* * * A Thing with Feathers Your little soft body the color of midday sun unfurled like a blossom in a storm, broke out from a shell once a…
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The Birds: Bird Burden
by Guest Contributor June 14, 2021A crow has been calling in the front yard since the sun rose. It’s the beginning of November and my left breast feels heavy. I lift it and the pressure…
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The Animal Form
by Guest Contributor January 22, 2021In my kids’ yoga classroom on the Lower East Side, two hundred elementary school girls still in their uniforms take the shape of a cow. Knees under hips, hands under…
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And My Daughters Shall Prophesy (In Six Inch Stripper Stilettos)
by Guest Contributor January 4, 2021Image Credit: Samantha Steiner I awoke on my baptism day to an impending panic attack. It crept in slowly, settled into the pit of my stomach and sent shockwaves…
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WOVEN: A Brief History of Thighs
by Guest Contributor December 30, 2020WOVEN 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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Closing the Loop: Becoming Aware of the Body Again Under Quarantine
by Guest Contributor December 15, 2020Image Credit: CB Wilson CB When did I first become aware I have a body? In the podcast “Living in this Queer Body,” host Asher Pandjiris begins each interview…
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The Birds: a poem
by Guest Contributor August 14, 2020* * * I wonder if birds’ throats get sore Let me try that again. I wonder if birds ever get tired of calling into the nothing; of being high…
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Literacy Narrative: The Body (Electric)
by Guest Contributor May 14, 2020Image Credit: Eliza Moore 1 I imagine Walt Whitman’s body Walt Whitman, an. American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, Disorderly fleshy and sensual, eating and drinking…
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WOVEN: The Taking
by Guest Contributor April 22, 2020WOVEN 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 Feeling Nothing: The Meaning of Human Anatomy Lab
by Guest Contributor March 20, 2020Image Credit: Charles Landseer We were told a lot about a medical student’s first time in the anatomy lab. We were told that our donors, which is what we…
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WOVEN: The Flesh
by Guest Contributor February 5, 2020WOVEN 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 Art of Subtraction
by Guest Contributor January 3, 2020“I don’t care—just make it even,” I said to my mom. She turned the clippers on. As the first tufts fell onto the towel draped over my shoulders, I did…
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Auto Body
by Guest Contributor October 29, 2019Parents Who Work, a System That Doesn’t Giancarlo, the smog guy, always struck me as remarkably good-natured for someone who worked in a fume-filled shoebox all day. When I’d…
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A History of My Body
by Guest Contributor September 10, 2019The last time I belonged there, I straddled the steam hissing off the asphalt with my right foot on the curb at Charlotte Douglas International and my left on the rubber mat…