Sweet
Writing by Jessie Irvin Rose. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. 0. She Two pigeons outside my window plunge their beaks into each other’s...
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Oct 30, 20232 min read
On Collage
Writing by Scarlett Smyth. Artwork by Jocelyn Arnold. Marguerite and I both cried cutting the chestnut trees. I hid behind a middling...
Oct 30, 20231 min read
Sixth Meditation
Writing by Kuba Olszak. Artwork by James Wake. Perhaps I can only love in a Cartesian way. I can either love the soul and the soul that...
Oct 30, 20231 min read
The Body: Is it mine? Exploring Violence, Ownership, and Gender Dysphoria
Writing by Heidi Hafner. Artwork by Seth Statham. I like that they asked me about the body, Not my body. Because it’s not mine, It never...
Feb 25, 20236 min read
The Pool
Writing by Jessie Irvin Rose. Illustration Berenika Murray. She lies in the heat and watches him work, watches him sway the net through...
Feb 25, 20234 min read
A Quick Trip to the Grocery Shop
Writing Isabela Caramico. Artwork by Rosa Rucola (soon to be found via @rucolasexternalbrain) A quick trip to the grocery shop. All I...
Feb 25, 20232 min read
Catharsis as Growth
Writing by Emily Tennant. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. Is catharsis necessarily a loud act? An uncontrollable, unexpected moment of...
Feb 25, 20235 min read
It Really Starts After the Funeral
Writing by Lola Weisselberg. Artwork by Leonie Hubert. She’s sitting by the door again. She’s always touching something, I’ve noticed;...
Feb 25, 20231 min read
Nosebleed
Writing Heather Sweeney. Artwork by Berenika Murray. When I pull it from the back of my throat It leaves a metallic savoury note Through...
Feb 25, 20235 min read
‘Be Glad and Rejoice with all your Heart’: Christian Catharsis as a Queer Woman
Writing by anonymous. Artwork by Cilla Sullivan. Christian worship is steeped in catharsis, acted out in rituals of purification and...
Feb 25, 20234 min read
On Asexuality
Writing by Sam Stevens. Artwork by Kate Granholm. I don’t eat meat. This has not always been easy for my peers to swallow. On school...
Feb 25, 20232 min read
Sandman
Writing by Michael Wu. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan and Kate Granholm. The Sphinx White, death does finding with sand inks a tread...
Dec 19, 20223 min read
Beauty and the Beast through an aroace lens
Writing by Sue O'Hara. Artwork by Kate Granholm (@katesartthings on instagram) I never had an obsession with Disney princesses as a...
Dec 19, 20221 min read
Birth
Writing by Molly Reed. Artwork by Kate Granholm (@katesartthings on Instagram) It was springtime When I gave birth to the darkness....
Dec 19, 20221 min read
Burn
Writing by Michael Wu. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. Game is candles’ ivory floor And perturbed pains in my sick bed war For there little...
Dec 19, 20227 min read
No Such Things as Dreams
Writing by Michael Wu. Artwork by Yury Aleksanyan. The undergrad has tried telling the black crows, the tall crows in suits, “When I woke...
Oct 22, 20225 min read
The Sea as Queer Liminal Space
Writing by Jessie Irvin Rose. Artwork by Yizhi Liu. I am being held by the ocean. It’s September, and the last time I will go in until...
Oct 22, 20226 min read
The Voice
Writing by Myra Alawadhi. Artwork by Paola Valentina. “Bitch.” The club is packed to the brim and quintessentially rowdy, but his voice...
Oct 22, 20223 min read
In the Smoking Area
Writing by Cristina Rizzo. Artwork by Juliet Richards. “You ok?” He scares me. His voice hugged by the cushioned music from inside the...
Oct 22, 20222 min read
Selected Poems
Writing by Cristina Rizzo. Artwork by Paola Valentina. Santo Stefano in August Ma quanti bagni hai fatto? Tutti! The boy’s happy – a...
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