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Volume 4: Issue 1

Fall 2026

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On the cover: Bonnie Lucas, Untitled, 1978–79

Contents

DEPARTMENTS

Editor’s Letter 4.1
Poetry Comment 4.1
Close Encounters
Domestic Violence: Bonnie Lucas
  
Crit
Cut It Out
Redux
Man, Woman, Country, Uncountry
  
Excerpt
Adoption Unfiltered
  
Streaming Now
Pleasure Principle: Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed
  
Personal Essay
Rachel Pollack, Tarot, and Me
  
Primary Source
A Feminist Defense of Transgender Sex Equality Rights
  
Poetry
“Only Witches” and “Reunions”
  

REVIEWS

Hite Hype

“The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report” by Rosa Campbell

Our Kinda Place

“The Lesbian Bar Chronicles: The Living History and Hopeful Future of America’s Dyke Dives and Sapphic Spaces” by Rachel Karp

Novelesque

“Life of M: A Novel” by Rachel Cusk

Face Time

“Selling Opportunity: The Story of Mary Kay” by Mary Lisa Gavenas

Talking Back

“No! The Art and Activism of Complaining” by Sara Ahmed

Two Lives

“Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me” by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

Stein Way

“My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction” by Deborah Levy

Depths

Reina Sugihara at the Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027

Oh, Mary!

“The Body of Mary: A Play in Three Acts (of God)” written and directed by Katie Cappiello

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