Queerness & Sacred Ritual In Community: This piece was inspired by an Indigenous People’s Day’s event at CSU Stanislaus. One of the guests at the event is an indigenous, non-binary, poet that is illustrated in the middle.
I told you that I had trouble feeling special
living in our patriarchal, capitalist world
I do not meet the beauty standards
not even halfway there
yet you called me beautiful once
and I believed it
but how many other girls believe in the same lie like me?
Humorously relatable, Molly Knox Ostertag’s The Girl From the Sea tells a coming-of-age story about Morgan, a teenage girl discovering herself through an unexpected connection with a sea girl named Keltie.
