When I look through “Girls of Isolation,” I see the kind of ennui and subtle restlessness that settles in the bones, carries itself in the eyes, waits for you and gets into your hair. It is the heavy kind that wraps itself around your shoulders, allowing you to do nothing else but surrender to its cause.
Read MoreHistorically, the terror of beauty has been released inside of the psyches of women––to be legible as a woman is to be beautiful. We have learned to develop a legibility, a legitimacy, and a twisted agency predicated on the specific labor necessary to create and sustain beauty in the heightened scroll-chaos of Instagram and Twitter.
Read MoreHer choosing me – a modern magical practitioner – left me with adrenalin rising in my chest. All in good fun. A gruesome history lesson, right? For most, yes, I can see that – one relic of our brutal British past, something we should remember with horror. But for me it brought the cruelty home in a previously unexplored way.
Read More“Whether making themselves purposefully ugly or embracing their sexuality on their own terms, whether layering themselves in baggy clothing or wearing miniskirts and fishnets, whether blacking out their eyes with smudges of kohl eyeliner or putting paper bags over their heads, these women said my body is mine and I will present it however I choose.”
Read More“anything that denies a person with a bleeding cunt is demonstrative of patriarchy.”
Read More“Raised by a mother who believed imagination was sinful, Mina was constantly punished and derided for her creative spirit…. And yet, her poetry breathes with transformative vitality. She dares to imagine a world where women exist wholly as themselves, their value disconnected from the preferences of men.”
Read MoreCindy Franco takes us through the evolution of Beyoncé in this analysis of Lemonade.
Read MoreCreative Non-Fiction by Tianna G. Hansen
Read Morepoetry by Ingrid M. Collins
Read MorePhotographer and owner of Flash Zine, Shanté Carlan, explores her relationship to her subjects and their bodies as a photographer, and photographer’s responsibility in storytelling.
Read Morepoetry by Rhamonda Monae
Read More"The people who are in power know this and they are holding on for dear life because they know they will fall the hardest. They too are part of humanity just like each of us. We all take a part in the collective conscious."
Read More"If only we could all maintain a child’s perspective when it came to certain things in life."
Read More"Establishing a healthy, authentic self-identity is one of the most challenging tasks I believe someone faces in this lifetime because it requires a willingness to break free of labels and definitions that we, not just others, place upon ourselves."
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