By Megan Milks This excerpt from the short story “Kill Marguerite” takes place after the protagonist, Caty, has already beat Level One and killed...
By Samiya Javed “You’re a King and I’m a Lion-heart” * I’d rather you curse your stars than curse my mother’s overburdened...
By Nicole Shantè White This creative visual addresses queer invisibility by encompassing the intricacies of the Gay Liberation manifesto and the Black Panther Party’s...
By Mohadesa Najumi Dear Woman Who’s Made to Feel Like She’s Difficult to Love, You beautiful, soft delicate thing. You intricate thing. Why do...
By Carolyn Davis Last year, I sat in front of my television in Brookline, a Boston suburb, and watched on live TV as police officers...
By Megan Koopman When you become a woman and your breasts start to show in a way that makes vice principals shake and neighborhood...
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By Emily Barasch The dominos fall quickly in the way that I choose And I have to act...
By Eve Dunbar Tayari Jones attended a brunch in Brooklyn to which I was also invited a few weeks ago. Seven-deep in the a living...
By Christina Peterson As a student, I never thought I would be stuck in a place where I face the possibility of failing a class...
By Kaila Philo At least, this is what I’ve taken from you all these years. Black women aren’t meant to be love interests or high...
By Lindsay Lusby Girl with no Hands Her own father mistook her for an apple tree, full-trunked and red-cheeked. . So he hacked at limbs,...
The Walking Dead Girl in my history class totally started looking like a zombie from The Walking Dead. ...
Born and raised in Chicago, I find myself perpetually drawn to writers who live and work there—and who make the city a character in their...
By Maya Pindyck The Count His command: Hold out your hand. Grabs her palm, the shade of white asparagus. Shoves in it a...
By Mohadesa Najumi Dedicated to my mother. They try to shrink you. Tame you. Convince you that all your rage is a product of your...
By SooJin Pate When most people think about love, it is usually a feeling that flows outward towards some person or some thing: “I love...
By Vaidehi Mujumdar We’ve already buried so much of our different, it feels so hard to find. Almost every day, my friend and I exchange...