"Musings of a #Lonely Feminist" Issue #3: "Joining Forces"

This cover has the title at the top along with a photo of Bell Hooks, a feminist writer and champion of intersectionality, in the center. She is surrounded by roses, beads, and a halo around her head, giving the impression of divinity.

In this collage there are two large photos of Beyonce, an American black pop singer, and M.I.A., an English-Sri Lankan Tamil rapper. Both artists are known for their roles in supporting feminism. At the bottom is a quote from one of M.I.A.'s songs, entitled "Karmageddon", which is concerned with the power of words to affect social change.

Table of contents with a list of the pieces along with their authors in the order in which they appear.

In this poem, the author speaks to an unnamed "bold knight" and flips the classic story of a man rescuing a damsel with a kiss by concluding with "happily ever after/means not waking to your lips". Surrounding this poem is a drawn picture of a women's face, an image of women in long skirts draped over each other, and the words "No Thanks" in the corner. The power to refuse a man's advances is a right highly valued in feminism and this page emulates that idea.

In this piece the author describes her life growing up with a mother with "the disease of hoarding". The author recalls her mother's own embarrassment at what she perceives as the disease of most working class people, the disease her grandmother had as well. The author writes that when you grow up without anything in "Sh*t-stain, small town Texas", everyone holds on to everything lest they lose the only place they can hide from the world and its hostility.

In this "open letter", the author expresses her frustration and rage at the Christian God. This may be because of her sexuality/gender identification as she states "I have been a good girl and yet I wander daily as a man...How long must I wait?" The author writes of feeling unheard by God and of being impatient in waiting for Him to answer her. She decides by the end of the poem to abandon waiting and to go "Home" where she can be "everything-that-is". Two images surround the poem, one of a menacing, dark woman figure, and the second of a distressed woman looking up in terror at said figure. This may be how the author feels her relationship with the Christian God to be, one of fear and confusion rather than unconditional love and acceptance.