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To Dig a Home
I baby but do not cry. At night, I wander the shores looking for my tears in the sand. My footprints, just skid marks in a desert
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Self. Pleasure.
After all that foreplay, I’m brooding—my feathers, ruffled. Then, the me who wants me takes me to bed, undresses me slowly, covers me in kisses. I’ve always had a way with me: I know what I want and how to…
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What Is Freedom: Roz Chast
Freedom is about choice. You have your Classic Coke or Pepsi and your Diet Coke or Pepsi and your Coke Zero (my personal favorite!) or Pepsi Zero Sugar. All of those come with or without caffeine. Plus there are the…
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The Biggest Ikea in America
This place wasn’t for us, we didn’t deserve it, we didn’t belong. We had only come to play a temporary game of pretend. I missed our old furniture, how everything was made of wood with real density and nothing fit…
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What Is Freedom: Alexander Chee
I long to one day live in a country with more freedom available to me and everyone I know and don’t know, more than we’ve all ever known. And for that to be this country. But that has felt like…
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A Millennial’s Anthem on Travel and Multiplicity: A Conversation with Cinelle Barnes
“It’s only publishing that loves these silos and categories, because maybe it makes it easier for algorithms to streamline for sales. But I think it’s due time that we in literature embraced cultural and artistic multiplicity. The multi-narrative is the…
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A Potion for Sadness
A nurse stood at the door—scrubs, clipboard, the whole nine yards. “We’re ready for you,” she said. I followed her down a hall and behind a curtain, where I changed into the robe, laid back in the wheelie-bed, and sexted…
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Low Tide, County Line
I’m here to return a car I never rented. The clerk doesn’t ask questions his face already shaped by other people’s lies.
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What Is Freedom: Sarah Schulman
Freedom is the opportunity for each person to have what they need to move towards who they want to be. This means recognition, access, support, communication, and a reconfiguration of hierarchies so that what we strive for advances others as…
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senescence
to measure the dark, to measure the lemon,the frost, crackthe swivel in the cart at rest, in the darkmarooned leaves mulch beneath snowso no now owna wood slab divorced from a treedisplays bare insidesforthright as an organwith no coveringbald without…
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“What African Feminism Makes Possible”: A Conversation with Minna Salami
“The point of books like mine and the wider canon is to help people take action. Action comes after one has had the idea powerfully illuminate a situation that is no longer sustainable. My book speaks to the deep psyche…
