Blog Voices from Our Community
Read stories, updates, and reflections from artists, staff, and survivors. Here, we share the heart of Awakenings — one post at a time.
& suddenly yesterday I stopped being twenty. I am tired of being found alive. It was night a minute ago. I keep losing my head
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You lie still when he finishes. He doesn’t say anything at first. Just stills his hands and pulls back. He sits up. I’m sorry. I
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I know a woman who knows what it means to be held down by ten boys and raped repeatedly, who didn’t tell anyone for twenty
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The Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center is quiet. It is too quiet after the sobs and the sirens and most of all the loudest sound
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You are dressed and ready to go. The radio is on, as well as certain strategic lights. As you check that all windows and doors
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I don’t remember the weather or what I had for breakfast, but I remember my outfit: a pastel sweater of green, pink, and yellow with
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My life became pure fiction A statistic of Whether I can show my legs I have to remind myself it wasn’t my legs That were
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T.m. Lawson is a poet and a writer living in California. They are currently attending UCSD, working on their Creative Writing M.F.A. They’ve been published
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2 July, 0125 Young vivacious voices sang in the next room A church choir rejoiced on TV Their singing echoed in my head as if
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Jessica Nirvana Ram recently graduated with a BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University in May 2018. Jessica has written poetry since learning the malleability
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Julian née Sara Mithra hovers between genre and gender, border mongering and mongreling. At local festivals, they exhibit handmade chapbooks and cut-up zines. Read their
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when i wore that dress to his birthday party, what i was trying to say was don’t stick your hand down my dress. that’s what
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I was Doomed from the day of conception Poisoned while still in the womb Lost my cherry to daddy at 4 He’d creep in my
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Sarah Lawrence is an English student at the University of Michigan and recently completed a first collection of short stories. Sarah has a background in
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Images downloading like new software From the net, Cocks, fists, belts, needles, screams, flames, noise! Real and not real, Happening and not. NO, NO, NO,
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Agnieszka Krajewska is a poet, essayist, and combat epistemologist. She received an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 2004, and was
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