The Mythologies of Mother | Jai Hamid Bashir

In your living room, a sacred ordered space where everything has history in placement, I found an atlas. It was arranged next to the plate of cut apples and figs left by my Father. Ringing around the edge of the plate’s pattern, in the way you told me…

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Pornography’s Lesson | Anna Coppola

I was walking up my driveway on a frigid Friday night when I received a cryptic text from a good friend. I slid my phone open with gloved mitts and read the message:

Featured Friday | Meet Elena Passarello

Today we feature writer and actress, Elena Passarello. Read more about this dynamic woman…

Fake Haikus on Yellow Assimilation | Sophia E. Terazawa

We collect the dirt
and dust with our bruised fingers
from atop the shrine.

An unused bookmark
lies across the bronze feet of
a patient statue.

A Pattern, Not a Destiny | B R Sanders

A team of three psychologists sat in front of me; two were residents while the lead specialized in post-partum psychological distress. One of my partners, Jon, sat beside me. I held my child, five months old at the time, in my lap. We sat in a room with a wall…

Hallway Open to Snow | Ilona Martonfi

I am five, ten, eight, and nine again

at eleven, I was free to choose
at nine, did I have a choice to miss my class

Hafling | Kathleen Ferguson

they ask me about mythology and I tell them
I want to be a harpy, I want to have talons

I want to be beautiful and winged, with my breasts
pooling down my chest, unashamed

Featured Friday | Meet Never Kerouac

Today’s featured writer is feminist poet, Sydney Cunningham, who writes under the pseudonym…

Ninevah | Carrie Naughton

this
has all happened before
and I am sorry

Ninevah
listen
to the beating of fists
on the drum skins
on the soil itself
on the chests of men
on the faces of women

Featured Friday | Meet Michaela Haas

Copyright Gayle M. LandesFem: Your book, Dakini Power, shares the stories of prominent female Tibetan Buddhist teachers. What motivated you to explore their perspectives?

Featured Friday | Meet Loretta Oleck

Today’s Featured Writer is Loretta Oleck, a psychotherapist, photographer, and poet with a…

Things I Have Been Meaning To Say | Julia Alexander

i. a smashed in window,
broken ankle throbbing,
i have pulled bits of glass from my palms
every day for a month.
ii. i always think that
people are staring at me.
i always look down, always avoid the eyes.
i have felt different for so long…

Splayed | Jessica Sheets

my body said: Come here, I am yours as there is no me.
And you commented that you would like to fill in each of my…

Featured Friday | Meet Nicole Belanger

Feminist writer and leader, Nicole Belanger, is our next featured writer. Check out our…