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Reflections Off Every SurfaceBy Alex Carrigan  As we all begin to hunker down in our homes for the foreseeable future, renewing our streaming services, playing the new Animal Crossing game, and managing the difficulties of telecommuting (if we still have a job that lets us do this), it's become increasingly clear that this is a time for self-reflection. It's a time where we all think about how easily our routines have been disrupted, how much we've wanted to do with our lives, what we're missing out on and what we lose in this pandemic. While some of us may simply be looking for projects and activities to kill the time between waking up and going to sleep, it's important to see what realizations about ourselves and our lives come about in this time.
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Self-Love and Resistance Through Dance MovesBy Ghia Vitale  Self Worship is a short film that features Che Che Luna, a queer, Mexican American dancer/artist who embraces body confidence and sexual freedom. In this film, they use dance to reclaim their body after experiencing sexual trauma during their childhood. It’s the ultimate testament to their personal journey towards self-love and self-empowerment.
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Old MaidsBy Nancy Wick  As a kid in the 1950s, I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but there was one thing I didn’t want to be: an old maid. In the small, blue-collar town where I lived, being a woman who didn’t get married meant that people saw you as pathetic, suspicious even. After all, there must be something wrong with you if no man had claimed you. You were unwanted, a shriveled-up old prude.
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I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl (And Never Will Be)By Danielle Arze  Many men have romanticized me as being the manic pixie dream girl they’ve been waiting for their whole lives. I call it Scott Pilgrim Syndrome. I don’t care what most people think, I love adventure, and I stubbornly continue to express myself through my clothes and hair choices even into adulthood. Sprinkle in a few odd interests and this recipe adds up to a person who struggles to date.
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Milanese Disease
By Alex Carrigan
It’s easy to dismiss punk as dirty and rebellious for the sake of rebelliousness, but there’s a real glamour and craft to the look and the lifestyle that’s easy to miss if one ignores the work behind it. At the same time, glamour, while more socially-acceptable, is able to hide its underlying murkiness with clean hems and crisp, neutral tones, presenting an image that can be meticulous, but also just as frustrated and restricted as those punks it scoffs at. Marrying punk and glamour is the sort of thing that can expose a real severity and beauty of humanity that can expose just how wide a person’s emotional spectrum can be.
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Combining Reality and Fantasy for Advocacy
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Susann Cokal is an award-winning novelist of both adult and young adult fiction and the editor of Broad Street Magazine. Her latest novel, Mermaid Moon (Candlewick Press), was released on March 3rd, 2020. Like many others publishing books this year, Cokal has had to give up on appearing at and hosting events to promote the release of her latest novel. Her novel in circulation, Influence, focuses on Spanish Influenza, a pandemic often forgotten, but has reemerged with resurrected interest among epidemiologists and the general public.
We talked with Cokal about using fact and fantasy to advocate for women's agency, what it means to chase a "healthy" life, and subverting expectation in the idea of "happily ever after". The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Living Like a Refugee in the Age of Coronavirus By Leah Mueller  Americans are notoriously stupid, especially when it comes to health care.
When I’m feeling charitable, I chalk it up to the US being such a young country. A mere adolescent, puffing up our chest to look tough. We’re younger than the European countries, and less sophisticated. So we’ll need at least two hundred more years to catch up. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Don't Overlook Latina Women During International Women's MonthBy Danielle Arze  Femicide is defined as the killing of a girl or woman, particularly by a man, because of her gender. This month millions of Mexican women stayed home, not going to work or school in a protest named ‘A Day Without Us’. It is estimated that 10 women are killed each day in Mexico, with the police investigating over 700 cases of femicide. For years, women in many Central American countries have been talking about the unequal treatment they receive and the deadly consequences. In 2014, 531 Honduran women were killed during the year.
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Defining "Home" While Staying at Home
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Releasing a novel is something special, especially if it is your first. While Lee Matalone was able to have some events before quarantine took place, many of her future plans for promoting her book HOME MAKING (published by Harper Collins' imprint Harper Perennial) had to be cancelled.
Even so, a quarantine can't cancel art forever. We talk shop about how biracial identity and definitions of "home" shaped Matalone's debut novel, the bizarre world of a pandemic, and some good book recommendations. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Born to Be Public in a Pandemic
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Greg Mania's life was destined to be public. So much so, CLASH Books is publishing his memoir Born to Be Public, a hilarious book about coming out and coming up in the world, this August.
But how can writers and artists stay public during a pandemic? We don't have all of the answers, but Mania may have the antidote. |
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