By: Hasheemah Afaneh August 12, 2019November 10, 2019 CULTURE, POETRY & PROSEfeatured, micro aggressions, palestine1 Comment

FWD: Lament The Microaggressions

Some of my colleagues and I received an e-mail from the Diversity and Inclusion committee at my workplace, also my alma mater, titled “FWD: Policy on microaggressions”, asking for feedback. I read the few pages, and all the microaggressions my family, my friends, and I have been subject to (and we too may subject those…

By: Alyssa Proulx June 15, 2019November 10, 2019 OPINION, WOMEN'S HEALTHbody shaming, featuredLeave a Comment

I Need To Be Thin: A Psychosocial Perspective

Of all the women I’ve known and loved, there is an underlying effort that is, for the most part, unsaid. Among the bravest of us, a few voices on body-image dissatisfaction have started to ring in the air and find their place in the research and literature around the pressure for women to be thin.…

By: Prathigna Yerakala May 29, 2019November 10, 2019 CULTUREfeaturedLeave a Comment

The Perfect Percent

On red hot mornings, we drink masala chai. As the sun rises, we rise with it. Vendors trudge through the bustling streets with a vigor unlike any other. The sound of car horns and restless rush hour victims echo through the ivory walls. Downstairs, my aunts are ringing bells inside the pooja room and the…

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WHO ARE WE? Reclamation Magazine is a digital publication committed to amplifying the voices of the marginalized. We attempt to give the communities and the people whose perspectives have been cast off in the mainstream a platform to express themselves — to showcase their vulnerability, to stand tall in the face of adversity, and to…

Garden Gulp

By: Gina Atanasoff November 10, 2019

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parched, screaming and digging against the push you take a pretty hard sip to self the leaves lips dry, wide water it, there there, don’t cry pour the pot now a child sponging up the sun eyes smiling …

Silent Breakfast To Go

By: Hokis November 10, 2019

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Whiskey sour. Whiskey sweet. Wisk her heart. Beat her Eggs into an om Lette her devour it From a thirstless hunger. You know best, After all. And yet, She knows enough Not to run on An empty storm Ache. __ photo by samane mohammadi on unsplash. om, n., a mystic syllable, considered the most sacred mantra in Hinduism and Tibetan…

Nine Crows and The Godavari

By: Prathigna Yerakala October 22, 2019October 22, 2019

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Monsoons seize the trees of palm Clouds stand not alone behind the red curtain sun I swim with the black widowed crows Across the farm, a house rests on generational bones The familiar taste of sandalwood Burns in my throat and I think, I am home They ask, did you miss home? Two-eyed fish, banana…

Necessary Friends

By: Alizah Hashmi October 22, 2019October 22, 2019

LIFE, POETRY & PROSELeave a Comment

you’re at a lunch party, talking lessforking a bruschetta, careful not to make a messthinking of a cheeseburger, of the galaxies and Euler’s Identitynot the colour of your lip matte but you know you’re a bit of bore, a bit of a vagrantyou’re not thinking of a Hamptons vacationin this assemblyyour reticence is your salvation…

Walk Like You Like Yourself

By: Zeshan Bari October 20, 2019

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I was always aware that I was fat. It was as much of a fact to me as the sky being blue. Before I could even form my own opinions, my environment was teaching me to be ashamed of my body wherever I went — home, school, the mosque, and even the grocery store checkout…

TICKLING CATASTROPHE

By: Hokis October 20, 2019

EMPOWERMENT, MENTAL HEALTH, POETRY & PROSELeave a Comment

image from 1944 film Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, source: “What Does Gaslight Even Mean?“ __ can I stop by?I need a needle and thread to sew on a button. can I stop by? I need your advice. I stepped in. I had to.can you believe he would hit is own mother? can I…

Kintsugi & T(h)ea

By: Hokis October 20, 2019

CULTURE, POETRY & PROSE, RELIGIONLeave a Comment

I find our tribal human mind will always fight against the heart, missing the soul of the matter at hand. Unless the steady mentor’s brush meets the tree’s gold-infused sap, patiently stroking our scars to rejoin us we remain broken, shards of ceramic tea pots, waitingto pair our bitter matchawith their coupled sweet. __ This…

they tell a story

By: Anu October 3, 2019

EMPOWERMENT, POETRY & PROSE2 Comments

The scars on her body They all tell a story For she had been ridden of freedom To speak, to laugh, to live & to love With a life planned out just for her She was caught in binding ropes Her “well wishers” had weaved oh so carefully But the day had come when she…

Thicker Than Blood

By: Hokis October 3, 2019

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At the age of 22, I met the 63-year-old Armenian woman who had given me up for adoption. On the evening of that breathtaking day I stood in her bedroom. We spoke through our reflection in the mirror in front of us. I felt small, not in the five-foot way I was used to, but…