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Summer 2018
An issue on gender and power
Devorah Baum reads Grace Paley to find out what women want
Stella Duffy looks for LGBT voices in the #MeToo debate
Fernanda Eberstadt remembers the 70s drag scene in New York
Debra Gwartney breaks her silence
Ottessa Moshfegh gets what she wants
TaraShea Nesbit revisits her lost childhood
Brittany Newell deconstructs Paris Hilton’s sex tape
Lisa Wells on the process of revisiting trauma
New fiction from: Tara Isabella Burton, Paul Dalla Rosa, Sally Rooney, Miriam Toews, Zoe Whittall and Leni Zumas
A comic by Tommi Parrish
Poetry by Momtaza Mehri and Fiona Benson
And photoessays by Sébastien Lifshitz and Tomoko Sawada, introduced by Andrew McMillan and Sayaka Murata
Cover artwork by Tommi Parrish
From this Issue
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I Bite My Friends
Fernanda Eberstadt
‘The Easter Parade is winding down, when I spot Him. Her. Them. The Apparition.’
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Women Talking
Miriam Toews
‘When we have liberated ourselves, we will have to ask ourselves who we are.’
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Telling My Story
Stella Duffy
‘I wonder if they could all smell the queer on me, the queer in me, the burgeoning sexuality that I had no words for at the time.’
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Cross-Dressers
Sébastien Lifshitz & Andrew McMillan
‘These images appear to give a glimpse of a ghost-self, a photographic negative of the heart.’ Andrew McMillan introduces photography curated by Sébastien Lifshitz.
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Comme
Paul Dalla Rosa
‘Because I spent a large amount of time convincing people to buy clothing they would never actually wear, it was easy to convince myself the same.’
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Abscessed Tooth
Debra Gwartney
‘Silence allows me to pretend that this happened to someone else a long time ago, and not to me.’
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See What You Do to Me
TaraShea Nesbit
‘My intention was to protect myself, and not to have to go back on my word.’
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That
Leni Zumas
‘Members of the committee, I am bitter, it’s true. But this doesn’t change the facts.’
