Category Fall 2025 Issue

I Lack Steam / I Lack Gumption 

I Lack Steam / I Lack Gumption  I call it like I see it how I know, it is to be true.  Tired out, sputtering like some sniveling automotive of the secondhand variety still revving up and ready to drive  as if to take petrol or blackmarket sludges oils  wounded by nothing, it leaps far above all competitors and preconceived wirings. (Is it all a figment of my imagination if I realize common mistakes in this logic only now?  How do you suppress the downtown junction? I certainly know I cannot. Banish all common thought this shred of doubt  Is it truly worth your while? I cannot make sense of this request.)  Automated frequencies  that soar beyond canine ears and off towards  something that allows astigmatisms to worsen:  Face the skyline to see the other buildings,  dozens.  Hope the glaring windows  look like stars when you squint.

Reproductive Rights and the Maternal Burden Upon Female French Immigrants in the “Paris” of the Present

With SA and forced sex affecting a vast majority of female immigrants who’ve landed in France, and the rarity of medical resources, it is important to consider the ramifications of so many layers of oppression upon the immigrant mother; as well as modern solutions taken by organizations such as La Maison des Femmes in providing solace and potential to a predominant urban population.

Palestine Solidarity and the Labor Movement

Since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, the Palestine solidarity movement has entered a new phase of energy and action. Despite the great battles of the student movement in this field, there is another theater we should look to: the struggle within the labor movement. This article explores the history of the relationship between Zionism and the establishment labor movement, and how Palestine solidarity can make its return to the U.S. labor movement.

Sudan’s Elimination

The ongoing civil war between the SAF and the RSF across Sudan seems to have a simple, surface-level narrative: the two military leaders are both vying for control over the state of Sudan. In actuality, the current conflict is ultimately an extension and intensification of an ongoing Sudanese state-building project, one that is both rooted in economic, political, and cultural marginalization of peripheral states, as well as by dominance and coercion from foreign actors.

Everything in numbers/a poem outta Granada

(I typed this up on a google doc leaving Granada, Spain this summer. The poem brings togetherdecolonial and political theory—e.g. Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism and HannahArendt’s “banality of evil”; the history of the Spanish Inquisition and its modern manifestations…

Decolonising Neuroscience

I am a neuroscientist. I study how memories are formed, how they guide our behavior. I study the ways they inform who we love, who we avoid, who we sleep with, who we befriend. But I don’t know what creative writing means anymore.