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Title Author Year
The Uncanny Valley Kimberly Reyes 2019
Half Girl, Then Elegy Omotara James 2019
She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1911
The First Rule of Buoyancy Ollie Schminkey 2024
Trash [is a terrible metaphor…] Nicole Cooley 2021
us girls S*an D. Henry-Smith 2023
Hello Beautiful Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha, Al Mills 2020
The Socialist and the Suffragist Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Cult of the Deer Goddess Caylin Capra-Thomas 2019
Dear Melissa: [I wish you] TC Tolbert 2018
Across the Street from the Whitmore Home for Girls, 1949 Rachel McKibbens 2016
From “IV. The Stone” [The morning came like primroses] Lola Ridge 1873
From “Coy” (v) Richard Scott 2025
Little Bruja Leonora Simonovis 2025
Black Hole Virginia Konchan 2024
The Lord’s Corner Tyree Daye 2024
Memory of One Day in a Kitchen Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2015
Song of Perfect Propriety Dorothy Parker 1926
A Rogue Dream Melanie Figg 2020
The Black Queen Carrie Law Morgan Figgs 1921

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