~Tamara Rettino “A lot can happen to a person in a night. In the age of the social network, it can even happen when you’re sleeping. While you’re rosy cheeked and dreaming about Ryan Gosling rescuing you from a flash flood (you do have that dream, right?), a torrential dialogue can play itself out in [...]

~Jenunine. I see a teenage boy sitting across from me mind and soul trapped in a broken body; multiple strokes have left him a prisoner using art and technology we communicate silently sometimes I wonder if I had never asked this question, would he have ever shared his thoughts would there be someone to listen– [...]

~T. R. I hurried into a religious bookstore one day anxious to pick up a book previously ordered.  Old-time church hymns played on overhead speakers.  As I waited in line a nearby magazine caught my eye, the caption reading, “Woman of the Year.” My eyes traveling upwards saw a blond woman with long softly curled [...]

–Lindsey Marcus @ I Run in Heels A year ago, my brother Seth and Ali, his girlfriend of 2 years, visited my parents in Oklahoma. While Ali appreciated the family-centric culture of our hometown, she commented on the emphasis on getting married young. Girls remarked she had the “patience of Job” at not receiving a [...]

~Jenuine I parked behind a flashy car out of which a woman stepped I noticed her license plate around which these words proclaimed: I’M BAD…because the men like it and I thought about all the decades and all the centuries throughout all of history during which womyn have been taught to bend and to twist [...]