Category: PRIDE 2025
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the singularity of love is the infinity of now
Edited by Alloe Mak, Oliver Francis Baker, and Annika Budhwani When I began to love her, I folded the crumpled chopstick wrappers that sat idle on our dinner table and crafted two paper rings. It was too early to tell her, but the words teased at the creases in my lips, daring me to say…
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Exhibition
Edited by Alloe Mak, Alyssa Zhang, and Sasha Rose Penwarden The start of the summer of my life is, ironically, brought to a steady intermission by the beginning of summer break. A few weeks ago, I was smoking a cigarette in a tree, dancing away my academic stresses and sobbing from all my self-imposed upsets…
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notes from the in-between
Edited by Alloe Mak androgyny is a tricky term that contradicts itself. it is the absence of feminine and masculine traits, it is a combination of both. it is anything suitable for either sex, it is the reversal or obscuring of gender roles. it is something i strive to embody—an ideal i barely comprehend. aristophanes’…
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The Butch Bar
Take me to the room where there is no violence. Where the music is loud & the laughter is louder, Where peach-pink lipstick stains blue-collared shirts, Where the girls can be boys & the boys are not angry. Let’s go, You & I, Down to the Butch Bar, Where the drink of most choice is…
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How to Use the Fruit Machine: A Guide for Those Working in Service of Our Great Nation
Edited by Alloe Mak During the Red Scare of the 1960s, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) worked on developing a “fruit machine,” their colloquial term for several different experiments used to identify homosexuals under government employ. These included questioning, pupil dilation tests and pseudoscientific lie detectors. What follows is an instruction manual for the…
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Reflection
Edited by Alloe Mak I’ve watched as the queer community has been painted as a beacon of hope, a sign of home, and a sign of life pulsing prominently through the chest of society. I think that I spent a lot of my life trying to find this form of understanding—trying to find someone who…
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the monsters are always queercoded
Edited by Liam Mason They say I was born with claws coming out of my neck. I don’t believe them. In fact, I think the idea is rather ugly. I like to imagine how exactly I came to be, sometimes, when I’m lonely and scared and alone. All crumbled up like an old newspaper, cast…
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why quantum mechanics is the best description of my gender
Edited by Alloe Mak To simplify it in as few words as possible, quantum mechanics is the study of matter at the atomic level. It is widely known as an incomprehensible topic of physics—those who go to sleep understanding quantum mechanics will likely wake up confused once again. Despite its fundamental nature, it is a…
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Chicken Alfredo Pasta
Edited by Alloe Mak and Liam Mason He used to make it for me when I would go over on Friday nights. Now that we live together, he makes it when I can’t get out of bed. The apartment smells like garlic, cream, fettuccine, and parmesan clinging to each other. His hands smell like thyme…
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achilles on skyros; forty-niners in drag
Edited by Alloe Mak 753 BCE There are no women in Rome. Romulus built the city with vagabonds and criminals scattered across Latium, and he settled with them on a hill. But there are no women in Rome, and this is a problem. The vagabonds and criminals cannot birth an empire themselves. So, Romulus hosts…
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who’s afraid of queerness?
queer. a bruise-purple word. a sticky syllable clinging to the edge of my tongue. what did you mean when you danced in the dark corners of language? perhaps the off-kilter paintings in a gallery, or the poems that refuse to rhyme, or the sculptures made from found objects. did you mean the love that dares…