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against a sunset background, a sillhouetted father holds the hand of a kid. The father's figure is deleted, replaced with the photoshop blank background pattern

I’ll Never Walk Away: Writing About Motherhood From Imperfect Circumstances

a charcoal life drawing of a pair of human legs, the torso is just out of frame. behind the legs is a blackened expanse of charcoal. the drawing is dark and moody

How Art Modeling Carried Me Through an Abusive Relationship

a pair of painterly pale legs rest against an amethyst colored background with a suburban town behind them. Execerpted text from Drew's dream journal is layered in different colors in the background. The excerpt is "March 14, 2020 I’m in my high school auditorium. It’s dark and late at night and I’m really scared. I get a call from someone and it’s really unsettling like a phone call in a slasher movie. Then I realize the person on the phone might be behind the curtain. Part of me knows they probably aren’t and I feel crazy for being scared but I am so scared."

Is There Life After High School?

a painted bear touches a cowering, or sleeping, line drawing of a woman lying on her side. The background is blood red streaked with black. Underneath the woman run reports of mass shootings and deaths, in text that is collaged and barely visible. The entire effect is extremely ominous.

It Could Be Anything

A collage with a blue, painted background. In the center is a figure of a white femme dressed in a flowing white nightgown, leaning back, looking up. Around them swirl collaged elements including greenery and an eye, and significantly, a pocket watch.

Between Orbits: Two Manipulators, Pulled Out of Abuse and Back

$A collage artwork featuring a central woman seen from the back wearing a vibrantly patterned dress with Tiger motifs and with her long hair braided with pink fabric. Her skin is a medium beige. Behind her are several swatches of fabric in various colors, each with percentages and fractions pointing at them such as 1/16.$

I Was Supposed To Be Good At Math

This is a collage work of art. The base is a shiny, golden background of slightly crumpled looking paper. On top is a collage of flowers and green growing plants. From these plants emerge the figures of three Black women. One is in black and white and is wearing a white, fluffy cotillion gown, another has braided hair and is looking away and is in color, a third is smaller, and is glancing downward contemplatively. Written in the background are the words: "she runs her gender, not the other way around" with an eye underneath those words

By Fighting Gender Expectations, My Mother Made Room for Me to Be Myself

A graphic image of two women's arms holding hands against an ocean-like backdrop

The Happiest Place On Earth

A woman in a pink wig, leaning forward against a black background with a pink graphic element winding through

Lying’s the Most Fun a Girl Can Have

a very small Rachel, with blonde hair, is seen standing in front of an adult man who is wearing slacks, a white shirt and a tie. you cannot see the man's face due to the cut of the photo

This Never Happened

For My Own Pleasure: Hiring a Sex Worker as a Queer Woman

A Guide To Falling In Love For Hopeless Fools Who Can’t Read Maps

Things Men Tell You When They Think You’re One of Them

The Absolute Worst Thing A Boy Could Ever Be

Say My Name, Mey’s My Name Pt. II: Independent (Legally a) Woman

YES CATS! Exclusive: The Incredibly True Adventures of the Backyard Bobbis

Going Home To My Ghosts: A Photoessay

Gal Pal Chronicles: Rachel and Lizz Have Been Obsessed With Each Other Since Roughly 2008

Goodbye, California

Screaming/Not Screaming

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