By Jemima Waddell I hope to show through these photos the contrast between what is stereotypically associated with being a girl or woman and the more unique and expressive reality of what being a woman is. I wanted to represent, as best I could, how women subvert tradition and embrace …
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by Amber Hammad Image Appropriated After Title: Olympia Artist: Edouard Manet Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: H: 130.5 cm x W: 190 cm Year: 1863 Title Appropriated After Title: The Brown Sahib Author: Varindra Tarzie Vittachi Year: 1962 Image Appropriated After Title: Hendrickje Bathing in a River Artist: Rembrandt …
Read More »Experiments in Human Survival, by Hamish Duncan
Experiments in Human Survival by Hamish Duncan They’re on the curve of the dune. Slate yellow against deep, dark blue. Shoes off, socks flung down the crest, warmth oozing between their toes. It’s become about the little things again. Footprints — their own and another set — approaching their …
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BARREN by Axel-Nathaniel Rose “What do you mean?” Rachel was tucked into the corner of the couch, legs pulled to her chest, arms wrapped tightly around her knees. “I mean…” She bit her lower lip, gnawed on it. “I mean I don’t want to make a new baby. A new …
Read More »Variegated, by Madeleine Ackerman
Variegated by Madeleine Ackerman My love for you is green, I’m told: is freshly cut, or unseasoned— is yet to bloom; not yet quite ripe. Is not blue: livid with effort— unbruised by blows, or holding breath; is yet to wring the sky like Zeus. Is not red: of rage, …
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Prose Swansong By Emily Olorin I perch, trusting eyes locked with your own. I am achingly breathless in the blue that drowns me; I Ophelia, the curve of a lily at the bottom of a lake. A dove staring docile on the branches of a tree, giving its trust …
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