POLLYANNA-ISH III: AND YET
Pollyanna-ish is a column about the process of becoming (undefinable). Exploring the intersection between life and art, these essays will explore and intermingle different aspects…
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DON’T @ ME (AN INTERIOR MONOLOGUE): AUGUST
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a cis, demisexual woman navigating the world in a nontraditional body? In this ongoing column,…
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Stoked on the taddies
A semi-balmy Spring day, 29 degrees, sunny but not too sunny, and like any typical day in Newcastle in 2007 there was a relaxed…
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Magical Girls at the End of the World
Sailor Moon – also known as Usagi Tsukino or Princess Serenity—watches over the Earth she devoted her life to protecting. Usagi Tsukino, the…
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A nightmare I have is that I end up where I started
CW: references to suicide, alcohol abuse For twenty-five years I lived without having an answer to ‘What is your biggest fear?’, but yesterday…
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I am not a poem // after Susan Gubar // women as art objects
Calypso Spendlove is a British-born writer living in Melbourne, she has been previously published in…
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Here
I’ve lived in the littoral zones that puncture coasts with sea air and sun. It’s always golden—inchoate rain torn away by tropic light. I…
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Rebel Girl You Are The Queen of Something Deep Inside
The growth-hormone injections I had to have every night before bed from age eight to ten did not make me grow as everyone hoped….
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The Words of Men
CW sexual assault and violence My life is becoming harder to separate from the news. The news, I have come to understand, is…
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