Quote for Today: Jasz Gill
Dear Fellow Human Being, You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed! Tell yourself, You do not deserve this! All those toxic words you have to listen …
“The Alien of Old Springville Road and Medina Drive” by Lori Lasseter Hamilton wins our “Intersections” Poetry Contest
Synkroniciti is excited to reveal the winner of our “Intersections” poetry contest, Lori Lasseter Hamilton’s “The Alien of Old Springville Road and Medina Drive.” This powerful poem explores the intersectionality …
Quote for Today: Minnie Bruce Pratt
And despite the punishments for boundary crossing, we continue to live, daily, with all our contradictory differences. Here I still stand, unmistakably “feminine” in style, and “womanly” in personal experience–and …
Featured Artist: Karen Poppy
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome poet Karen Poppy with “Genderless Mother,” which takes us into the world of a non-binary, transgender mother and their journey to becoming who they are …
Featured Artist: Lori Lasseter Hamilton
Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome back poet Lori Lasseter Hamilton with “Empower Me,” an extremely vulnerable and personal piece about rape. The violence and the physical damage are shocking, but …
Featured Artist: Dr. Terry Barr
Please join Synkroniciti in welcoming writer Dr. Terry Barr, who grew up in Bessemer, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. His thoughtful essay, “Straight to the Scalp” remembers the American Deep …
Quote for Today: Jia Tolentino
The timidity in mainstream feminism to admit that women’s choices—not just our problems—are, in the end, political has led to a vision of “women’s empowerment” that often feels brutally disempowering …
Quote for Today: Janet Mock
My family subscribed to this rigid belief system. They were unaware of the reality that gender, like sexuality, exists on a spectrum. By punishing me, they were performing the socially …
Quote for Today: James Baldwin
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding …
Featured Artist: Sara McAulay
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back poet and writer Sara McAulay, who won our spring poetry contest with “In the beginning,” an indictment of human indifference for our Earth, the …