Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue Maybe while I was shitting, my IUD came out, which is something that can happen. Maybe my body decided, against my brain, my rational self, that it didn’t want this foreign object shoved inside of it....
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue Three. It’s a powerful number. There’s hardly any entity in our world that does not acknowledge the significance of the number three. If you’re a Jew, there are the Three Tribes of Israel. The...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue I didn’t realize I was pregnant until we were moving out of the duplex and into our new condo. After a long day of hauling boxes, I collapsed on the new hardwood floors and tried to understand my...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue “You can have all the gold in all the hills, but I will take the smile of this tiny child.” Those were the first words my Mohawk grandfather said to my child when he first held her. Being weeks...
Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue “As soon as I was visibly and clearly pregnant, I felt, for the first time in my adolescent and adult life, not-guilty.” – Adrienne Rich This is a good Midwestern neighborhood, our realtor tells us when we...
