Featured Image Credit: Wafa Shami via Palestine in a Dish Sometimes you fall for the narrative. You fall so hard that the narrator, the conduit through whom the story…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Image Credit: Esi Grunhagen via Pixabay Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. Susan Sontag He slumps in the maroon armchair, nearly supine, staring at the window. Outside,…
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Dr. Blond Bombshell, my reproductive specialist, was an intimidating beauty. Blonde highlights streaked through her soft brown wavy hair. Her makeup was flawless down to the shimmering pale blue eyeshadow…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Everything within me died as my relationship ended. I was afraid I would not be able to leave him. I was afraid I had no value as a person, as…
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A pair of ravens rattles in a cage near the Polar Bear exhibit at the Maryland Zoo. You admire the sheen of their feathers, the sleekness of their preening. Visitors…
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You’re sorry to hear that Dan’s bird Glen died last week. Lately you’ve been wondering about bird life spans. Your friend mentioned something called “blue zones” over dinner, how humans…
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I was 17 when I first heard Liz Phair in the backseat of a boy’s car with my much cooler best friend. We were aimlessly driving around when the boy…
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We save lives. Writing comes from a more mysterious place than any of us have words to describe. The ability to craft words that land across space and time into…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Image Credit: God’s Acre at Old Salem, Winston-Salem, NC by Brandy Reeves I left my job more than three years ago. It was not a particularly good job, but…
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Image Credit: rainbow mural by liturgical artist Diane Brandt 1. It had been only two months since Brother Oakley had told me I was cursed, and I was…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeaturedCitizen Privilege, Microaggressions, and Living Outside the National Belonging Huddle
When You Don’t Fit the Eligibility Criteria But Fit the Profile “How can you shop at Walmart?” His brown eyes grow rounder as he ends his question. His body,…