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Everyone Tells Me

Issue 136: 23 June 2022

Everyone Tells Me

By Editor| 2022-06-18T12:11:16-07:00 June 23rd, 2022|Categories: Issue 136: 23 June 2022|Tags: Poetry, sexual assault, rape, violence against women, Alma Ariaz|

By Alma Ariaz Everyone tells me It wasn’t my fault, That karma will get him, Will leave him to rot. Everyone tells me I should have fought harder, And why did I wear that, I was asking for trouble. Everyone tells me, That ‘no’ isn’t binding, It’s fluid, it’s blurred, I am overreacting. Filthy, contaminated, [...]

Man with a Knife
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Man with a Knife

Issue 113: 25 June 2020

Man with a Knife

By Editor| 2020-06-25T07:25:37-07:00 June 25th, 2020|Categories: Issue 113: 25 June 2020|Tags: Fiction, #MeToo, sexual assault, Tara Stillions Whitehead, secual harassment, rape, Hollywood, film industry, script|

By Tara Stillions Whitehead ENTER death as sound blackening an already shadowy scene—as a long, hard lament from the HORN of the failed getaway car. Then, as a YOUNG WOMAN. Everything is lost; everyone has lost. At this distance, death is an exquisite execution of convention. A triumph of method acting. Near-perfect cinema. It will [...]