Current Issue: Spring 2025 - Pieces of the Puzzle
Editors’ Note
Mar 1, 2025
The theme of this issue is “Pieces of the Puzzle.” Readers were asked to reflect on formative...
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Imbalances
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
By Sara Collie I am 10 or 11, navigating some pre-teen cusp of selfhood when the question rises up, engulfs me, troubling that long sunstroked lunch outside the Cornish pub under the looming cliffs where I watch the waitress...
Read MoreAROUND THE WORLD: RUSSIA – Cat Karim
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Around the World
By Ayman Eckford “He is so cute; can I pet him? Please?” Katrin, one of the coordinators of Saint...
Read MoreWhat Is This Feeling? An Ode to Wicked
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Mage Hadley It has been hard to ignore the musical Wicked this year with the release of Part...
Read MoreFriday Nights
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Gabriela Gioia When I was a child I lived in Florencio Varela, a small city in Argentina two...
Read MoreFabric Art – Abstract No. 19
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Jo-Anne Carlson Artist statement: This is a fiber piece, made with various types of yarn and...
Read MoreVoyeurism
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
By K. Olivia Overton Channel 62 at 2:00 a.m. features naked ladies and a man’s voice that guarantees the second DVD free sent in discreet packaging if you call now. Their shiny skin and soft cries made her tummy tickle like when...
Read MoreBadass and Full of Sass
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Janie Kang There she was. Her glowing, smooth skin reflected the early morning sun. Her dark...
Read MorePretty Girls, Fandom, and My Path from Uncertainty to Self-Acceptance
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Julia Barnes-Brown When I sat down to write this piece, I started by thinking through my...
Read MoreDavid Lynch Died Today
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Darby Swab In college, a “Tumblr famous” girl lived in the same dorm as me. I’ll tell the truth...
Read MoreClosing My Eyes
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
By Natalie Schriefer I remember not the paperwork mounding on my desk, staff stretched thin with...
Read MoreTwenty-Five Years Later and the Hex Girls Can Still Get It
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Gretchen Uhrinek “With this little cobweb potion You’ll fall into dark devotion If you ever...
Read MoreOut and Forgot Your lantern, Looking for Yourself
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Maia Brown-Jackson I. When do you fake being a person well enough that it becomes the truth?...
Read MoreLoved
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Kai Crawford Grandma had been sitting on the couch. The yellowish-brown family couch, where...
Read MoreLipstick on Gravestones
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
By Elaine Server It’s my first semester and the local community college has all the gallantry and...
Read MoreOh, So That’s Why…
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Xénia Where do I even begin? Although I know now that I’m bi and ace, relating a lot to the...
Read MoreScene Queen
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Sophie Rose ARTIST STATEMENT: Despite knowing the terms lesbian and gay since early childhood,...
Read MoreEverything That Should Be Mine
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
By Bethany Gavine Enchanted by the subtle and effortless feminine around me The women in my life...
Read MoreUnabridged
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Kaye Devlynne ARTIST STATEMENT: My art is a raw reflection of my personal journey—a journey...
Read MorePieces of Me
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Lara Zielinsky My first attractions weren’t towards boys, but I didn’t question it. I just...
Read MoreA Community at Risk: The Immediate and Long-Term Impact of Project 2025 on the LGBTQ+ Community
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Jenise Justice The Current Assault on LGBTQ+ Rights In recent months, the United States has...
Read MoreMonths of Silence
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Monica Meneghetti I extend these words like wings to brush all the anxious places. May their motion across page create updraft to help you soar. If altars are where the divine rests, then this paper is holy, these words,...
Read MorePRIDE: Poems by Cheryl Williams, 2024
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
Cheryl (Che) Williams is an artist, poet, singer, and songwriter from Boston, MA in the U.S.
Read MoreA Gentle Reflection
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Mikey Vibal As much as I would like to say we survived this in 2016, the truth is many of our...
Read MoreRally
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Amy Cook Midmorning, brutally cold, but warming. My hands are fucking freezing, even with the Hot Hands® tucked inside my gloves. Hundreds of people stand on the sidewalk in front of the United States Supreme Court. A...
Read MoreRESEARCH CORNER Bi+ Communities and Their Experiences and Needs in Europe: Findings from the Bi+ Equal Survey
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Research Corner
By the Bi+ Equal Research Team: Jantine van Lisdonk, Zeynab Peyghambarzadeh, Hilde Vossen, and...
Read MoreI think I might be a chameleon
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
By Alex think I might be a chameleon my identities are shifting like shades in the light. Maybe I’m a rainbow, or maybe I’m the storm before it, a mix of all that nature is, earth, fire, wind, and water just like that,...
Read MoreBisexual Killjoy Podcast Gives Us Life
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle
By Jen Bonardi I’m driving to Vermont, one of the snowiest states in the U.S., while listening to...
Read MoreBi Umbrella
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Poetry
By Gia Choquette I wonder when the ice began to melt Thawing me into the truth Was it when her leg...
Read MoreReview of Polyamory for Dummies by Jaime M. Grant, PhD
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Reviews
By Jennifer Taub, Ph.D. Author Jaime M. Grant, PhD is a queer sex activist, researcher, and...
Read MoreShe See Us, Sis: A Review of A Vessel Born to Float
Mar 1, 2025 | 2025 Spring - Pieces of the Puzzle, Reviews
by Yazmin Monét Watkins By Angélique “Angel” Gravely In the epigraph of Yazmin Monét Watkins’s...
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