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Further Reading
Saoirse
by Peter Gordon
Can you imagine naming a girl freedom? he asks me. Can you even know what that would do to her brain, starting when she was a baby, being someone who gets to go through life doing whatever the fuck she wants?
WATCHING MY MOTHER BAKE
by Michael Meyerhofer
Strangest of all was the knife, how gingerly she pushed it through the soft raw crust of the pie freshly-formed on the oven’s surface, preheat already rising in waves, her glance warning me not to touch— the same woman who decided, a week before my seventh birthday, to have me circumcised […]
Inside the Kaleidoscope
by Jane O. Wayne
All it takes is one turn
of the kaleidoscope and the butterfly-world shatters.
Why can’t you learn?
