Category: 2010 Summer – Bodies
From your Editor: Bodies
Aug 1, 2010 | 2010 Summer - Bodies, Editor's Note
Dear Reader, For this issue, you were invited to talk about your bodies: Body image. Gendered...
Read MoreDo Clothes Make the Woman?
Aug 1, 2010 | 2010 Summer - Bodies
By Marcia Deihl Years before I came out, I dressed as a Marlene Dietrich sort of dyke for...
Read MoreRestless
Aug 1, 2010 | 2010 Summer - Bodies
By Lara Zielinsky The hour rolled over. 3:59. 4:00. Four a.m. Cassidy’s eyes slowly rotated away from the digital clock’s red numbers, taking in the deep shadows of the rest of the room as she lay on her back. The desk lay...
Read MoreBis Around the World: Shiri Eisner, Israel
Aug 1, 2010 | 2010 Summer - Bodies, Around the World, Articles
Interview by Robyn Ochs Robyn Ochs: Shiri, please tell us about yourself. Shiri Eisner: I am a...
Read MoreMy Size
Aug 1, 2010 | 2010 Summer - Bodies, Articles, Poetry
By Cari Allen Forty-one, thirty-five, forty-five. And fourteen. Those are my numbers.My measurements and my clothing size.They all add up to make me, me.This is not oversized, plus size, queen size, right size, or wrong...
Read MoreFish Nets
Aug 1, 2010 | 2010 Summer - Bodies, Articles
By Monica Meneghetti I unlace Rita’s twenty-eyelet boots. Carpet fibres embed themselves in my...
Read MoreAbout Joni Moore
Aug 1, 2010 | 2010 Summer - Bodies, Articles
“Finite” These photographs are part of “Smoke and Mirrors,” a collection of artwork by...
Read MoreFourteen Months
Aug 1, 2010 | 2010 Summer - Bodies, Poetry
By Casey Lyons 12/17/2009 Fourteen Months and still you chase me in circles.The violence you brought forthreverberates like a notemy inner ear keeps hearing. Fourteen months,and still you disrupt my sleep.You hang around...
Read MoreREVIEW: Frost Moon, Book One: The Skindancer series, by Anthony Francis
Aug 1, 2010 | 2010 Summer - Bodies, Articles, Reviews
(Bell Bridge Books, 2010) Reviewed by Lara Zielinsky Dakota Frost is the Southeast’s most famous...
Read MoreMy Bodies
Aug 1, 2010 | 2010 Summer - Bodies, Articles
By Rooster Girl As a fluid/bi trans person, I obsess about my bodies and their varied desires. My bodies. Are they flesh or are they spirit or are they both? What do they desire and how? Trying to figure out my body in isolation...
Read MoreWar and Curls
Aug 1, 2010 | 2010 Summer - Bodies, Poetry
By Lividia I. Violette It was made of naps that I couldn’t appreciateTangles and split ends.Things...
Read MoreREVIEW: Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
Aug 1, 2010 | 2010 Summer - Bodies, Articles, Reviews
(Bantam Spectra, 2009) Reviewed by Debbie Block-Schwenk “From every terrace and corner grin...
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