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    The Problem with “Pretty Girls” and Princesses

    December 30, 2018June 26, 2020 by admin
  • Guests

    An Open Letter All Men – Let’s Talk About Rape, Trauma and Abuse

    November 17, 2018June 27, 2020 by admin
  • Guests / March Issue

    Pricks, Pics and Love Without Respect

    September 26, 2018June 26, 2020 by admin
  • Guests

    Why I am Starting a Religion Called WTF ! By Kara Post-Kennedy

    June 7, 2018June 27, 2020 by admin
  • Guests / Poetry

    Ardor at the Front Door

    October 27, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin
  • Guests / Poetry

    Trusting Life’s Detours

    September 29, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin
  • Guests / Poetry

    Southern Daughters and Other Poems by Anwer Ghani

    September 22, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin
  • Guests / Journeys

    On the Move: Life as an Army Kid

    September 20, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin
  • Guests / Journeys

    Journey From Death to Life

    September 18, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin
  • Guests / Poetry

    A Destination & Other Poems by Ian Randall Wilson

    September 11, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin
Beauty Empowering Women Guests 

The Problem with “Pretty Girls” and Princesses

December 30, 2018June 26, 2020 by admin

By Angela Noel A woman with a cloud of yellow-tinted hair compared my face to a series of shapes and declared it too round to be the coveted oval of beautiful people. I was eight years old. Why this lady,…

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Guests 

An Open Letter All Men – Let’s Talk About Rape, Trauma and Abuse

November 17, 2018June 27, 2020 by admin

Trust us when we tell you it was out of our control. Send firmly away the instinct to second guess. That instinct is a lie.
You may have other struggles, but you don’t know this vulnerability. You’ll never understand this fear.…

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Guests March Issue 

Pricks, Pics and Love Without Respect

September 26, 2018June 26, 2020 by admin

Content Warning: sexual harassment and assault  Image capture by RetyiRetyi. Sex is fun. I’m always in a good mood afterwards. It’s good exercise. It helps my insomnia, sometimes. So, yeah, I’m a fan. “Who isn’t?” you might ask. Well, past…

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Mission Statement 

A Rant for the Everyday Douchebags, FaceBook Messenger Trolls and haters

June 27, 2018June 27, 2020 by admin

Mother Dick, you are a douche. Start using yourself like the tool you are. Start by draping yourself with bath blankets and water proof pads. I hear Egyptian cotton is amazing, make sure you grab those. Next insert your middle…

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Empowering Women March Issue Regular Contributor 

Why men don’t listen, but you’re winning ladies.

June 26, 2018June 26, 2020 by admin

We aren’t very respectful to women, us men. I’ve sat for almost two years inside the heart of a raw group of women writers and I’ve learned, deeply, that all they want is for us to listen to them. I…

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Guests 

Why I am Starting a Religion Called WTF ! By Kara Post-Kennedy

June 7, 2018June 27, 2020 by admin

Our first commandment is this: THOU SHALT NOT LET ANYONE COMMAND YOU TO DO BULLSHT THAT MAKES YOU MISERABLE. Unless it’s your parents, we’ll keep that one—go ahead and honor your parents because you will just feel better if you…

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Empowering Women Essays 

“I Feel Bad for the Charging Bull!” Wall Street’s “Fearless Girl”-By Jillian Green DiGiacomo

April 19, 2018June 27, 2020 by admin

“These days it’s all about the Fearless Girl, that adorable little figure secretly installed in lower Manhattan by an investment firm to celebrate (and advertise) its “Gender Diversity Index” fund. The 250-pound bronze statue by artist Kristen Visbal, stands head…

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Regular Contributor 

Love Languages? Screw It.

January 27, 2018June 27, 2020 by admin

Youse all know about Love Languages, right? According to Wikipedia, The Five Love Languages is a book by Gary Chapman, outlining the five universal ways that people give and receive love in romantic relationships. According to Oprah Winfrey’s wardrobe stylist, The Five Love…

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Facing Our Fears Regular Contributor 

I Think We’re Alone Now?

October 30, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin

I think about aliens.   A lot.  Basically, “Big wide universe, where are the aliens at?” In brief (and adorable) cartoon form: Galacduck scares the hell out of me now. Oh shit, Galacduck is right behind me, isn’t it??? But actually, there’s something that…

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Guests Poetry 

Ardor at the Front Door

October 27, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin

By Ava Thompson She’s been waitingLong past her expiration.She sits on the doorstep of successAnd waits for it to let her in. She’s outgrown the quiet worldOf compromise.Her voice is itching to run free.Her feet follow after. Her wanderlust will…

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Facing Our Fears Nonfiction 

Without a Net

October 16, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin

By Catherine Lanser After three months at the inpatient rehabilitation facility, it was time for my dad to move again.  Only five months after his brain hemorrhage and already it was hard to count how many stops he had made…

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Guests Poetry 

Trusting Life’s Detours

September 29, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin

I helped my daughter get ready for the new school year last night. While she was finishing her bedtime routine, I laid out her clothes and was struck by the fact that she’s entering fourth grade already – fourth grade.…

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Facing Our Fears Regular Contributor 

Corolla Illusions

September 27, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin

By C. Streetlights My mother had an avocado green Toyota Corolla when I was a small girl. The seats were a rusty orange and stuck to your bare legs in the hot summer sun, the plasticky vinyl coating your skin…

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Guests Poetry 

Southern Daughters and Other Poems by Anwer Ghani

September 22, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin

Southern Daughters I am from the south where the trees are dry and the rivers are waterless. Our sky is dark and its sun is foggy. I am from that south where everything is colorless. Our southern fields have daughters…

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Guests Journeys 

On the Move: Life as an Army Kid

September 20, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin

By Debbie Jinks On Friday 31st March 2017, we celebrated my mum and dad’s 50th Wedding Anniversary. They are now in their 70’s and it made me think back to my life as an Army child. We were on the…

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Guests Journeys 

Journey From Death to Life

September 18, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin

By Elaine Mansfield I walked the trails on my land, stunned by the contrast between fields of blooming purple lupines and my numb despair. My husband Vic had died the week before. We knew death was coming, but how can…

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Journeys Poetry 

Pride and Prejudice Revisited: with #HaikuJim

September 15, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin

Emily Dickinson once famously remarked that if she felt as though the top of her head were taken off, she knew she was reading poetry. And who among us did not read “It is a truth universally acknowledged, …” and feel our…

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Journeys Regular Contributor 

The Releasing of the Dam

September 13, 2017June 27, 2020 by admin

By C. Streetlights *(CW-Content Warning) Rape, Sexual Assault, Violent Crimes *  When someone is victim of a violent crime like rape and sexual assault, they know exactly the date their lives changed. There is a definitive before and after. If…

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