The Sunday of Valentine’s wake I wake up a-flutter. My ride or die wife by my side. She snores as AHS: Hotel screams from the TV at the foot of…
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I had one great love now gone. Who I thought would forever haunt me. This intensity of my love for Jasper waxes almost to eclipse her. Allows me compartmentalize. Block…
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RACHEL D. L. is a queer, disabled writer and artist. She writes about disability for the Rooted in Rights blog and has published poetry and nonfiction in Anomaly, Colorado Review, and Our Lives…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFilmThe Creature Walks Among Us: The Shape of Water, Invisible Disability and Desire
To get to the theater where The Shape of Water is playing I have to take a subway to a mall. Once inside the mall, I have to find…
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I bake Tiramisu Cupcakes for the housewarming of my new home in Reno, Nevada. Realize there’s an essay under the frosting when I spy the red welt between my breasts.…
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As the debate on trigger warnings in the academy rages across the internet, I wondered how it is finding form in literary and artistic spaces—so I invited six writers/artists and…