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Toilet Leadership
By Sammy Ginsberg Thank you Toilet! Thank you for listening always,holding space for our private excretions,taking our shit.Toilet for president!Toilet for prime minister!Toilet for pope!Oh, you’re an anarchist? This piece is from The Feminist Toilet #3. To return to the table of contents, click here.
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Reciprocity
By Billy Butler I’d been to his city before,but I was still a touristpushing against a currentof people so I could meet himfor dinner. We walked backto my hotel, a nicer roomthan I could afford, as the sun setover a hazy coast. We kissed.We came at the same timeand he cried a little. I said…
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For Your Convenience
By Frank Ortega A young Narcissus coming in from the rain kneels before the blow drier of a men’s public room. Stealing reflections selfish from its curved chrome he watches his hand style precious locks teased through hot forced air; strained, he dries also his pants. This piece is from The Feminist Toilet #3. To return…
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EVERY BATHROOM IN L.A. IS GAY NOW
By Karla Lamb for Vanessa An army of lovers shall not fail. — Rita Mae Brown How do I enter this poem? Do love justice? A party is a party is a party. We mark our territory, knock over piles of TP rolls at sapphic nights—in gay sports bars. & someone in the bathroom line…
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First Kiss in the Boys’ Bathroom
By Axel Jordan The boys’ bathroom always smelled like acombinationof sweat & soap that didn’t quite workand paper towels that tore too easily. Fluorescent lights humming overhead.Tile floors cold even through sneakers.Voices echoing from the hallwayjust beyond the door. We were in detention together that week,two boys pretending not to noticehow often we looked at…
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Untitled
By Tanya Gabrish I am of the earth,Sometimes being ground into the dirtand other timesSpringing off with bare feet. This piece is from The Feminist Toilet #3. To return to the table of contents, click here.
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I feel god inside this taco bell bathroom: a taco-entrapuntal
By Kristin Gustafson This piece is from The Feminist Toilet #3. To return to the table of contents, click here.
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for the wild lovers in every world
By Nancy Lynée Woo wild weather is upon us –wild wanderer, I wonder wherethe wildness goes –when it leaves –where do all the frogs gowhen they go extinct?what wild plane do we come from –us, the birds, the butterfliesand the bees?whoever is out to destroyall living things, I hex themwith my wild wand, my braveryand…
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Anti-Ode to the Third Toilet From the End in the Elephant Bar Bathroom
By Victoria Lynne McCoy We were there for my birthday dinner, but youwere the main event. I prepared to kneel before youlike ritual, there in the vaguely safari-themedsuburban chain. The anonymity of Anytown I neededwith the false promise of adventureI craved. You were a confession I bore in secretso no one could take the cold…
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The Feminist Toilet #3
If These Stalls Could Talk Edited by Sammy Ginsberg and Brian Sonia-WallacePublishing Assistant: Juliana McKenna Feel free to copy, redistribute, or share this work, but please credit the authors and The Feminist Toilet, and do not sell it. Read PDF below or scroll to read digital links. This zine was published with support from The…
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