Nichole Perkins’s poetry collection, Lilith, But Dark, begins and ends with childhood memories.
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Spec Script: Abdominal (Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place, Reboot)
Ryan Reynolds woke on a Tuesday morning in his hotel room with the taste of Toblerone on his tongue.
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Four Poems by Eloisa Amezcua
You’ve taken punches
like a man in the liquor store
parking lot & that time
you checked out Eddie’s girl
for too long when you drove
from Pacoima with your friends
through hours of traffic to see
the Venice boardwalk at sunset.
This essay originally appeared in Barrelhouse print issue 18, which you can totally buy by clicking on this link.
Battle Vest, by Berry Grass
I recently wrote a tweet that got 60+ retweets and nearly 150 likes which read, “\m/ being trans is the most metal thing you can be \m/” and I pinned the tweet to my profile and while, yes, it was a joke in reference to an actual Vatican cardinal denouncing trans people as “demonic,” as “causing the death of God,” I believe every word of the tweet. Thinking about why it resonates so much with me is like a thorough unbuttoning.
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Persistence is in Our History, by George Hickman
I am writing this some time after I first read about Caeneus, the transgender hero of Ancient Greece, in the library of my small university. I
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