feminism

An image of Megan Fox from Jennifer's Body projected on a white curtain, with flames across the bottom of the screen and "come home, steamy love" in yellow text across the bottom.

Fiery Swallowed Rage

I’m laying down in a fetal position, knocked out by pain. Saliva drips from my mouth and I’m on the verge of passing out. I’ve taken a mix of random painkillers and they’re finally hitting. The pain stops; I have a mini orgasm.

A diptych of two images of plants coming through concrete. On the left side, a purple pansy comes up through a crack in a cement sidewalk, pictured from the side, with the sidewalk edge at a diagonal across the screen with street asphalt visible in front. On the right, A small treelike plant comes up through a hole in a concrete sidewalk, next to a metal grille gate surrounding an enclosed area and some garbage cans. The edge of the sidewalk and the edge of the gate from the first and second images meet at a point in the middle of the composition.

Normality

During the Corona time, I have been hearing the word “Normalität” almost daily in the news: the eagerness to return to “normality.” The following poem is a small glimpse of my normality.

Beginning, Middle (Age), End: script notes and revisions

A large Melbourne downtown strip club. 3am. Thursday. The year is 2005. 90’s r’n’b plays. Lights change rhythmically. A woman is at work.

Collective Herbal Healing: A Counter-archive in the Making

Research is a dirty word—not because it has to be but because those who often wield the levers of power make it that way. As a historian, I often struggle…

A series of tree branches lit with flash in the dark.

“I Hunt Men at Night” // “Pretentious Bitch”

I Hunt Men at Night I hunt men at night keeping pace and following close in tandem step footsteps swallowed in his echoes pausing at crossings going against the…

LUCKY

Everything in life is luck, or so we’ve heard. If you work hard, you will succeed—you just need to wait for your big break and play your cards right. Success…

Full-framed portrait of a woman with brown hair and red lipstick standing outside in the sun. She is smiling big and her eyes are squinting. In the background, there is a clear blue sky and folks hanging out recreationally on a grassy field with trees in the distance.

Jes Walsh on being a doula: care, queers, and reproductive rights

Jes Walsh is a zine-maker, the co-facilitator of the now-defunct queer space “Boys Club” in Berlin, and a doula. We asked Jes some questions about what it means to be…

A tableau of books, blocks, anal toys, plugs, beads and lube are arranged against a wall. One book has a view of someone’s bare behind with the title “ANAL PLEASURE & HEALTH” visible. Another title reads “BECAUSE WE LIKE IT HOT” overlaid on a book cover of someone’s thighs, butt, and torso in a top and underwear. Above a block, a pink pin stating “I [graphic of a butt plug] anal” rests against a bottle of lube.

How to Love the Butt (w)hole: Probing Deeper with Berlin’s Sex Educators, Part II

When COVEN BERLIN announced their ASSHOLES digital issue, I realized I had a lot of holes in my knowledge of the butt. I decided the best answers to my sensitive…

On a tabletop by a lit window and an indoor plant, seven brightly-colored dildos and anal toys all with flared-bases are placed on various coasters, blocks of wood, and CD cases. There is a framed print in red-ink behind the toys of a person and the “female” sign that reads “WE ARE IN CHARGE”.

How to Love the Butt (w)hole: Probing Deeper with Berlin’s Sex Educators, Part I

When COVEN BERLIN announced our ASSHOLES digital issue, I realized I had a lot of holes in my knowledge of the butt. I decided the best answers to my sensitive…