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this is going to hurt.
Tess ponders anger, and the mysterious ball of hair currently clogging her bathroom sink.
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Body Story — A Response
Nuanzhi Zheng stretches her response to Xin Ji’s ‘Body Story’ to consider queerness, Chinese identity, family and whether the body truly keeps the score.
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Love Poetry (canal & cutis)
Meander Farrow writes about appearance, reaction, and truth in two love poems born from gazing at their partner across her gender transition.
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Magpie Man
In this new poem, Laura Hern explores the immediate adversity that comes with being bound in a woman’s body and the frustration at not being able to reach full potential due to normalised societal stigma.
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Only Bones – Daniel Nodder — A Response
In a new interpretation of Thom Monckton’s ‘Only Bones’ prompt, Daniel Nodder presents a work of physicality. Emily Draper writes of the thriving monster in this response.