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I Drew Candy-pink Houses Under a Smiling Sun
Tracie T. Nichols Before the hands in the night. Before the forced exposures. Before my morning school bus rides, hobbled by hidden pain.


Vanilla is the Scent of Rape
Tracy Grinstead-Everly Vanilla is the scent of rape. I have tried many times to make it NOT that, to make it the scent of nurseries and...


Exposed by Unavoidable Light
Tracie T. Nichols I am flesh annealed. Strong but jagged. Malleable but shatterproof. Tempered young— exposure by relentless exposure....


SKIN HUNGER by slm
slm The shedding of anything isn’t easy. Letting go of all that has been built up Over time, Under pressure, Through something As simple...


Blue Butterfly: “Exploitations of Innocence” Excerpts
Valerie Twyman I was born an identical twin. Many years ago, I looked up the meaning of our names. Vera, who died after living for only...


Fourth of July, 1980
Leslie Hill It is late afternoon on a Friday, and almost everyone in our family is at a Fourth of July block party down the street. I...


advice to my sister runners
Jess Woolford dress to suppress step into sack sweats hide inside hoodie no shape: too ugly to rape or so they say spontaneity? a...







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Text Power Telling magazine's mission is to create a supportive and healing community for survivors to use their writing, art, and creativity to take back power from sexual trauma. Our goal is to offer a safe creative space that provides room for all the complexities of what it is to be human and its intersection with trauma and oppression.
Our creative arts magazine strives to be inclusive and equitable by prioritizing:
- submission guidelines through an equity lens
- diversity in our editorial staff, reviewers, writers, and artists
-work across the full spectrum of human experience, including amplifying stories of the most marginalized artists
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