Genre: Our Bodies, Our Rights: Special Issue

Cerulean Walker

"I didn’t / even cry at books until this year, / let alone a world I don’t really even want to be a part of."

Elsa Valmidiano

"Now with the news all over the internet/you want to put me away/and call me a cursed woman./Can you now see why/I never told you?"

Adele Evershed

"don’t expect them to talk / of the suffering of women / they are not interested in the plight of the born"

N.M. Campbell

"The line went dead, and Gertrude slumped in her chair. She looked out the window, sighing. The leaves turned as the skies darkened over the Capitol."

Nicole Desjardins Gowdy

"Ophelia has words for her pain / she calls herself / survivor / she rises from the ashes of her former self"

Elsa Valmidiano

"I wasn’t exactly sure how abortions happened, except it was a word tossed around school grounds as easy as saying, 'Math.' It was an easy word. A common word."

Bibiana Krall

"This body is my universe, / but it has never been free."