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“Other. Please Explain.” by A Universal Friend
My gender is peculiar. My gender is the delicious moment of hesitation before the cashier decides to use “sir” or “ma’am”. My gender is...
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Aug 22, 202310 min read
Notes from the Field (An Archeology of Gender), by Jaclyn Foster
Whenever Chris Pine comes up in conversation, I can barely breathe. Breathlessly, I talk, and talk, and talk about him to people, as if...
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Feb 23, 20231 min read
our queer love on a Tuesday, by Lavvynder Rose
104 today rest my eyes on a mid-century wine glass. yours fall elsewhere, oven safe-pumpkin orange-dishware the green reminds me of you...
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Feb 9, 20231 min read
Stranger in the Land, by Ronald M Raynes
He came to me late in the night, Like in a dream, somehow disconnected, I could see his face, the image hovering. There is time between...
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Feb 8, 20231 min read
To Hear Your Voice, by Ronald M Raynes
All I wanted was to hear your voice, That mild sound of clear water rippling Almost silently amid rounded stones. You washed away the...
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Jan 27, 20231 min read
I’ve been sitting on this line for five years wishing it was never true, by Lexy Roberts
I can hear the commas in your voice now. Your pausing before you speak As if you're now a writer Measuring stanzas couplets Probably...
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Jan 27, 20232 min read
Abandoned, by KS
1. My mind thinks of you often, and I wish that it wouldn’t. I began sharing my feelings, but you said you couldn’t. You were my friend...
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Sep 14, 20221 min read
Longing, by Alma Frances Pellet
The longing to hold the child that I bore and fed at my breast and watched grow into her own young woman who finds the joy in the woman...
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Aug 31, 20221 min read
Your Sorrow is Not Your Own, by Angela Harger
What can you do when your bone-deep sorrow is turned against you by the very ones who covenanted to mourn with those who mourn? When they...
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Aug 11, 20225 min read
On Deciding to Stay Lost, by Jaclyn Foster
Zoë stumbled out into the living room, weeping softly. “What’s the matter, sweetie?” I asked, trying to conceal my alarm. “No, they’re...
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Jul 19, 20223 min read
The Answer to a Question Not Asked, by Alma Frances Pellet
Alma (formerly Frank) is a transgender woman, living the dream of being a stay-at-home-mom while also managing full time work trying to...
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Jun 7, 20222 min read
Free, by Zoë
i. cover up. you shouldn’t show your knees, your shoulders, or your chest. otherwise, you run the risk of making men uncomfortable. and...
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Jun 7, 20221 min read
The Shadow, Anon
The shadow follows me everywhere in the form of a black cat. Lonely and desperate. Longing for attention. Sad and miserable. Soulless....
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Mar 28, 20221 min read
Rainbow Parade, by Sierra Larson
Let your light so shine A light on the hill Lit up in rainbow colors For the world to see All my life I was told it’s a sin To indulge...
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Mar 7, 20227 min read
Easy Conversations, by Jaclyn Foster
[For the prequel, see this post] Utah, 2018 It was one of our last weeks in married housing south of BYU campus before moving to the...
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Jan 18, 20222 min read
"house // home," by anonymous
you’re homesick for a place that doesn’t exist— they call this hiraeth, a word which sounds all too pleasant for what it means— for what...
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Jan 18, 20221 min read
Not All Blood is Sacred, by A. Lux
It is 2 pm and my mind is loud I know only one way to silence it. I tear my skin apart, This skin that fits too tight I run the blade...
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Sep 13, 20213 min read
Fish, Anon
this is where everyone comes to meet their bird of paradise, the posters say in fine printed blood. you tremble. this is where everyone...
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Sep 2, 20211 min read
In Remembrance of His Body, Anon
If the church is the body of Christ, Then I am a sliver that the body slowly expelled. I think slivers want to stay in the body. Little...
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Aug 31, 20212 min read
Five Poems, The Wrong Order by Ari Glass
Poem Number 1: The Wrong Order They messed up my order, I'm not a girl. I must have someone else's body. The fit is all wrong, too tight...
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