COLUMNS
Gaze
Irena Ioannou on the dream of gender equality and the work that still needs to be done
Spotlight
Maria Behan on the malignancy of Trump, immorality overload, and America as a banana republic
Roar
Lorna O’Hara on the upcoming Irish abortion referendum and on imagining a more compassionate Ireland
Head Above Water
Tim Clark on dreams past and present, big and small, and the love of a good story
Letters from Berlin
Annie Mark-Westfall on the lessons her son will learn growing up in Germany
Behind Domestic Lines
Jami Ingledue on the damage done by the patriachy and how to raise boys in this era of Trump
Not Another TV Dad
CL Bledsoe on growing up in the Bible Belt, faith, and the demons that haunted his dreams
Brood
Robert Taylor on Kanye’s tirades, fandom, and becoming ourselves
Dear Growler
Our agony aunt Growler gives advice to a single woman who feels pressured to get married and have children
ORIGINS
FICTION
Origins
In our new ORIGINS column poet Jessica Purdy writes on the inspiration behind her poem ‘Dream Meteor’
Lydia Wong
Lydia Wong’s short story ‘Naila’
POETRY
Debbie Collins
Debbie Collins’s poem ‘Untitled #8’
Aurelien Thomas
Aurélien Thomas’s poem ‘A Fetish’
A. E. Sadeghipour
A.E. Sadeghipour’s poem ‘Peter Pan’
George Franklin
George Franklin’s poem ‘Speaking of Love’
Sandra Sarala
Sandra Sarala’s poems ‘Nocturnal Emission’ and ‘I am not a dream’
Steve Kleptetar
Steve Klepetar’s poems ‘Swept with Rain’, ‘The House of Hills’, and ‘A Trail of Crumbs’
Craw – TAU
One of our Artists-in-Residence and founding member of the artist collective CRAW – TAU
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