Tag: women’s issues

Birdcage

Alexandra Meehan

She hangs Baskets by birdcages Flowers, a shovel, paper weights On loose newspapers that flutter In the wind—a bearing, A stone garden for zen. Wing clippings. I heard She had a backstreet abortion Once she crossed the law— She knows no-more-wire-hangers Better than I do, I imagine The Swinging Sixties Read more

Alexandra Meehan

Alexandra Meehan is a neurodivergent poet and poetry editor residing in Gainesville, Florida. Alexandra earned her BA in English from the University of South Florida in Creative Writing.She has mentored lyricists and has worked as a professional writer and as a creative director. Alexandra enjoys watching foreign films, cultivating carnivorous plants, and painting. She is enamored by wordplay and has a lifelong obsession with Emily Dickinson. Alex's work has appeared in Feminine Collective and Rhythm & Bones Lit. She has a forthcoming poetry book. Follow Alexandra on Twitter @LexMeehan

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Christina Strigas

Living with them can be mostly a drag. I got them in Grade 10, a curse from Aphrodite. I got them gift-wrapped under cotton shirts, cotton bras,  wonder  bras thirty dollar bras, now 130 bare necessity bras, with black lace, purple flowers, a life of heaviness. I got cysts, I Read more

Christina Strigas

Christina Strigas is an author and poet, raised by Greek immigrants, who has written four poetry books. Her poetry book LOVE & VODKA was featured by CBC Books in, “Your Ultimate Canadian Poetry List: 68 Poetry Collections Recommended by you.” Her most recent poetry book, LOVE & METAXA, has garnered positive reviews, including Pank Magazine. Strigas’s poems have appeared in Montreal Writes, Feminine Collective, Neon Mariposa Magazine, Pink Plastic House Journal, BlazeVOX, Thimble Lit Magazine, Twist in Time Literary Magazine, The Temz Review, and Coffin Bell Journal, among others. Her poem, “Dead Wife” was nominated for best of the net 2020. In Spring 2022, she will be releasing her fifth poetry book by Free Lines Press, a French indie magazine that publishes experimental poetry. Twitter: @christinastriga Instagram : @c.strigas_sexyasspoet Facebook: Christina Strigas Author

Women: Ragged and Torn, Again, Thanks to Texas

Marsha Owens

I can become easily pissed sometimes, but today I’m juggling just feeling pissed with wanting to slam every man I see into a frigging wall, smashing his head. If only I had the strength. But I don’t. I’m a fragile little woman, you know—that weaker sex, not strong enough. Of Read more

Marsha Owens

Marsha is a retired educator who lives and writes in Richmond VA. Her favorite quote for these troubled times: “Take your broken heart and turn it into art.” (Meryl Streep) Her work has been published at NewVerseNews, The Wild Word, and Life in 10 Minutes. #Resist

MIMI FROM COAST TO COAST

Adrienne Pine

As I write this, a narcissist holds the highest office in our country. The narcissistic personality is one with which I am all too familiar, for I was raised by parents whose narcissism, like Trump’s, went hand-in-hand with crippling insecurity and a lack of impulse control. My mother in particular Read more

The Shapes I’ve Been

Nicole Zwolinski

I say I know Minnesota like the back of my hand. I don’t know the back of my hand. I wouldn’t recognize it on the street or if it slammed a door. 1 Not like I recognize the lines etched near my eyes, I saw them emerging at 20 and Read more

Nicole Zwolinski

Nicole Zwolinski earned a BA in Creative Writing with a focus in poetry and Mass Communications – Journalism. Zwolinski is always learning and continues to take courses through The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and in 2011 attended the Mississippi River Creative Writing Workshop at St. Cloud State University. Zwolinski’s favorite course at The Loft was Writing through Photographs with Brad Zellar. Zwolinski has had a few short short plays performed live. In addition to plays, Zwolinski has had numerous poems selected for live readings. Zwolinski’s work has appeared in Firewords Quarterly, Flash Fiction Magazine, Bare Hands Issue 20, FishFood Magazine, Feminine Collective, and had a piece published in NEAT.

I Want to Die a Suffragette

Saoirse Staff

  Recently, in one of my history lessons, we started a new topic which was about suffragettes and the movement they created. First of all, when I found out we were doing this subject, I got very excited as I have very strong views about this subject, but it did Read more

Saoirse Staff

Saoirse Staff is 13 years old. She attends secondary school in Northampton, England and loves drama and art. She has always had passionate views about feminism and equality since a young age. She has just recently started writing pieces about her views. Saoirse has an older brother and a younger sister. She is a middle child and her star sign is Taurus. Her name is Irish for ‘freedom’. And most of the time, she is kind and compassionate, however she can get into heated discussions. In her spare time, Saoirse enjoys dancing (hip hop and ballet), shopping and hanging out with her friends.

Not 1937 but 1972

Elisabeth Horan

For Olds… for Bruck We aren’t shaped things like our moms’ hairdos So round so golden so smooth like this guy’s ego He says better not have that cheeseburger better not have that chocolate malted — And your thighs chafe like hers… so what — so, skinny is Holocaust rated. Read more

Elisabeth Horan

Elisabeth Horan is a poet mother student lover of kind people and animals, homesteading in Vermont with her tolerant partner and two young sons. She writes to survive and survives to write - We are all battling something. Let's support each other. Elisabeth enjoys riding horses and caring for her cats, chickens, goats and children (not necessarily in that order). She teaches at River Valley Community College in New Hampshire.

Found Wanting: Burning With Anger, The Hidden Truth of Eating Disorders

Christina Larocco

At my childhood best friend Ashley’s house, the pantry was big enough to sit in, and when we were bored, we did just that, eating whatever was around us. The pantry was long and narrow, cool and dark, with hardwood floors obscured by tins of flour and multi-flavored popcorn. It Read more

Christina Larocco

Christina Larocco is a writer and historian based in Philadelphia, where she is the editor-in-chief of a scholarly journal and a prose editor for Cleaver Magazine. Her creative nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Hotel Amerika, Avidly, Footnote, and Weird Sister. She is writing a biography-in-essays of nineteenth-century abolitionist and feminist Martha Schofield.