“If it bleeds, it leads,” goes the common saying in publishing. Considering this issue is Bodies, we decided to chill on that front. In this edition, we kept the shock out of shock value and let the words of our creators speak for themselves. Read More
Category: Bodies
Discover what our bodies have to say in the Bodies issue! Take time to reflect on the effects that culture, society, time and sexuality all have on our bodies. To get started, take a look at the Letter from the Editor/Table of Contents!
Flesh
The body is an elusive mistress that betrays me in my moments of deference—not just wholly for the loveliness of curving hips and a man’s defining muscles, but for my own horror of admiring, and at times even hesitantly defying, media’s perception of beauty. I am not talking about my reverence for the aforementioned curves and muscles. I am not talking of media’s bias towards the lanky, the fair-faced; a celebrity’s airbrushed features glorified in the latest edition of a magazine—no. Since I was twelve, I burdened a strange endearance for the wide and plush (not curvy) bodies bereft from media, and grew to love those types of bodies unconditionally notwithstanding the lack of confidence in my own. Read More
feel myself.
lately my sex drive is totally rampant and out of control and I have no idea what it is. Read More
Volumes in Colour
We as black women are blessed with an adorning of power. We are strong, because by being black we are forced everyday to go to war with the ideas that introduce themselves and proclaim who we are as black women before a word or formality ever slips out of our lips. Our skin speaks. We ask it to let our lips do the talking, but it cannot, its position coated in histories of melanin- is firm. Read More
Gay Macrophilia: A Sexual Fantasy of Great Proportions
I don’t always browse Tumblr, but when I do I’m always 1 click away from “weird sex tumblr” (WST)*. To see if you’re prone to this, go to Tumblr (it works best in a public place like a library or computer lab) and search for something innocent like “shoes”, “houses”, “Best anime to watch when you get stood up by your date again”. Within minutes of clicking around, you should find yourself in a place that will make you blush and hurriedly try to X out the screen as people start turning around and judging you. That’s when you know you’ve made it.
Anyway, I just so happened to have been transported to WST at home. Alone. And I stumbled on something that I found both erotic and fascinating and—if I were a nun—obscene. It was a man, the size of skyscraper, putting another man no bigger than his hand into his mouth. And that isn’t a euphemism for sucking cock.
Dude was legit about to devour little homie. Read More
sexualities
on my arched back
lie the consequences and trajectories
of branding myself a slut
before anyone else leaks my body. Read More
faking it.
1.
i have fallen in love, enough,
so that i do not parade with my lips
orange and gleaming, so that i do not
poof out my breasts, cheeks full of air.
the dark bits of me lay cleavaged
in contagion, exposed only to shame
and quick dirty peekaboos. Read More
On the Body, My Mind
TW: Dysphoria, racism, eating, mental health
Body.
Dark skin-light skin body. Unrecognizable body. Not-like-me body.
My father’s eyes body. Brown body. Mixed blood, mutt. Read More
The Infomercial
I.
You are looking at me with
empty brown eyes that want
to grasp me whole. and own
so i politely, rudely (it
depends on which of us is
more convincing) ignore you.
implore you to leave me. let
me go. but no, with your strong
hands you cut off my breath
and i am floating away out of
my person. my name is no
longer Elizabeth. I am no one’s
daughter. I have no sisters to
like or dislike. I do not read
Nabokov, Miller or Rowling (I
actually don’t read Rowling).
There are no contacts in my
phone. I am not a bored office
worker. I do not play at Banana
-grams, Sims, or sex. she does
not sleep. she is not me. But i
watch what you do to her.
Removing her sweater.
removing the pants.
removing the bra.
touching the breast.
touching the vagina.
touching yourself.
forcing yourself in.
forcing yourself off.
forcing it.
insisting upon that mouth.
insisting upon that rear.
insisting into it forcefully.
and it’s not me.
it’s not me.
it’s not me.
it’s not me.
II.
Built for your pleasure.
built without wants.
built with three holes.
built in lubrication in two.
very life-like, can be trained
to fight back or give in,
if you insist. Can take
multiple hits: Mild impact
during regular use, severe
impact during infrequent
use. you can use force.
life
-like. In brown, sepia, sunlight
and alabaster. easy to clean
with soap and water. lifetime
guarantee. trade in older models
for credit toward a newer
younger models, depending on
care. buy now and the second
time around will be easier!
all you pay
is shipping
and handling.