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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 living-room coffee table
all tutu and headband and wand.
It is always time for dress-up
somewhere, she will reason, all chignon
and pantsuit-pretend,
and in the mirror will find shapes
where her eyes used to be.

About the Poet

Leigh Sugar is a writer and movement artist based in New York City. She previously edited The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing and is now curating and editing an anthology of writing by artists who have taught arts workshops in prisons. […]

Future Tenseadmin2017-12-15T20:25:28+00:00

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 the horizon
An eternally-absent quaking hand
The world is a corpse, but a living one

An eternally-smoking loaded gun
With motive supplied by the contraband
Haul, overflowing with moon & with sun

Horse hooves of the Cossacks trample no one
At all, with Russia’s 5,000-year plan—
The planet as a corpse (though a warm one)

Man beating a girl’s heart—Has he not done,
Heartfelt, the will of her staunchest command
(Tithing her body to moon & to sun) ?

The essence remains […]

THE PURSUIT OF THE MILLENNIUMadmin2021-09-26T14:19:50+00:00

Beyond Non-Discrimination: A Critical Examination of School Safety, Support, and Inclusion of Transgender Youth

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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 and visibility for transgender, gender independent, and gender non-conforming identities in a school context and explores the production of social norms to maintain systems of categorization and homogeneity throughout a school climate. This larger work includes actions taken by a number of schools within a small case study to address the value of recognition and the right of all students […]

Beyond Non-Discrimination: A Critical Examination of School Safety, Support, and Inclusion of Transgender Youthadmin2017-12-15T20:33:17+00:00