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Poets Corner: To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall by Kim Addonizio

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Poets Corner: To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall by Kim Addonizio

To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall If you ever woke in your dress at 4am ever closed your legs to a man you loved opened them for one you didn’t moved against a pillow in the dark stood miserably on a beach seaweed clinging to your ankles paid good money for a bad haircut backed away from a mirror that wanted to kill you bled into the back seat for lack of a tampon if you swam across a river under rain sang using a dildo for a microphone stayed up

The Reality of “Silence Breaking” in Communities of Color

Dierra Bynum-Reid

The Reality of “Silence Breaking” in Communities of Color

The year 2017 started out and often times remained bleak especially if you were a person of color or a woman. If you belonged to both groups things were especially difficult for you due to proposed policies that target and terrorized your very existence and a commander–in-chief who has openly disrespected both communities. Despite the hardships presented women from all backgrounds have prevailed and ended the year with a ferocious and daring feat, taking on sexual harassment

Jacqueline Secor: Painting Vulvae

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Jacqueline Secor: Painting Vulvae

Having grown up in Pollock Pines, CA at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Jacqueline draws influence from nature as well as primitive art and prehistoric cave paintings. "Diversity of Nature" focuses on the elemental power of the female body, and serves as a celebration of womanhood.The project began as a personal coping mechanism to battle Body Dysmorphia Disorder. “Best. Worst. Perfect. Gross. These are words that are too often used to describe female bodies. Women a

3 Ways to Address Stereotypes Directed at You

Boundless Awareness

3 Ways to Address Stereotypes Directed at You

"I Love How All You Indians Are So smart!" – Ways to Address Stereotypes Directed at You by Pooja Kothari, Esq. Illustration by Tirzah Khan You know those phrases that sound like compliments but are not all that flattering when you think about them? Several years ago I was on a road trip and someone, who I know had the best of intentions, said to me: "I love how all you Indians are so smart!" Saying “thank you” to this stereotype would have been problematic to me on many leve

Meet the girls behind Project: Girl

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Meet the girls behind Project: Girl

We met up with Connie Saltzman, an actress and show creator, to talk about her latest project– Project: Girl. Triggered into action upon the election of Trump as the President of the United States, Connie felt the need to create a show that went beyond her, a short-film series about feminism and girlhood. Moments that, no matter how small, have shaped us into the women we are today. Below Connie tells us about her project, joined by Kate and Steph, the two other women working

Poets Corner: From by Nayyirah Waheed

Words By Women: Bawdy Love Manifesto by Lauren Marie Fleming

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Words By Women: Bawdy Love Manifesto by Lauren Marie Fleming

I am worthy of love right now, right here, no exceptions. My voice deserves to be heard, my body deserves to be seen, my soul deserves to be nourished. I do not have to earn decadence, joy, and pleasure. Thriving is my birth-right. Bawdy Love is a revolution, a loud declaration that every body is worthy and no body is shameful. When the world tells you to be smaller, I want you to be more grandiose. When the world tells you to change, I want you to invest even more in yoursel

Book: Pink Ranger by Amy Wesson

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Book: Pink Ranger by Amy Wesson

Howl Magazine New York is happy to introduce a new addition to our website: Books! In a flippable e-book format, we will be publishing the work of various artists; photographers, creative writers, poets, etc. To kick off Books, we've published Amy Wesson's creative writing piece Pink Ranger. Pink Ranger is a zine that portrays the day-to-day drug-fueled teenage angst and love stories of suburban middle-class America. With a unique style and unapologetic prose, Amy's is a budd

Words By Women: Poem By Eileen Myles

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Words By Women: Poem By Eileen Myles

Maxfield Parrish By Eileen Myles I always put my pussy in the middle of trees like a waterfall like a doorway to God like a flock of birds. I always put my lover's cunt on the crest of a wave like a flag that I can pledge my allegiance to. This is my country. Here, when we're alone in public. My lover's pussy is a badge is a night stick is a helmet is a deer's face is a handful of flowers is a waterfall is a river of blood is a bible is a hurricane

Words By Women: Jana Sawicki

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Words By Women: Jana Sawicki

“The woman who checks her make up half a dozen times a day to see if her foundation has caked or her mascara has run, who worries that the wind or the rain may spoil her hairdo, who looks frequently to see if her stockings have bagged at the ankle or who, feeling fat, monitors everything she eats, has become a self-policing subject, a self-committed to a relentless self-surveillance. This self-surveillance is a form of obedience to patriarchy.” — Jana Sawicki Disciplining Fou