Glass Ceilings
Glass ceilings pervade our culture, although they are often ignored. We must identify them in so that we might shatter preconceived notions that reinforce such despotic conditions. We must look both outward and inward. In this way, we will begin to know our personal and collective glass ceilings.
What’s your glass ceiling?
Contents
“Behind Bars”
by Gal Cohen
“Things that Tear”
by Domenic Scopa
“Mother and Daughter”
by Gal Cohen
“Liberal Motherhood”
by Hayley Wagner
“Diminution, 185”
by Sara Fields
“The Legacy of the Female Factory”
by Sharon Willdin
“Self Portrait with a Black Eye”
by Gal Cohen
“Dear FAA”
by Hannah Rogers
“Beyond Non-Discrimination”
by J.M Bendett
“Frozen Conventional Blueberries”
by Matthew Dischner
“A ‘Peculiar Type of Fear’”
by Ian Kennedy
“No Stealing”
by Shelby Poor
“The Pursuit of the Millenium”
by James Bradley
“Fighting Narratives”
by Sigrid Von Wendel
“Nostalgie II”
by Tom Pazderka
“Future Tense”
by Leigh Sugar
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editor in chief Leslie Francis Michaels
editorial director Angelina Eimannsberger
art editor Olivia Murphy-Boyle
fiction editor Katherine V. Seger
nonfiction editor Joanna Tova Price
poetry editor Ariel Chaffin
assistant editors
Alex Adam
Kaitlin Crow
Whitney Davis
Matt Dischner
Chelsea Gizzi
Michelle Hurtubise
Marian Jones
Ian Kennedy
Milana Meytes
Nicole Lania
Paula O’Donnell
Merisa B. Sahin
Maya Singhal
Imani J’lessa Wallace
Sigrid von Wendel
editor’s note
The term “glass ceiling” refers to the income gap between men and women, touted by white feminists with the following statistic: women make 77¢ for every $1 a man makes. However, it is not that [...]
Frozen Conventional Blueberries
By Matthew Dischner I punched a box today, a three dimensional rectangular prism made of cardboard and containing blueberries, twenty-four packages of frozen conventional blueberries to be exact, one of ten that arrived this morning [...]
Nostalgie II
Nostalgie II By Tom Pazderka Oil, charcoal and ashes on burned panel Tom Pazderka is an installation artist, painter, sculptor, teacher, and writer. He holds an MFA from the University of California Santa Barbara where [...]
Diminution, 185
Diminution, 185 By Sara Fields Photography Sara Fields is an artist and educator from Austin, Texas. She recently received her Masters of Fine Arts in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her [...]
No Stealing
No Stealing By Shelby Poor Format ink jet print. Shelby Poor was born and raised in the working-class neighborhoods of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She received her BFA in photography from the University of Tulsa in 2016 [...]
Mother and Daughter
Mother and Daughter By Gal Cohen Oil on woods, 90x120 cm Gal Cohen, a visual artist, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Born and raised in Israel (1986). Cohen is currently working on an MFA [...]
The Legacy of the Female Factory
By Sharon Willdin The Nurse’s Home, situated at the rear of Parramatta Hospital, stands four levels high against the banks of the river. The Registrar leads me up the stairs to the second floor and [...]
Self Portrait with a Black Eye
Self Portrait With A Black Eye By Gal Cohen Oil on wood, 30x40 cm Music from - "Guts Over Fear" - Eminem ft. Sia Gal Cohen, a visual artist, lives and works [...]
Dear FAA
By Hannah Star Rogers Dear FAA, This possibility really never occurred to me. I knew it could happen, but I assumed I would be at home. I pictured my own comforter, my own ringed tub. [...]
Liberal Motherhood: Abortion Rights, Race, and Individual Sovereignty
By Hayley Wagner No longer can abortion simply be talked about in terms of individual choice and morality—in a country where access varies from easy to impossible and where structural violence pervades society, the terms [...]
Behind Bars
Behind Bars By Gal Cohen Oil on canvas, 40x80 cm Gal Cohen, a visual artist, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Born and raised in Israel (1986). Cohen is currently working on an MFA at [...]
Things That Tear
Domenic Scopa is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the 2014 recipient of the Robert K. Johnson Poetry Prize and Garvin Tate Merit Scholarship.
A Peculiar Type of Fear
The houses across from and next to 2905 Garland Avenue in eastern Detroit have plywood nailed over their broken windows. According to the 2010 census, this neighborhood is overwhelmingly black. In 1925, demographics were drastically different when Dr. Ossian Sweet moved into that same house.
FIGHTING NARRATIVES: AGENCY, GENDER, AND JIHAD IN THE GAZA STRIP
Fighting Narratives: Agency, Gender, and Jihad in the Gaza Strip By Sigrid von Wendel Women living in Palestine can encounter a range of oppressions. On the one hand, there is the force of Israel, backed [...]
Future Tense
Poet Leigh Sugar "Future Tense" Helen will practice gestures to quiet the futures she promised herself as a child: I will one day be a police- officer or a princess, she’d committed, standing on the [...]
THE PURSUIT OF THE MILLENNIUM
The Pursuit of the Millennium By James Bradley The world is a corpse, but a living one, Hopeful, embalming itself for the land Sharing its casket with moon & with sun Stands Transcendence just o’er [...]
Beyond Non-Discrimination: A Critical Examination of School Safety, Support, and Inclusion of Transgender Youth
Author By J.M. Bendett Abstract This paper is part of a larger work focusing on the safety and support of transgender students in private schools throughout New York City. The greater work centers the recognition [...]
Special thanks to Sukhdev Sandhu and Kimon Keramidas for their continued support; to Nicole Pandolfo and Joanna Kendall Byrne for their invaluable assistance.
Anamesa is a semiannual journal funded by the following entities of New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Humanities and Social Thought, and the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.