Mask: The Woo Issue

Pick a Card Death doula Roxanne Baker and nurse and community health worker Saralee Gallien in conversation about death. Photo: Ada Banks.
Fight Like Hell for the Living Izzy Nastasia visited Mitchyll Mora and Reina De Aztlan who pack courts and commissaries for people facing incarceration.
No Turning Back Melissa Mesku recalls that one time she stood face to face with tens of thousands of Bush supporters.
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Guns at the Pool Party

by Geoff Mak

The yoni egg is a crystal, polished and carved into a tapered sphere, that one inserts into the vagina to reclaim one’s “sacred pussy powers.”

The Goddess Inside: Testing the Magic of the Yoni Egg

by Aiden Arata

Yatta Zoker

The State of Utah has labeled the land “multiple use,” but what besides mine can one do on a desolate strip mine? Well, a few things: feel lost, plant seeds, get arrested, and fall in love.

Love and Tar on the Tavaputs Plateau

by Easton Smith

The Personal Things Trans elder Miss Major Griffin-Gracy tells the story of when she decided to stop trying to assimilate.

Spirit Said Yes! YATTA’s unleashes ghosts and cyborg fantasies on her debut EP.

Digital Illusion GOLD: New mix by DJ Internet Visions' gleams trough the bleakness of now - for the "hopeless, hopeful, half-dead humans and non-humans".

Peripheral Gaze

Fighting spirit, working hands The Chicago Police Department called Lucy Parsons more dangerous than a thousand rioters.

After her mother’s death, Cynthia Schemmer spent hours watching Long Island Medium, in which Theresa Caputo talks to the dead. Then she decided to seek out a spirit guide of her own.

The Elements of the In-Between

I hugged him and asked, “Are you my new father?” This was my father’s first interaction with melanin – he, a son not far from his Nazi roots, trying to raise two little black girls in the country during hunting season.

Nocturnal Omissions

by Bobby T Luck

Horoscopes by Corina Dross

November 2016

Amid the current political climate, the sun moves through Scorpio urging us to seek what is obscured and if we need to let go - just fall apart. In this state, we understand that we are never finished and we are never neutral

No Brow by Jaime Chu

How to Thrive in Solitude

““The voice in Pond is a woman whose sure sense of self – one with a principled fluidity – comes from thriving in solitude, which isn’t to say in isolation.” Jaime Chu reviews Claire Louise-Bennett’s Pond.

Witchy Business Here are some of our favorite online stores for potions, herbs, candles, and other witchery.

Letters by Hanna Hurr

This Is Make-Believe

When the whole world is make-believe, our awareness of death and the impossibility of a life worth living can be a villain’s superpower.

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