Fall 2016.
Content
“Behind Bars”
GAL COHEN
“Things that Tear”
DOMENIC SCOPA
“Mother and Daughter”
GAL COHEN
“Liberal Motherhood”
HAYLEY WAGNER
“Diminution, 185”
SARA FIELDS
“The Legacy of the Female Factory”
SHARON WILLDIN
“Self Portrait with a Black Eye”
GAL COHEN
“Dear FAA”
HANNAH ROGERS
“Beyond Non-Discrimination”
J.M. BENDETT
“Frozen Conventional Blueberries”
MATTHEW DISCHNER
“A ‘Peculiar Type of Fear’”
IAN KENNEDY
“No Stealing”
SHELBY POOR
“The Pursuit of the Millenium”
JAMES BRADLEY
“Fighting Narratives”
SIGRID VON WENDEL
“Nostalgie II”
TOM PAZDERKA
“Future Tense”
LEIGH SUGAR
Masthead
Senior Editors
LESLIE FRANCIS MICHAELS
editor-in-chief
ANGELINA EIMANNSBERGER
editorial director
OLIVIA MURPHY-BOYLE
art editor
KATHERINE V. SEGER
fiction editor
JOANNA TOVA PRICE
nonfiction editor
ARIEL CHAFFIN
poetry editor
Associate Editors
Alex Adam
Kaitlin Crow
Whitney Davis
Matt Dischner
Chelsea Gizzi
Michelle Hurtubise
Marian Jones
Ian Kennedy
Nicole Lania
Milana Meytes
Paula O’Donnell
Merisa B. Sahin
Maya Singhal
Imani J’lessa Wallace
Sigrid von Wendel
“Glass ceiling” is a core metaphor of the feminist movement. It is worth noting that this ceiling is singular. But what of other ceilings? For different individuals and groups in our society, the glass ceilings are many and varied. Yet all of these ceilings help constitute each other. All of them are barriers to better lives.
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?
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.