Tiny Births; On Honoring Stories of a Body by Noelle Marie Falcis
My losing was a long drawn breath; nothing like what the websites, the forums, the doctor had led me to believe.
Issue 17: The Cost of Waiting is now open for submissions
The call will close Dec. 31, 2023. Late capitalist time — and its war machine — surges forward relentlessly, not allowing us to remember what we already know, not giving us space to practice care over consumption. But “the act of remaking the world is intimate, daily.”* And it’s one that can only be done communally. So in this moment of civil collapse, as we vacillate between rest and resistance, we return to the questions that build and thunder inside us. Since 2015, we’ve asked 114 questions across our 16 calls. In 2015, we asked: Might the plasticity of our language be responsible for the gaps between us? In 2016,…
Actionable resources for unanswerable times
Collective resources for learning, listening, and leaning in. The Seventh Wave deepens its commitment to and solidarity with oppressed, occupied, and marginalized people and communities worldwide. We feel, and fear, for our Jewish, Muslim, and Arab contributors as we watch, in real time, the surge in antisemitism and Islamophobia around the world — just as we have feared for our Black, Indigenous, Asian, diasporic, queer, and trans contributors, and contributors of all marginalized identities. We will continue to dedicate resources toward collective healing and solidarity. Below are a few resources, which we will continue to add to: Act. For those looking for concrete actions, a few places to donate: Save…
In Unanswerable Times
A response to our impossible present. We are living between the insufficiency and violence of language. Still, words matter. Because in a single word is a world: a name, a land, a future, a home. When you string enough words together, you create a narrative. And so we know this intimately, too: narratives matter, especially the ones that are being silenced, oppressed, and erased. As we’ve seen time and again and today, narrative is the foundation — a political prerequisite — for war and genocide. No violence occurs in a vacuum. Like many others, we are feeling the shared outrage of this moment, and we are at a loss for…
25 questions for unanswerable times
A continued response to our impossible present. In times of speechlessness — when either words don’t feel sufficient, accessible, helpful, or possible — we at The Seventh Wave have always turned to questions. Below are 25 questions that we’ve pulled from our past eight years, spanning calls from 16 issues and inspiring writing and art from hundreds of contributors. We have always endeavored to ask questions that are both timely and timeless, and these 25 in particular feel like they speak to this moment. Consider these questions as prompts for critical thought or even questions to help spark more words and conversations as we continue to navigate these tumultuous times,…
Introducing the 18 voices of Issue 16 winter edition
The second half of the issue is a literary powerhouse. Earlier this year, we were thrilled to share the 15 incredible voices that made up the summer edition of Issue 16: Proximities. (You can read some really nice things that our editors had to say about their pieces here, and peruse the entire issue here.) And now, as the weather turns, we’re shining a light on the 18 voices who comprise our winter edition of the issue, rounding out a conversation that began back in fall 2022, just about a year ago now. Talk about a full circle moment. As you may recall, we opened up the call for submissions…
Art in the space of social issues
