A Prayer for Hugh Manatee
byby Sarah Penello In 1493, Christopher Columbus logged what is believed to be the first recorded sighting of Manatees in the new world. Of…
by Sarah Penello In 1493, Christopher Columbus logged what is believed to be the first recorded sighting of Manatees in the new world. Of…
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.
by Frida Futurefeatured image is Frida Future (2021) Over the summer, I did an artist residency in Florida with my dear friend and longtime…
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.
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.