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On Caregiving
Anri Wheeler
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“How do we honor the powerful modalities of care that have always, and continue to, exist outside the bounds of dominant culture and systems?”
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On Rage
Jenika McCrayer
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“I’ve come to understand that my rage is inseparable from how deeply I love.”
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On Animals
Luke Sutherland
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“Animals have always haunted human art, but that haunting takes on a different quality when we understand ourselves to be the executioners.”
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On Revolt
Lyndon Nicholas
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“Revolt is not just protest. Not just uprising. It’s what happens between the moments, the movement that happens before and after.”
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On Monsters
Shlagha Borah
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“What hunger, what pain did these monsters embody, and why were they deemed demonic?”
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On Trans Healing
Stevie Billow
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“The current of cis binary gender was so overwhelmingly fast that I could never position myself well enough within it to float.”
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On Disabled Dreaming
Zoë Luh
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“This piece is an invitation to vulnerability, to feeling the sharp edges of your broken heart, to being gentle with yourself.”
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On Connectivity
April Dobbins
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“What are my options if I object to becoming fodder for someone else’s platform?”
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On Roots
Aquina Dicha
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“One of the major things I have inherited from my mother is her cultural identity and the crisis that comes with it.”
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On Imagination
Sylphia Basak
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“To know history is to understand that we have always exercised the right to revolt against our oppressors.”
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On Intimacies 缘份
huiyin zhou
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“yuán fèn is more elusive than the definitive and static qualities of a noun or a label. It is a way of thinking and living in relations with others.”
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On Desire
Emily Catherine Parzybok
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“Lately, I’ve been circling the drain of my own desire. Maybe because I’m uncertain of it.”
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Art Is Where We Meet Each Other
Joyce Chen
Essays
“We keep beginning again and again because we understand that this work is not a luxury; it is readying the soil for what our community intuitively knows can grow here.”
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On Black Joy
Desiree McCray
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“By delving into the intersection of race, joy, and justice, I aim to unearth pleasure as a tool that has the transformative potential to liberate.”
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On Care
Tala Khanmalek
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“Care is perhaps the most hackneyed term of the medical industrial complex, and yet, so central to its violent rhetoric.”
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