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Identity

Identity

For The Dead and Dying art

Three Poems For the Dead and Dying

By Zahra Gordon

A lament for those in and beyond the passage from here to there.

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Love Letter to Virginia Woolf essay art

Love Letter to Virginia Woolf; or How Orlando Taught Me to Embrace My Femininity

By Rachel Veroff

Identification with a literary legend prompts a lucid renewal.

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Hawaiian On The Inside essay art

Hawaiian on the Inside

By Lehua Parker

Tension between appearance and origin inform a cultural legacy.

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Tiny Dancer essay art

Tiny Dancer

By Nicole Goodwin

Dignified curtsies in dark corners, empowering pirouettes atop threatening structures, liberating heel turns through unfriendly places.

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Sarapiqui story art

Sarapiqui

By Hope Lindsay

Mysticism moves mountains as the land trundles over fragile feelings.

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A Bend in the Track story art

A Bend In the Track

By Aditya Desai

Existential discontent reroutes and recovers.

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Ghost Story Crafted for a Girl Child story art

ghost story crafted for a girl-child

By Samantha DeFlitch

Environmental harm contaminates the soul of the abusers and discolors the spirit of the abused.

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Implications film art

The Implications of Giovanni's Room on Black Boy Queer Identity

By Khalil Anthony

After Baldwin, in a voice that shakes and sounds a freedom knell.

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Nude No. 1 by Carl Bowlby

Nude No. 1

By Carl Bowlby

The naked risk reveals a steely will.

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The Holy Family by Carl Bowlby

The Holy Family

By Carl Bowlby

A mannerist pose, a pious glare.

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