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Environmental Disaster, Erosion of Home: A Conversation with Stephanie Soileau
My favorite fiction asks questions and doesn’t necessarily provide answers. It gives the full equation and you can draw whatever conclusions you want from that equation. The calculus is often complicated.
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The Problem with Trans
Because now, every time she dared to look out the turret window, she saw the transgenders gathered in the gardens below, staring up at her. Their skin glowed faintly phosphorescent. Sometimes their tongues would flick free of their mouths as…
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My Ma’s Hatred Grows Cavities Every Summer
She’d decided, fully cognizant of what I was, to sentence me to a future spent experiencing the depth of other people’s hatred of people like me.
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Who Gets to Decide What Liberation Looks Like?
I don’t want us replacing one set of commandments for women with another set stamped LIBERATION across the top. I don’t want either of us telling women that sleeping with a guy is feminist or not sleeping with a guy…
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Queering Taxonomies: A Conversation with Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
I think a lot about the often quoted (and sometimes misinterpreted) Joan Didion line: ‘We tell ourselves stories in order to live.’ We have to construct something to make sense of our experience of the world inside our heads, and…
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Seven Days in August
There was grief everywhere: in my drinking water, in my toothbrush, in the whisk I used to beat egg whites for a meringue. Eating a pastrami sandwich could turn me inside out, because it was his favorite; listening to his…
