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 …
Quote for Today: Barbara Macdonald
The power of the old woman is that because she is outside the system, she can attack it. And I am determined to attack it. One of the ways …
Quote for Today: Mary Wollstonecraft
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their FASCINATING graces, and viewing them as if they were in a …
Featured Artist: Nikita Helewa
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome writer and poet Nikita Helewa, based in Toronto, with two delicious poems, “Faintly” and “Bath.” The first is an homage to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora …
Quote for Today: Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
But isn’t this a dance? Isn’t all of this a dance? Isn’t that what we do with words? Isn’t that what we do when we talk, when we spar, …
Featured Artist: Lori Lasseter Hamilton
Please join Synkroniciti as we welcome back poet Lori Lasseter Hamilton with “Ritual: A Dictionary Definition,” a heart-wrenching poem that alludes to how society hides away sexual assault, denying people …
Quote for Today: Sylvia Plath
Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not-writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded …
Quote for Today: Margot Sunderland
Society reaps what it sows in the way it nurtures its children, because stress sculpts the brain to exhibit several antisocial behaviors. Stress can set off a ripple of hormonal …