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Further Reading
LGBT Writing and the 21st Century
by Chase Dimock and Amy King
On Sunday, June 12th, 2016, the most fatal mass shooting in American history took the lives of 49 LGBT people and allies. Up to this point, there had been a culturally pervasive sense that the upward trajectory in the cause of LGBT rights meant that LGBT people were becoming less susceptible to bigotry and violence […]
Unrequited
by Kelly Miller
I’m masturbating across the hall from her dying. I’ve just finished giving her a bed bath. With that crazy half-detachment required when someone you love has stopped being that person. And has become instead this sickness. A moany dissolving body to be turned and agitated and tended. She can’t take soap or touch. I squeezed water from a soft […]
POLICE, ADJECTIVE—SOME THOUGHTS by Joy Al-Sofi
Deconstruction, noun. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the underlying assumptions. – Collins English Dictionary Myth, noun. The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs. – Robert Graves, “Introduction,” New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology Deconstruction began as […]
