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As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
She is measuring the self she does not fully want to be.
Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
My neurologist calls me Mystery. Maybe at one point I would’ve found a strange pride in this. But when your body is leaving you, you’d give anything to be perfectly ordinary. I’m prepared to be emptied of complexity. Make me simple—known and understood and obvious. But that isn’t my name.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Women fill with fury at waste, eco-apocalypse and the pressure to be flawless in a lyrical and oblique short story collection
Lauren Elkin • Florida by Lauren Groff review – rage and refusal as Earth reaps the whirlwind
Letters to a Young Poet.
Satya Doyle Byock • Quarterlife
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