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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Tell me we’ll never get used to it. Richard Siken, 2005 The boy didn’t know what to do with sounds that entered his head and became something else. His…
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Image Credit: Dev Murphy My mother called me last week to tell me she had dreamed of her sister Christy’s trip to the hospital before it happened. Minor illness.…
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ArtCreative Nonfiction / EssayCultureHo & Niemetz: Women of a Modern Artistic Era, or, How Two Women Brought Technology into their Crafts
Jocelyn Ho Jocelyn Ho met me at a coffee shop in the Pico-Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles. She ordered herself a cookie and a tea, then sat down across from…
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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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On April 17th, 2017, the day after Easter, my friend took their father’s gun and went for a walk on the beach in Yachats, Oregon. Friend isn’t the right word.…
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In 1991, after my freshman year of college at the University of Arizona in Tucson at age 19, I went to live on my own in my older sister’s apartment…
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A third eye for sensing danger has planted itself at the base of my skull. It sends out a dull throb when the possibility of bodily harm is perceived. It’s…
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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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The first car Daddy got me was on cinder blocks. It didn’t run. And I don’t remember asking him for it. I was a freshman in college at Wayne State…
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Image Credit: Mural drawn onto the side of the bus shelter at 46th Avenue & Taraval in San Francisco, CA I tried to behave. Then there was the night I…
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Image Credit: Albert Anker It was the rhythms of words that I loved most as a child. Undeniably delighted at the prospect of having someone else read to me,…
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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: “Better than We Ever Did” by Elizabeth Walker 2 weeks The doctor calls with the news. In the lab: the embryologist partners fifteen retrieved eggs and a thawed…