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Jellybean Comix by Grae Salisbury – Week 5

January 31, 2020January 2, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Grae Salisbury is a queer human living with vulvodynia, anxiety, a jungle of lovely house plants, and their adorable partner. Grae describes drawing Jellybean Comix as a practice of processing …

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Panic Attack

January 27, 2020January 26, 2020 - Leave a Comment

It starts out quiet.Terror muffles my earsWords, black smudgesHeartbeat faster and fasterAir thinner and thinner. Thoughts as fish in a river,Classmates becoming blobs of colorsForced into captivity,I exit the room. …

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Jellybean Comix by Grae Salisbury – Week 4

January 24, 2020January 2, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Grae Salisbury is a queer human living with vulvodynia, anxiety, a jungle of lovely house plants, and their adorable partner. Grae describes drawing Jellybean Comix as a practice of processing …

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Stories of Apocalypse, or Survival Fantasies by Audrey Carroll

January 20, 2020January 11, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Advantage: I am a student of the Earth, reading old folklore about which herbs help rheumatism, investigating bird species and their usual habitat ranges. Understanding patterns doesn’t require anything but …

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Jellybean Comix by Grae Salisbury – Week 3

January 17, 2020January 2, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Grae Salisbury is a queer human living with vulvodynia, anxiety, a jungle of lovely house plants, and their adorable partner. Grae describes drawing Jellybean Comix as a practice of processing …

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I Do Not Talk About Spoons by Rachael Dickzen

January 13, 2020January 11, 2020 - Leave a Comment

They say a person with chronic illness only has so many spoons to get through each day. Each action, each sentence, each movement takes a spoon away, and when the …

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Jellybean Comix by Grae Salisbury – Week 2

January 10, 2020January 2, 2020 - Leave a Comment

Grae Salisbury is a queer human living with vulvodynia, anxiety, a jungle of lovely house plants, and their adorable partner. Grae describes drawing Jellybean Comix as a practice of processing …

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Features / Poetry

“Why can’t you sleep?”

January 6, 2020January 3, 2020 - Leave a Comment

There are blossoms in my chest Rolling off my breasts, feathering out from my sternum, violet, emerald, scarlet petals A garden of wildflowers is inside me Zara Hanif is a …

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Jellybean Comix
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Jellybean Comix by Grae Salisbury – Week 1

January 3, 2020January 2, 2020 - Leave a Comment

I’m happy to announce that we’re beginning our first comics series! Stay tuned for five weeks of comics by Grae Salisbury. Artist statement: Drawing comics is a means for me …

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Art by Eris Gentle

December 13, 2019December 13, 2019 - Leave a Comment

Artist statement: As a survivor of mental illness in my childhood and young adult life, I like to think that it was Nature that reached in and gave me a …

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