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Can pockets shift the hero narrative?
Packet of tissues, broken sunglasses, Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing, chapstick, reading light, student papers, roll of mints, phone, apple gone bad…
Sep 5
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Alissa Mears
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July 2025
the boys can be alright
When I was at religious camp, the summer I was desperate to get french-kissed and convinced my abs were my best asset, we lost two boys on a mountain.
Jul 30
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Alissa Mears
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April 2025
the girls' bathroom
“It’s the only safe space in a surveillance state,” one of my students asserts in a conversation that has left the pages of The Handmaid’s Tale and…
Apr 10
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Alissa Mears
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4
October 2024
House of Hormones
An adolescent boy and a perimenopausal woman make strange housemates.
Oct 30, 2024
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Alissa Mears
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3
September 2024
On cellos and their possibilities
Early in the summer, a friend arrived on my doorstep with a ¾ size cello on her back.
Sep 6, 2024
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Alissa Mears
7
2
June 2024
When I fantasize about my husband’s mistress
She is desperate for him.
Jun 11, 2024
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Alissa Mears
18
9
May 2024
Deromancing the Beast
the false narrative we love in love
May 14, 2024
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Alissa Mears
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10
April 2024
Please manspread on my page
has anyone noticed men don’t really write about their bodies?
Apr 25, 2024
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Alissa Mears
18
15
March 2024
And Yet
what was, what is, and what might be
Mar 27, 2024
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Alissa Mears
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2
Medusa's Curse or Cure?
middle age, friendship, and body insecurity
Mar 5, 2024
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Alissa Mears
5
2
February 2024
Break up's Spell
the creative catapult born of heartbreak and some artists for this day
Feb 13, 2024
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Alissa Mears
3
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Home Betrayal
"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger?"
Feb 7, 2024
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Alissa Mears
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5
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