Lucas Yao What comes after I’m proud of you You’ve always been so scared. The first thing you told me was that you were scared. You told me about a transgender woman who lived in your apartment when you were…
Porter Pfrenger untitled The songbird thrashes, its wings ablaze, Its throat choked tight with stolen praise. Each silent note is a sharpened scream, Cutting through bars that shatter the dream. Its eyes burn bright, two molten coals, A furnace…
Robin Gow Affairs in Order We are dying. We are dying and I don’t know why no one is saying that. We are dying like pigeons. We are dying like freight trains that kept running, wild off the side of…
Koi Miyoshi To Whom It May Concern Forget the name-change, the pronouns, the presentation. Abandon my corrections, my efforts, past conversations. Allow the discomfort. Breed the resentment. Let’s undo the clock. I am female at birth. Foreign until death. Figuring…
Caitie Young CANDACE CAMERON BURE ASKS IF SHE IS THE VILLAIN, AND COMES OUT AS A CONSERVATIVE, TIK TOK RAGES cw/tw: mention of r*pe, sexual violence a man who was president once does nothing when a million are…
SB Young Untitled (Tallies) Crawling through a sea of shattered glass on my hands and knees looking for intact crystals; finding intact crystals and putting another tally towards “survivors”; using the complete tally to count the loss. …
kasey harrison Where Have We Gone? Is There Anybody Out There? It’s the isolation that kills the fibers of our beings stretch, grasping for connection finding only themselves an intertwining is demanded as we are choked out of each other…
anonymous MAKE MYSELF CIS AGAIN I HAVE CONCEPTS OF A PLAN –I’M NOT CISGENDER RIGHT NOW. WHEN I’M ELECTED I’LL HOLD MY PARTS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS. THIS GENDER DYSPHORIA NEVER WOULD’VE HAPPENED IF I’D BEEN…
Anastasia Walker AMABFU
Cole Weiss Phoenix I missed sunset. I keep missing it. I keep getting in bed at three, The blinds have been closed for days. I think It’s eight or nine when I stumble into the bathroom Grip the sink with…