Women and Non-binary people of color have often been overlooked by film, books, and music, yet their communities are strong. Here are a few fun Instagram accounts that celebrate the darker things in life.
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Imaginary Boyfriends Once Inhabited My Imaginary Homeland
Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician and writer whose work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Awl, jellyfish review, aaduna and elsewhere, with poetry forthcoming in Natural Bridge, apt magazine and Hobart. Her poetry and prose juxtapose Hindu epics, other myths and histories, and the survival of sexual harassment and racialized sexual violence by diverse women of color. She recently received the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a Henfield award for her writing. Her work received four Pushcart Prize anthology nominations this year. Follow her on Twitter at @chayab77 including for upcoming readings and events.
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Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World
Tabitha Blankenbiller is a Pacific University MFA grad living outside of Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Catapult, Narratively, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, and a number of other venues. Her debut essay collection EATS OF EDEN is forthcoming from Alternating Current Press in March 2018.
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The Power of Listing Things in Reverse
... a way to document my personal progress...
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If You Love Twin Peaks, This Is Your Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide
Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016) and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). Joanna received a MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, a managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM, as well as an instructor at Brooklyn Poets. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, Apogee, Spork, The Feminist Wire, BUST, and elsewhere.
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@thewildflowerpower's Cynthia Figueroa on Instagram, Succulents, and Winter Gardening
... @thewildflowerpower is a vibrant archive of green things..
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Lit & Fashion: Miss Havisham and Her Haunted Dress
...Miss Havisham’s dress has become her shroud...
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Witchy World Roundup - September 2017
Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Sexting the Dead (Unknown Press, 2017) & Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016), and is the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is the founder of Yes, Poetry and the managing editor for Civil Coping Mechanisms and Luna Luna Magazine. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, BUST, Spork Press, and elsewhere. Joanna also leads workshops at Brooklyn Poets. joannavalente.com / Twitter: @joannasaid / IG: joannacvalente
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How I Ritual With My Writer Friends
I have learned to write and submit with more confidence...
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Via Pure Film Creative
Creeper Crate: Campy Fun Box for Horror Babes
...fun and camp and glamour and a whole lot of anticipation.
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Alternative Gardens: 7 WOC Talk Wellness, Ritual, and Artist Identity
...in the flowers of their intersectional feminism
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Brown Is Boss: Poet and Zinester, Alma Rosa Rivera of Frijolera Press
"We exchanged energy and it was definitely a trade I’m grateful for."
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When There's a Room for Rent
Calin Van Paris is a reader who somehow became a writer. She writes about beauty for Vogue.com, fashion for Allure.com, and travel and lifestyle for the local magazine that gave her a start. She writes copy about sweaters for a Bay Area brand.
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Motherhood & Love Post-Divorce
Lee Taylor is a writer, musician and light worker raising two children in Brooklyn, NY. She has an MFA in creative writing from The New School and spent the past six years living and blogging in Switzerland. Her essay “The Patron” was recently published in the inaugural print edition of Hofstra University’s literary journal, Windmill. She was also featured in the March issue of Bodega, an online literary magazine.
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Talking with Editor Molly Tolsky on Her New Lifestyle Brand & Unpopular Opinions
Molly Tolsky gets stuff done. She's an editor extraordinaire: She was a former editor at Kveller (a women's site focused on Jewish parenting) and is also currently the senior editor for No Tokens (a literary magazine). But now, she's started another lifestyle brand: Alma. The official site just launched today, which is, as the site says, "for ladies with chutzpah."
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