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Arts in Society

Nobody Would Have Heard You

Motherhood can be a crushing disappointment.

Arts in Society

Athena Dreams of a Hollow Body

Once I learned of the existence of mothers, I decided to order one for myself.

Arts in Society

The Reformatory

Stories are dangerous. They can get you killed.

Arts in Society

Sky Veins of Potosí

“You used terms such as revolutionaries. Comrades. And, most illegally of all: lovers. Unmarried people who fuck each other without the goal of childrening. Well, I was sunk.” A tale of forbidden love in an age when corporations have replaced government.

Jordy Rosenberg

Arts in Society

Indefinitely

Life is for living, my dead mother said.

Lindsay R. Taylor

Arts in Society

All the Places Without Windows

He will surprise her on the anniversary of the end.

Arts in Society

My Last Client

“I wanted his body to begin and end elsewhere, at home, meaning his home, wherever that was, meaning even I, whose job was to include him, wanted him out.”

Kristen Gleason

Arts in Society, Podcast

History Is a Dystopia

After the slave trade and colonization, history has become a dystopia.

Arts in Society

Sunflowers

Eventually, it became obvious that we didn’t have a mission. Or our mission, for what it’s worth, was the lack thereof.

Bryan Washington

Arts in Society

Imagine Every Light Is a Woman Who Came to the City Alone

A mother is a mother, regardless of the latest information regarding her children.

Arts in Society

Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue

“The intake process begins with dismantling her personal space, one mantle at a time.”

Charlie Jane Anders

Arts in Society, Podcast

Waving at Trains

Nalo Hopkinson on the politics of dystopia, writing from the Global South, and the enduring importance of black mermaids.

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