Josh Christian: I wanted to start with a broader question to get us into your life and work. I think what struck me about it was that there were so many threads that are happening, and you’re introducing your reader to this whole world of disability that maybe they haven’t even begun to consider, right? […]
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On the Freedom and Creativity in Messiness: A Conversation with The Cyborg Jillian Weise
Tag, You’re It (Cyborg Sonnet)
by Jillian Weise
#IfYouGetThis #CripTheVote #SendMeADM #DeafTalent #WithTheNameOf #DisabledAndCute #ThePlaceWhere #ActuallyAutistic #WeSatTogether #DisabilityTooWhite #For26Days #AbleismExists #NotUsExactlyBut #AccessIsLove SEE MORE: Interview with Jillian Weise THE CYBORG JILLIAN WEISE is a poet, video artist, and disability rights activist. Cy’s first book, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, was reissued in a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface. The Book of Goodbyes won […]
Twasday
by Jillian Weise
The first time I slipped between Tuesday and Wednesday, into a Twasday, I saw Amy. She was wearing her tattoos again. I had not seen her in years. She asked me to help her build a casket. She had the hammer and nails. The saw was lying on the ground next to a plank of […]
Ashley Shew Just Invented the Word Cryborg
by Jillian Weise
How to use it in a sentence. Elon Musk is such a cryborg when we critique neuralink. Don’t be a cryborg about it— just fucking provide access. After Stephen Hawking died all the cryborgs came out like “he’s walking in heaven.” Enough with your cryborg protest. We don’t care that you think the word “ableist” […]
Until Our Mouths Hurt by Aida Moradi Ahani
(Translated from Persian by Siavash Saadlou)
This is a family photo, with a no te on the back that says, Autumn of 1986. The two sitting over on the blanket are my mom and dad, and the two chortling girls of kindergarten age chasing each other on the lawn behind them are me and my sister. Once again, they’d taken us […]
2021 MAYDAY Fiction and Poetry Prize Winners
We’re excited to announce the results of the 2021 MAYDAY Poetry and Fiction Prizes! The winners each received $1,000 and broadsides of their work will be available soon. Submissions for the 2022 prizes will open in the spring. Judges to be announced. 2021 MAYDAY POETRY PRIZE Winner: “Garçon,” by A. Shaikh. Judge: Jacques Rancourt. Finalists […]
WHAT MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME
by Michael Meyerhofer
This poem was selected as a finalist for the 2021 MAYDAY Poetry Prize. The older you get, the less likely someone will want to see you naked. Stretch less. Don’t give into the desire to stroll through walls because it’s a long fall to the earth’s core. Remember that everything puckers out of nothing, […]
Lolly Pop
by Toby Lloyd
This story was selected as a finalist for the 2021 MAYDAY Fiction Prize. It wasn’t just me, no one liked Polly. Not saying she wasn’t our friend. I’m saying we didn’t like her. She joined in Year 9, and there was something funny about her coming in the middle of term. Her parents didn’t move […]
The Craft of Knives by José Pedro Leite
(Translated from Portuguese by Richard Simas)
In the middle of winter, I discovered an invincible summer inside me. -Albert Camus (from Part III of “The Invention of Summer”) My idea […]
Always Show Up: An Interview with Artist Dominic Chambers
by Aya Kusch
Dominic Chambers is a New Haven-based artist whose immersive, brightly-hued color field paintings explore Black intellectualism and moments of leisure. He earned a BFA from the Milwaukee School of Art and Design in 2016 and an MFA from Yale University in 2019, and has exhibited in shows across the US and Europe. In this interview, […]
