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Every five weeks or so, I look over at her and whine, “I think I wanna go on T.” Usually, we’re in the car; I’m driving. Sometimes we’re walking out of the grocery store. Occasionally she finds me in the bathroom, stuck in front of the sink, squinting at my chin. A year ago, this announcement would make her tense up: her shoulders might have jumped half an inch toward her ears and the trace of blue in her neck would spasm like a fish quivering under a thin sheet of ice. Then I had top surgery. After ferrying me…

In the U.S., immigrant and citizen migrant farm laborers work behind the scenes every day to ensure the planting, harvest, and shipment of the food and other agricultural products we rely on. Their work is an essential part of our daily lives—breakfast, lunch, and dinner—but their voices don’t usually get a seat at our tables.  We had the great honor of co-editing a portfolio of writing and art from twenty-seven contributors with roots in the farmworker community. It was recently published in print and online in The Common magazine, and a celebration with farmworker readers was held at Skylight Books…

Be a Woman, Be Yourself, Be Miserable B Back at his place, he showed me pictures of his ex-girlfriend, and I talked to him about Lars. Back home, I just lay in my room alone and masturbated, content with my mediocrity. Bad metaphor, humans as machines. Bah. Bakery in Berlin. Basically it’s a crazy year, that’s what Claire said, this is going to be a crazy year. Be a pro, Lemons said. Be a woman. Be an individual, he suggested. Be bald-faced and strange. Be calm. Be cautious with your money. Be clean and attractive. Be comfortable and assured and…

Kiley Reid’s sophomore novel, Come and Get It, centers around the fictional Belgrade dormitory at the University of Arkansas. Millie comes back to be a resident’s advisor for a group of transfer and scholarship students, including the problematic suite of Tyler, Peyton, and Kennedy. Kennedy, who transferred from Iowa after a traumatic incident, seeks the friendship and attention of Tyler and Peyton. Meanwhile, Agatha, a visiting professor, secretly observes the girls’ relationships and how they spend their money after striking up a relationship with Millie. All this leads to a series of pranks, revenge, and the breakdown of stability in…

“The Great Blue” by Kim Drew Wright I’m gliding on my back atop a paddleboard, up the silent creek that swindles away from the Chesapeake Bay, becoming smaller, muddier, filled with creatures I can’t see but hear rustling in the marsh grass, slinking into the water with trepidatious splunks. Herons fly overhead, their great necks curved in a protective S, as if they are aware of the dangers of this world. I curl further into myself, the fear rising up from my gut until I turn with shaky arms to head back into open water. We’ve rented a house with…

In an exclusive interview with TMZ, esteemed legal experts Alan Dershowitz and former U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins have brought new insights into the NXIVM case, a complex legal drama that has drawn national attention and raised significant questions about the integrity and fairness of the legal system. They are contesting the primary evidence leading to the conviction of Keith Raniere, the leader of the once-prominent self-help group NXIVM, suggesting a new twist in the ongoing saga. Central to their argument is a startling allegation: key photographic evidence, crucial to the case, may have been tampered with. This claim, supported by…

Jason Poncio’s new single â€Å�Never Run” (Remixed) is now available worldwide. Jason Poncio, originating from Houston Texas, has been doing music for over 20 years and his newest single is quickly making its way to being his most catchable song yet. â€Å�Never Run” (Remixed) has hit 200K plays on Spotify alone within the first few days. Quickly gaining global popularity in the UK, France, Spain, Canada and yes, even the United States. â€Å�Never Run” (Remixed) is an updated version of his song he originally did on his first album and re-released on his Commemorative album called â€Å�Timeline 20” where he…

Detroit in the 1920s proved to be the Paris of the West for many—including Catherine McIntosh and Robert Sage. These two law school students are as passionate about each other as they are their dreams. From a poor family in the neighborhood of Corktown, Catherine learned early on, the necessity of being resilient. She becomes one of the first women in Detroit to obtain a law degree. Bob, the ‘battling barrister,’ boxes in order to pay for law school. Despite his gruff and tough-boy personality, he is a friend to all: judges, cops, and even a couple members of the…

