Cedrus Dreux Can You Wish Upon These Stars? (Based on The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key) Oh how do you feel, by the harsh light of day, Do you long for your pride from the shadows of childhood? All…
mk zariel am i gay? asks a buzzfeed quiz, but sometimes the more accurate question is whether i could pass a turing test after cramming and thus starting to feel less alive. can statistics have genders? asks the inner voice…
Bailey Rodfield What Does A Bird Hater Do? Maybe that caged bird Maya Angelou wrote of, Maybe there’s another cage, another bird A whole aviary of cages, chained up By dirty words, spat from the bowels of hatred Itself. There’s…
Risha Nicole End Times
August Crowley untitled The morning I found out Was the same week I was to celebrate A whole year on testosterone Only to be filled with doubt Who will decide my fate? If only I would have known Maybe…
nat raum election day A love letter to American zillennials before we were old enough to strap on our most comfortable shoes and stand in line at the polls, we were old enough to cut george bush’s face out …
Heather Flescher The Other Shoe I honestly thought we had won. In March 2016, the North Carolina legislature passed a bill banning transgender people from public bathrooms. The reaction was immediate. And angry. College sports teams, corporations, musicians, conventions and…
Emilee Wigglesworth Nightmares The birds and the bees and the invisible woman the nectar so sweet, the musings saccharine, but my baby’s shoulders slumped in the kitchen, and I am crying but there are no words, she is taking my…
Sebastian Anderson untitled there will be no diamonds. not in this rough where my fingers have calluses and these cracked nails hold hot coals in the silence of the wood. where we stumble in our quiet with the golden glimmer…
Shaawan Francis Keahna Stealth On the phone with a trans elder. Maybe she’d hate being called that. She is, though, old and monied and cynical. They’d call her a “battle-axe” back home. Tough broad. California accent. She works in Hollywood,…