The Spring/Break Wild Card and its prophecies
by Jana AstanovFeatured art work Sarah Nsikak, She Offered You a Garden, 2023 SPRING/BREAK, this year, has the feel of a utopian community get-together…
by Jana AstanovFeatured art work Sarah Nsikak, She Offered You a Garden, 2023 SPRING/BREAK, this year, has the feel of a utopian community get-together…
Though I wasn’t particularly religious, and had been a pro-choice feminist killjoy my entire life, I never thought that I would personally choose to get an abortion. But here I was, weeping on the bathroom floor, knowing that I stood before a crossroads where both paths ended in death.
feautred image Sarah Bereza Psillocybic Eucharist from The Art Rites of Passage article. 2021 was a great year at the CREATRIX Magazine Cosmic Love…
I often looked back on that night in the months that followed, and cried with gratitude at the romance and [what now seems like reckless] abandon with which we took to the night. A gaggle of beauties in faux-fur coats, cackling. Sharing spliffs and flasks, kissing one another on the cheek and taking up the whole sidewalk on our way to the show.
In our current society, the concept of sex is used to sell us absolutely everything, yet, it is illegal and highly-stigmatized for a consenting adult to “sell sex.” I personally believe that this is because those in power do not like it when us plebeians become the beneficiaries of our own labor. Our bodies are theirs to exploit, how dare we?
When she received clients, she felt connected to the vast lineages of temple priestesses, light workers and sacred prostitutes who had come before her. The powerful women who assumed the daunting task of healing traumatized men through the only language they understood- sexual release.
She turned her attention to me one last time, pushing me hard against the old stones to look deeply into my eyes. Her pale green irises seemed especially bright against the wet, black lashes.
“Merci,” she said, her features softening. And then she released me.