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: Jesse Shofner Last winter, your father asked if “queer” was still a slur. He asked this carefully, as he always does when it comes to your sexuality.…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Latin For Across: On OCD and the Imperative to Know Thyself
by Guest Contributor April 14, 2020TW: Discussion of OCD related to gender and sexuality, intrusive thoughts My earliest memory is of a mental image that won’t go away. A girl in a white pinafore…
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Creative Nonfiction / EssayFeatured
WOVEN: Oceanic Poetics: A Mother Study in Waves
by Guest Contributor October 16, 2019WOVEN 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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ArtComicsFeatured
THE NEW COMICS: “In Your Car” by Andrés Hernández
by Guest Contributor October 3, 2019ANDRÉS HERNÁNDEZ is a queer Mexican artist and writer currently living in Tijuana. Paired with raw sexual imagery, their writing and art address attachment and impermanence. Their…
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The 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…
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That first menstruation was a shock. Bleary eyed, I woke up in the middle of the night and saw the blood, spotty and sticky and dark—yet undoubtedly from my own…
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Desire and Power in High School Giddy Aphrodite races for candy, followed by her big sister Athena, solemn in her gray helmet and shield, bearing a homemade spear bound…
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The year we move for the second time, my father’s study and my sleeping quarters share a room. My father wants to be close to his church and my mother…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Fathers Could Take Their Sons to Biltmore
by Guest Contributor June 15, 2019When I was a boy, my dad always said not to be like him. People would say, “You look just like your Daddy,” which I heard so often he sometimes…
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“EVERYDAY” ANDRÉS HERNÁNDEZ is a Translation and Interpretation student at the Autonomous University of Baja California. His work has appeared in ENTROPY, Impossible Archetype, Boston Accent, and several other…
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1. I have only one photograph of Alex left: standing behind the cash register of Sunflower Pool. His brother Tom is there, too. I’m in the chemical section. I…
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
Not the Greatest Love Story Ever Told
by Guest Contributor January 31, 2019In second grade, I joined the Girl Scouts, “where girls grow strong.” In high school, long after almost everyone I knew had abandoned the group as a nerdy club, I…
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Someone had written excision on the calendar. I kept glancing at it, wondering how it got there. I thought about asking Fatouma, but she was working diligently at her desk.…