Naked and Unafraid by Lacey McLaughlin

Content warning: body shaming It was time to get naked and face the ugliest parts of myself. The water roared and the trees glowed, taking on a life of their own in the Costa Rican jungle. Howler monkeys surrounded us high in the treetops and birds sang. Every sound,...

The Time We Had by Susana Ramirez

The last memory I have of Cuba was from the back of a car, seeing my grandmother fade away. Had I known then what I know now, I would have held her a little tighter for a little longer. I would have begged her to come with us. Taken away from us too soon, my...

The Recycled Teacher by Jan McCarthy

When I was a child, and the weather prevented me careering up and down the street on my roller-skates, I spent hours in my bedroom, creating tiny books out of scrap paper held together with split pins. These were schoolbooks for my bears Big Ted and Little Ted, and...

Sweden’s So-so Tolerance of Sociolects by Ann Törnkvist

The editor sent me a message back, underlining a quote: “This is illogical.” My eyes narrowed, even though I was used to this subconscious intolerance of sociolect. Had the editor listened to the radio piece, rather than just skimming the script, she would have...

Give Me Myself Again by Kristin Jennifer

Content warning: sexual assault The night I was date raped, a little voice whispered as I dressed for the outing, Take your new glasses, in case you see Tim. I tucked the bronze wire frames in my denim jacket, then bounced. It was October 1998. I didn’t have a...

Neuro-atypical by Jan McCarthy

It has been suggested, by certain neuroscientists and psychologists I consider to be the Enlightened Ones, that neuro-atypicality is nature’s attempt to coax humanity into an evolutionary advance. I often wonder what different path human history might have taken...

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