Literary


  • Resisting Gender Oppression throu...

    Resisting Gender Oppression through Comedy   The performativity of gender and gender stereotypes are enforced through society as a systematic device to classify and oppress all views that are not part of the dominant, masculine paradigm. ...

    by: cayladawn

  • Progressive Female Representation...

    Progressive Female Representation in Comedy By Lauren Kaplan In the past century, comedy has transitioned from being a tool for social control and repression, to a form of rhetoric used to direct attention to disparities between minority and nor...

    by: laur3nK

  • Cultural Competence of the "Other"

    This is a piece addressing the issues of abjection and otherness in mainstream society. The need to enhance cultural competence comes from being aware of the existing social construction of "norms." The essay assesses these aspects and reinforces the...

    by: mollytarn

  • The Consequences of Queer Alliance

    The Consequences of Queer Alliance In Leslie Feinberg’s book Stone Butch Blues the main character Jess Goldberg struggles through life seesawing between perceived transsexualism, transgenderism and homosexuality. In mainstream society these...

    by: jaclynF28

  • there is rebirth and then there i...

    I am stagnant.  I am unmoving, unfeeling.  Which is a lie.  Like telling yourself you’re broken, because you feel less whole.  But it’s thought.  That is how thought works, like unconnected spindles.  Lik...

    by: nommo

  • What the Soul is

    Soul is the furniture in my waiting room: barbed wire argyle couch, end tables made of MG wire hubcaps, a 60 watt brown sugar lamp with chain mail pull cord—overheated into molasses puddle, drained into ears and nose, a terrible head col...

    by: LeHast

  • Modern fanaticism is a different...

     First, there is the material she uses: all her two-dimensional work — posters, woodcuts, charcoal drawings — is in black and white. The unartistic world that our eye perceives is ‘black and white’ only metaphorically, bu...

    by: molly

  • This leaves us, in the void of ou...

    This leaves us, in the void of our everyday lives, confined to the passive state of playing the role imposed by second nature, keeping our essential powers and the longing for a beautiful life hidden away under the required mask. The mask has grown f...

    by: molly

  • It means that the human essence...

     The first is what this book discusses as rejection. It is a moment when the confidence in our essence gathers enough strength to burst into the open, in spite of the power of the given, which is inimical to it. The other response to our contrad...

    by: molly

  • the deceit, the fraud, and the na...

      the rounding of the curve the angle of the cornering there was an imperfection in your stride, a certain swerve not the ambling of relaxed inhibition, but an intentional resetting of your course   the belie-ing of the origin&n...

    by: ecwthe2nd

  • Freedom is Not Free

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    by: RSmag

  • Masters (various)

    Perfect relationships exists in heaven When I walk into the bizarre Avoiding conflict with a full time job The character becomes you We’re a revolving door trading in shadows for the ghost of Einstein  but the glass is on the outsid...

    by: gumgee

  • Pooled

    Make the light/break the hieroglyph falling instead an angel Boys through girls in secret codes in shape twisted Almost terror and hallway alone Party night/spring rite assassination submerged Tigers in afterthought or days of the week Killi...

    by: gumgee

  • Remembrance

    Things are swept to the side marginalized One could consider the alternative alive, instead of wandering too Seeing around suspects one  a thousand daggers alike preparing upstart covers cloning networks along the road Practiced guilt&n...

    by: gumgee

  • deliverance

    It was the beginning conflict] throughout the history of civilization had there ever been a moment to give rise to such a singular individual as this? Without the presence of time to hold him back all things were possible now. Having a point of...

    by: gumgee

  • About King Lous XVI of France and...

    God, help us, we are too young to reign. We were thrust upon this world not yet ready for its harsh tounge and ugly face Father, help us, we are too young to reign. Come back so I will not have this burden Mother, why did you concieve me? ...

    by: MN29

  • Remembrance

    Long ago my love I said with no hesitation but only do kings and queens find shelter in ignorance you replied and many ships will find their way to shore but never leave   Another halo descends on an ungrateful head....

    by: MN29

  • when I was mad and tore apart a f...

    It falls apart so easily Gentle at the seams I took out the middle and tore it apart Scattered, misused, destroyed   Too angry to compromise, walk away, endlessly...

    by: MN29

  • the king who yells at stars

    The king laughs at his kingdome But not at what he has created The absence of in the civilians creats thge guant stars "Wretched," he screams "the stars do not smile like they used to."...

    by: MN29

  • one midnight night where I could ...

    She consumes her self  with body and soul Over used and tired of the same lifeless heavens She hides beneatha  hollow and synthetic night endused by false realities And the disordered exsistance on the floor Surpressing the actualit...

    by: MN29

  • Creature

      Creature, I have you Creature, I have you in memory Creature,  I want to be lost in the ocean Creature, you are unfamiliar Creature, I tried  ...

    by: MN29

  • 3,000 Apple Blossoms

    The well suited space invader does indeed know what time it is "time is precious" he/she/it whispers to the ground And 3,000 apple blossoms burst from the ground Each one encased in their own glass atmosphere for future reference "Better thi...

    by: MN29

  • What's in a name? Arab Spring and...

    The protests, demonstrations, and uprisings that transpired in the Middle East earlier this year, referred to as the Arab Spring, were a groundswell reaction to many social maladies taking place in the region: dictatorships, human rights abuses, an...

    by: hannamarie

  • loveless and bleeding

    Djambi rock song from back in the day.     (Loveless and bleeding )    Sadness  and madness, angry at the world, for the pearl of wisdom has been lost for you.     Loveless and bleeding, I lost the need for...

    by: Blaise3

  • Poem

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    by: Jewell

  • Hitting Kohls

    Hitting Kohls   Trent spent eight years in community college. His parents told him he needed to get into a university and move on to better things instead of working at McDonalds, getting into trouble, and going in and out of the psychiatric...

    by: calvinseen

  • chose wisely.

    for thisyou must take care of and protect good thingsyou cannot hold things that you love at arms lengthfor once you realize this is what you are doingthey will be goneyou can say the angry words that need outyou cannot say them again and againyou ca...

    by: kdash

  • in between

    i had a dream last night that we were fine better than fine - we were perfect and i knew in that distant soft place that we were meant to be and then i woke up and fell hard back to my bed i cried fast  i cried cold  tears and i ...

    by: kdash


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