Angelina Pacholczak

A Queer Feminist Ethics of Eros

A Chapbook of Feminist Poems

The following works inspired this chapbook of poems: Transforming Carceral Logics: 10 reasons to Dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex Through Queer/Trans Analysis and Action by S. Lamble, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action by Audre Lorde, Are the Lips a Grave? by Lynne Huffer, Educating a Women: A Feminist Agenda by bell hooks, and Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza (“Towards a New Consciousness“) by Gloria Anzaldúa.

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March 20, 2023 0

Laura-Marie River Victor Peace Nopales

what a diagnosis is

a way to justify a pill prescription,

a dull tool,

one doctor’s opinion,

an idea we can ponder

in the isolation room,

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June 13, 2022 0

J.D. Harlock

The Woman Who Wasn’t There

In a moment of despair,

I killed the man I could not scare

I killed the man I could not bear

I killed the man who wasn’t there

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April 18, 2022 1

Anna Quon

Sometimes Darkness Grips Me

Sometimes darkness grips me

By the hair and flings me into

Itself, like a stone

Or eats me alive

Like a prehistoric fish

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February 21, 2022 0

Palaces P.

Journey of Self-Discovery

by Palaces P.

I see those articles called, “Alternatives to Self-Harm,” and I think, there is no alternative

to self-harm.

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December 20, 2021 0

Jamie Quinn Mader

Alice

In a dark a whisper came, “I’m not well”
The last words she spoke before she fell
Swirling shades of black, unseen by all.
If she could speak again she’d call it a tumble not a fall.

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January 18, 2021 0

Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue

The Secret in Her Eyes

Her eyes look a long while at mine

Tension building

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November 16, 2020 0

Aaron Summer Javadi

“Amongst the Wildflowers”

I grew up amongst the wildflowers,
Where honeysuckle nights,
Blew the colored winds,
Through the fan-fared window.

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July 20, 2020 0

Jillian Hanesworth

Take Care

I know you feel like ain’t nobody there

I know that you’re a good person and life just ain’t fair

Know you’re surrounded by people and you still feel alone

I know they’re looking at you crazy and you’re too afraid to share

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June 15, 2020 0

Jane Barnes

LOOKING FOR ROCHESTER

I’m writing this essay on a glorious day in July—Independence Day, actually—and I’m here to discuss looking for my own independence, which is not to say, loneliness or even solitude which I gratefully have and enjoy. Guests come and go, are marvelous company while they’re here, but it’s hard to deny that having the space again to balloon up your own ego, and things such as the nail on which to hold your own red potholders, is nice. Continue reading “Jane Barnes” →

May 18, 2020 0