The Fifth-Grade Lesbian

Lissette Escariz Ferrá

Origine

Bending
Spring 2024 Issue

Writers Respond to Drawings by Laylah Ali

Bending | The Spring 2024 Issue

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Call My Mother

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CAFETERIA TRAVESTI

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Asterisms

Unbound and Noteworthy

Review: Steffan Triplett’s CONSTRAINTS

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Love in Their Own Ways: A Review of THE VEIL BETWEEN TWO WORLDS by Christina Vo

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How to Be a Mutha Effing Writer in 3 Easy Steps

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In Residence

A Space for Writers and Artists to Experiment and Collaborate

Aster(ix) In-Residence

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The Tarot Issue

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Cecilia Vicuña’s painting from 1972 “Amaranta"

The Amaranta Project

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Interviews & Conversations

Including Partnerships with City of Asylum, the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, and more

Firelei Báez on Generosity and Freedom in Art

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When Trying to Return Home: Interview with Jennifer Maritza McCauley

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STAY WILD: A conversation with poet and artist Jane Wong

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Microeditorials

Brief and Tough

Microeditorial: Rodillas, A Kind of Reckoning

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Today’s Suggested Yoga Pose: Mira Jacob Calls for India relief efforts from athletic yoga brands

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nightmares & blessings

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Remedios

For What Ails Us

Remedios: mediocrity is the space waiting to be filled by eccentricity

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Who is a Mother-Writer Without Guilt & Rage?

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Making Boardwalks out of Borders

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Aster(ix) Picks

In Honor of Mother’s Day: 5 Books Centering Immigrant Mothers

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Books We Love 2023

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Aster(ix) Picks: The 12 Best Fiction/Nonfiction Books of 2022

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