university campus.
This story explores childbirth-related trauma and postpartum mental health through the lens of a ‘good birth.’
My essay tells my life story in relation to a specific moment in the history of American women’s access to abortion and reproductive justice.
“Letter from Okinawa” describes my research and observations into the impact the U.S. military has had on the island, and tells the story of the Japanese government’s historical culpability by colonizing, controlling, and discriminating against the island.
This writing is based on storytelling, common in Mexican culture.