REVOLUSHN will be performing for the â€Å�Love Bomb Party” taking place at Universal Bar & Grill in North Hollywood, California on Saturday 2/3/24. REVOLUSHN will be sharing the stage with Doctor Striker, Big Chompers and Clem Darling & The Astronauts. REVOLUSHN is an American protest rock band from California, USA. They stand for the underdog, the outsiders, for freedom of thought and for the freaks that don’t fit in. You Can’t Stop Them!!! REVOLUSHN consists of NO Mansfield on fire guitar and vocals, drummer and lyrical prodigy DEKAY (David Kendrick), the visionary Neil Nyberg on bassist/vocals, and rounding out the…

When I heard Venita Blackburn had a novel coming out, my desire to read it was palpable, a hunger. Her work is distinctive—it’s sharp, smart, and imaginative, often pushing voice and form—and her debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California, is no exception.  The novel follows Coral, a lonely author of a dystopian novel who discovers her brother’s body after he dies by suicide. Aside from the EMTs who clear Jay’s body, Coral is the only person who knows of his death. She takes his unlocked cell phone and begins responding to his texts as if she is Jay, as…

The â€Å�P5” panel of US particle physicists says that work on developing a future muon collider could allow the US to regain the â€Å�energy frontier”, as Michael Allen reveals One for the future A muon facility could potentially be much more compact than a proton collider and perhaps cheaper to build. (Courtesy: CERN) The US should explore building a muon collider and pursue â€Å�aggressive” research and development into the technologies required for such a facility. That is the conclusion of a high-profile committee of US and international particle physicists following a year of meetings to discuss the future of US…

Today #TheSimonettaLeinShow continues its highly anticipated 6th Season as the show welcomes American actress and producer, Katie Leclerc! You would recognize Katie for any of her hit series, from â€Å�Switched at Birth” to â€Å�The Big Bang Theory”! She has also guest starred in the series ‘Veronica Mars’ all the way to ‘CSI”. Leclerc has done commercials for popular products and brands like Pepsi, Comcast, Cingular and GE as well. Katie started learning American Sign Language at 17 and at age 20 was diagnosed with Ménière’s disease, which leads to hearing loss. Katie has received the â€Å�TwoCentsTV  Award for Drama Queens” for â€Å�Switched at…

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“When you are in the throes of illness,” Jacqueline Alnes writes in her debut The Fruit Cure: The Story of Extreme Wellness Turned Sour, “there is something comforting about distilling the world into dichotomies: sick or well, bad or good, off-limits or completely nutritious. When so much seems unknowable about the very body you live in, it feels nice to stand on a firm platform made from rights rather than wrongs, even if the very platform itself is a false reality.” As a Division I collegiate runner, Alnes began experiencing mysterious and devastating neurological symptoms that remained unexplained by medical…

Cosmic pioneers: Arno Penzias (left) and Robert Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave background in the 1960s (Courtesy: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection) The cosmologist Arno Penzias, who discovered the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with Robert Wilson, died on 22 January at the age of 90. He shared a half of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics with Wilson, with the other half awarded to Pyotr Kapitsa for his work in low-temperature physics. Penzias was born in Munich, Germany, on 26 April 1933. At the age of six, Penzias and his family fled Nazi Germany, first to England…

Cosmic pioneers: Arno Penzias (left) and Robert Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave background in the 1960s (Courtesy: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection) The cosmologist Arno Penzias, who discovered the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with Robert Wilson, died on 22 January at the age of 90. He shared a half of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics with Wilson, with the other half awarded to Pyotr Kapitsa for his work in low-temperature physics. Penzias was born in Munich, Germany, on 26 April 1933. At the age of six, Penzias and his family fled Nazi Germany, first to England…

After my father died, my older sister and I stayed with my mother for a while. I couldn’t stop thinking of Grey Gardens, minus the fabulous headscarves; Big and Little Edie Beale kept winding their way through my head. It was a cruel comparison—as a trio of single women, I could have easily renamed us the House of Strong Minded, Powerful Women, as that is what we have always been, with or without my father. Unfortunately, it was too easy to think of all the negative images of women aging alone first: the jilted Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, exacting…

Winter in the northeast follows a predictable pattern. The season is rushed in the beginning, with snow-frosted holiday advertising out in full force before we even need to grab for the pair of gloves stuck in our coat pockets. Then, by February, the shine of the new year has worn off, and the novelty of plodding through sludge or scraping the ice from your car or, worse, layering as many chunky sweaters and blankets as you can to weather the cold inside has long since faded. This stretch is the hardest. This is when time feels suspended, and I feel…