Poetry Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Note to the Young Doctor by Heather Cameron Note to the Young Doctor Doctor, oh doctor, doing your rounds, Your voice carries when you walk the ward. We lopped off the breast, you say to the students, Who nod and scribble and scurry around. There you are, an arborist in some parallel universe, Carelessly lopping the branches from trees. Dis-en-gage, dis-en-gage, dis-en-gage, I chant to myself in three four time. Lit-tle-pup. Lit-tle-pup. Lit-tle-pup. How are you today, you ...
Read MorePoetry Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 A Boy with Cerebral Palsy by Carol Casey A Boy with Cerebral Palsy It means more when it doesn’t come easy, when there’s a glimmer of somebody home, groping toward a common humanity through tangled hallways hung with scars. In universal language you toss out party-favor pieces of yourself before again submerging into silicon. And we must learn the braille of the tensing and letting go of your twisted frame that we try so hard to unravel ...
Read MorePoetry Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Two Poems by Tanasha Martin Voice It is raw. Purpled and chafed thin, worn and warned. It denotes mere meemies before white coats: ++++++++another Medicaid queen to diagnose. It is tight. Squeezed fingers dig with nails that pierce the silence and trust that whatever pain I’m in, ++++++++it’s better than treatment in this skin. It is sore. It has hollered and howled, generations of harvests and fibroids and is now a high-pitched white noise— ++++++++bloody murder into the void. It is silent. On ...
Read MorePoetry Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Two Poems by Joan Doran The Discharge Planner’s Very Bad Day OK you may have rights but I have Rules. Don’t fix exhausted eyes on me, you ancient pleading dog. OK, we dragged you by the scruff, we counted all your lagging steps to prove you strong enough to get out of here— you don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here. Here’s a list: pick one, go there— where’s not our business. But hey, old dog We petted ...
Read MoreArt Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Artist’s Statement by RC Barajas Guiding by RC Barajas With Her Puzzles by RC Barajas he woman in these two photos was my mother, and it’s the trajectory of her life, really, that tells a tale of bias. After graduating from Tufts in 1946, she was denied admission to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy by the dean, who clearly stated that this was in order to ...
Read MoreArt Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Artist’s Statement by Rhonda Nunn Self-Portraits by Rhonda Nunn grew up in a large family on Chicago’s South Side with eight brothers and sisters, including a twin brother. I knew from a very young age that I wanted to make people smile, and that I needed to find a way to make a career out of that desire. My father bought me a small camera when ...
Read MoreArt Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Artist’s Statement by Bryant L. Jones s a lifelong Chicagoan, my goal as an artist is simply to bring beauty to this city and anywhere else the Heavenly Father has blessed me to touch. I believe art is a catalyst for breaking down barriers. Combining positive communication with bright, bold colors and portraits can spark uncomfortable but necessary conversations to push not only minds, but also ...
Read MoreNonfiction Issue #6: Bias November 20th, 2020 November 20th, 2020 Nonfiction A Letter to Aunt C About Depression | Jeanine DeHoney Epistemic Injustice Is the Problem We’ve Been Overlooking | Leah Rosen A Woman’s Pain | Karen Mann When Our Hearts Become the Sky | Michael Riordan Erosion | Susan Hall
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