Current Issue: Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, and Feminism
Editor’s Note: BODILY AUTONOMY, PRIVACY, & FEMINISM
Dec 9, 2022
Dear Reader, The theme of this issue is “Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism.” Writers were...
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Hell hath no fury like a woman!
Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Xanthe P. Russel Artist statement: In this piece, I was inspired by a set of very powerful but...
Read MoreMy Body, Their Choice
Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Julie Morgenlender Outraged, but not shocked: that’s how I felt about the recent Supreme...
Read MoreAround the World: Warsaw, Poland An Interview with Agata Maksimowska
Robyn: Agata, please tell us about yourself. Agata: I am a 42-year-old woman living in Warsaw,...
Read MoreAlways a Sunday Morning
Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Amy Cook My friend, newly returned from abroad, is texting our group about being out of sync with time. It is Sunday morning, and “mass shooting” is trending again. I am scouring Twitter; what is Club Q, and how do these...
Read MoreAbortion Poem
Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Poetry
By Syd Shaw “I never felt much about it either way, but the doctors told me after that I...
Read MoreThe Right to Our Voices
Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Daphne L. Kanellopoulos When you hit enough roadblocks, you’re too tired to do anything but...
Read MoreHeifer
Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Angelica Neyra Artist’s statement: Influenced by my Hispanic upbringing, this work reveals the...
Read MoreLetter to girlfriend’s mother(s)
Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Poetry
By Anusree Raveendran This poem deals with the relationship of two girls and how they confront...
Read MoreCorpus
Dec 9, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Poetry
By Sarah O’Connor what does this body want? this more-than-machine of earth and electricity I have...
Read MoreComing Out West
Dec 8, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Bret Anne Serbin Montana is a private state. Here we value our autonomy, cherish our right to live undisturbed, and spurn attempts to reign us in. I fit in because I’m a private person. I never coddled up to the crush of...
Read MoreBlind Pursuit
Dec 8, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Christina Geoghegan Artist statement: Nightscape. A portrait is revealed in the light from the...
Read MoreScales Of a Dragon
Dec 8, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Poetry
By Amelia Díaz Ettinger when I was four, I knew how to say no but not when to scream it in an...
Read MoreHere, in South Africa
Dec 8, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Poetry
By Kirsten Deane Here, in South Africa I have seen a few women who are capable of growing hair on their chins. This only seems unusual when there is a man beside them. Here, in South Africa we are told that men will...
Read MoreSixth Sense
Dec 8, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Kirsten Deane A week before my period my knees ache. My knees are made of a body of just bones. They complain until they reach the skin and then shiver. This is when I know something’s coming my way. My knees could be my...
Read Morewhose hand ?
Dec 8, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By téníòlá funmi téníòlá funmi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY, USA. On a...
Read MoreLittle Free Bodies
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Jen Bonardi As a server in a small restaurant in my seaside town, I know to keep quiet about my...
Read MorePantone 258
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Dr. Midori Samson My electroacoustic compositions use found soundscapes and electronic...
Read MoreOur Blood is on Your Hands
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Jodelle Marx Jodelle Marx (she/her) is a visual artist and spoken word poet from Oregon, USA....
Read MoreWe Are Not Incubators: Forced Birth & Compounded Violence
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Frances-Ann Egan The circumstances that surround abortion issues range from concerns about sexual violence, to dangerous pregnancies, to forced birth under no extraordinary circumstance other than the injustice of being...
Read MoreMissing You
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By samos Artist statement: The original painting is an acrylic on canvas board. I’ve always...
Read MoreFrat Guys Love that I’m Bi Until I Hit on One of Their Brothers
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Emily Carriere Author’s note: this article mentions sexual assault. I can’t tell you how many...
Read MoreThe S is Not Silent
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism, Poetry
By Cassia Buonadonna is a 20-year-old student and activist passionate about the cross-over between...
Read MoreHam-Handed
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Oakley Ayden We called the nurse Ham Hands after she’d left the room. Moments before, one of those hands was pinning my pregnant body to the hospital bed with hammer-like heft while the other rammed through labia folds...
Read MoreLETTERS
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
“You and this publication and all the related work found me when I was lost, and it is still helping lost folks find their way home—no matter what “bi” ways they travel. A donation to support this crucial work is enclosed.”...
Read MoreHairy Mammal
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Meow Kapow Artist Statement: I designed this cross stitch pattern to express my frustration...
Read MoreViva, la sangre
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Karla Wirth Artist statement: Drawing inspiration from my upbringing in Mexico City, Mexico, I...
Read MoreDistracted and Confused NO MORE: Bisexual Liberation
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Anna Kochetkova With the repeal of Roe v. Wade across the seas, here in Australia as a white...
Read MoreRESEARCH CORNER: Violence Against (Bi+) Women
By Josephine Raye Kelly What does bodily autonomy mean in a country where three women a day are killed by an intimate partner and over half of women have experienced sexual violence? These numbers get significantly higher when...
Read MorePrivacy Violation
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Daniela Guerrero Artist statement: The moment when the news about Roe vs Wade arrived—even here...
Read MoreOur Bodies Ourselves is Back as a Website!
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Laurie Rosenblum Do you remember the health and sexuality book for women and girls, Our Bodies,...
Read MoreThe Out 100 Recognizes Bicon Fiona Dawson!
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
Fiona Dawson, an Emmy-nominated and award-winning filmmaker as well as a proud bisexual,...
Read MoreBi+ Activists Meet with White House During Bi+ Visibility Week
Dec 5, 2022 | 2023 Winter - Bodily Autonomy, Privacy, & Feminism
By Ellyn Ruthstrom For the first time since the Obama Administration, bi+ activists from across...
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