Volume 3

February 2022 - April 2022

Joanna George

Thunder Thighs

 

Eli Dunham

 

Serra Sanzo

Oh, Comforting Dependance

 

Clementine Williams

I Found Gender in my Grandmother’s Clothes

 

Sheeks Bhattacharjee

Panic Attack

 

Perry Wyatt

Paper Mouth

 

Annie Marhefka

Ode to My Postpartum Body

 

nat raum

thoracic vertebrae


 

nat raum

swiper no swiping

 

Christine Sung

seven ways to stunt your growth

 

Sterling-Elizabeth Arcadia

its hidden

 

Arun Jeetoo

They

 

Shufei Ewe

people tell me i look good now that i’ve lost weight & i think about the way

 

JW Summerisle

Daisy Inhabits a Boy

 

Helen Bowie

Fruitful

 

Cecilia Kennedy

Waiting

 

L.E. Boxley

MY BODY MY HOME

 

Kit Isherwood

Cycle

 

Imogen Smiley

In Body And Mind

my thighs can hold up anything, I assure him, again.
And I let my thighs jingle like thunder
as I walk across him in my shorts.

Joanna George, Thunder Thighs

 

My unconscious has better things to do than show me to me

Eli Dunham

 

I think it was supposed to say love

Serra Sanzo, Oh, Comforting Dependence

 

Cause that's all we are
ain't we?
Body parts through
clothes until we
decide

Clementine Williams, I Felt Gender in My Grandma's Clothes

 

just breathe
please...

i can't

Sheeks Bhattacharjee, Panic Attack

 

It wanted to walk.
So, I made the bones
From an old dictionary,
Lungs from a Bible,
Tongue my old bookmark,
But that wasn't enough

Perry Wyatt, Paper Mouth

 

Remember when you flaunted
perky breasts and rounded buttocks,
one knee bent, ninety-degrees of toned
muscle and sun-licked

Annie Marhefka, Ode to My Postpartum Body

 

i tear                     like holes in the thighs of my new jeans

                                           [please lord, it is not my choice to exist in a body.]

nat raum, thoracic vertebrae

 

i've never had an orgasm, i've never said i love you first

rat raum, swiper no swiping

 

shrink in the dryer
you were never needed to fit
in your own skin & baggy

Christine Sung, seven ways to stunt your growth

 

i am missing amidst the pastels & primaries
but the future curves around

Sterling-Elizabeth Arcadia, its hidden

 

They don't get your body like i do
like i want to
again

Arun Jeetoo, They

 

// i singe

my body’s desires to play the part of the desired //

Shufei Ewe, people tell me i look good now that i’ve lost weight & i think about the way

 

Six Watercolor Sketches of Daisy

JW Summerisle

 

while I had you, everything but you / was a cluster of cells

Helen Bowie, Fruitful

 

Deny the rumblings inside my stomach. Tell myself it's not for me.

Cecilia Kennedy, Waiting

 

what a home I have made in this body
ill as it is
it is my own

L.E. Boxley, MY BODY MY HOME

 

would love to give u a hug and i need
one

Kit Isherwood, Cycle

 

Skinny jean lacerations will no longer
Form scars

Imogen Smiley, In Body And Mind

 

this gender
is taught to beat
tender into submission

CAEDUS, Searing Off

CAEDUS

Searing Off

 

Inside my mouth,
Performance Art Week Aotearoa in 2021

Jazmine Rose Phillips & Courtney Rodgers

Jazmine Rose Phillips &
Courtney Rodgers

Inside my mouth

 

the thing that you don't want to be:
awake, breathing, alive.

HLR, Ways in Which Your Body Stopped You From Living Your Dreams

HLR

Ways in Which Your Body Stopped You From Living Your Dreams

 

Jo doesn’t sleep with anyone these days, sleeping is for the baseline. Jo doesn’t sleep…

Ian Badcoe, Girl with degenerate matter earring

Ian Badcoe

Girl with degenerate matter earring

 

How does one see
a breaking point coming
when time is stuck in a loop
of the crisis ordinary?

Skyler J. Keiter-Massefski, INTERREGNUM/FRAGMENTS

Skyler J. Keiter-Massefski

INTERREGNUM/FRAGMENTS

 

And these boys
Will think they have done nothing wrong

Amy Gillies, Boys

Amy Gillies

Boys

 

If you’re asking where the line is the answer is farther

Ben Horrobin, Too Honest

Ben Horrobin

Too Honest

 

BEE LB

self portrait in a dissociated state

i punish myself
i watch myself unfold

BEE LB, self portrait in a dissociated state