Kit-Bacon Gressitt

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Good Mourning, America

By | 2020-11-06T15:38:01-08:00 August 8th, 2019|Categories: Issue 92: 08 August 2019|Tags: , , , , , , , |

By Kit-Bacon Gressitt   It’s eighth-grade writing class day and the weekly morning jaunt to my favorite little school, nestled in a rural Southern California valley. Here, the water table’s level prevents developers from bulldozing nurseries and groves, and there’s still a farmer’s grange. A canopy of Live Oaks shades my drive to the school, where [...]

Heads on the Chopping Block

By | 2018-10-06T13:45:27-07:00 October 4th, 2018|Categories: Issue 72: 04 October 2018|Tags: , , , , |

By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham and all other D.C. misogynists: Beware. You think Medusa was a monster? Politics hath no fury like a sexual assault survivor scorned mocked, belittled, lied about, ignored. Our rage is beautiful and terrifying. Our votes will turn you not to stone but to [...]

On the Front Lines

By | 2019-12-12T12:26:03-08:00 January 19th, 2017|Categories: Issue 8: 19 Jan 2017|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Fiction by Kit-Bacon Gressitt You look in the bedroom mirror, small enough to deny self-adoration, and pull your brownish hair into a ponytail. Tight, like Mother used to do it. You turn to the bed. Your clothes are laid out on sheets held in place by perfect hospital corners. You dress in practical layers, to accommodate the [...]