the confessions (and concessions) of someone who wears flares
Thea Nawal considers how taste and style dually operate to intimate or emulate social privilege. She explores the implicit classism behind the facetious claim that skinny jeans are ‘uncool’, aiming to highlight her own complicity in endorsing class stratification during her time at university
mango girl
in this poem, Paola Lindo explores the intersection between nature and womanhood, specifically, how both the rich resources of her homeland and its female bodies are consumed, warped, and forced to callously continue existing in a world that does not conduce to their thriving, while also forcing them to find strength from within.