ENOUGH: Ulcers Like Men’s Eyes

ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women, trans, and nonbinary people who engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

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Three men look through peep holes in a wooden fence. The text at the top reads "Ulcers like men's eyes on young women."
An untitled poem made of cut-out words. The poem reads: female assigned victims, not of the body but of a hostile world, a shelter becomes a prison, a womb becomes a form to be convicted. Mounting evidence indivates that this violence occurs frequently, but "average" figures are often meaningless when it is women's torture." Four hands are raised at the bottom of the poem, and a man looks at the poem. Everything is on a pink background.
An erasure poem with blacked out lines. The text at the top reads: A woman's existence redacted by men. The visible words in the poem read body, body, body, body, body.

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Laura Mota-Juang is a Taiwanese-Brazilian shameless experimentalist from São Paulo and based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. Her work has been published by PRISM International, carte blanche, Headlight Anthology, So To Speak, ANMLY, and elsewhere. She is the author of Light Spill (Block Party Press 2023), a chapbook inspired by Physic's imagination. In 2023, Laura was a finalist of the QWF's carte blanche Prize. She is currently painting creatures on thrifted garments at No Fiction Projects. She is @imnofiction on Instagram.

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