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An Injustice!

When Curious Adults Meet Nonbinary Youth

A chance meeting with a minister and seven books for learning about gender

10 min readOct 10, 2023

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Kyle Lukoff’s middle grade novel Different Kinds of Fruit lays on a jean vest, surrounded by pronoun pins and other various enamel pins with slogans like “Babes Against the Binary” and “Gender Outlaw”

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Human Parts

What My Florida Middle School Taught Me About HIV and AIDS

14 years ago, my conservative school district taught a curriculum that may now be contested

6 min readSep 18, 2023

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An image of a plastic human anatomy model showing half a human face and half a skull with the various organs and veins exposed.

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The Narrative Arc

I Have 4,000 Books Left to Read before I Die

How a decade-old summer reading project became “who I am”

10 min readSep 6, 2023

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Passing (Larsen); When the Angels Left the Old Country (Lamb); After Lorca (Spicer); Detransition, Baby (Peters); Life Ceremony (Murata); Sharks in the Time of Saviors (Washburn); I Hear the Sunspot (Fumino); American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin (Hayes); Confessions of the Fox (Rosenberg); Bluets (Nelson).

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Coffee Time Reviews

Life and Death in Laura Bylenok’s ‘Living Room’

Exploring motherhood and grief in a Backwaters Prize–winning poetry collection

5 min readApr 5, 2024

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Life and Death in Laura Bylenok’s ‘Living Room’

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Superfreaks: An Interview on Kink, Power, and Poetry with Arielle Greenberg

An exploration of kink for both vanilla readers and experienced kinksters alike

14 min readMar 2, 2024

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SUPERFREAKS: KINK, PLEASURE, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS by Arielle Greenberg (Beacon Press, 2023)

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Pink Hair & Pronouns

We Are Mermaids: Coming into Womanhood with Poet Stephanie Burt

Each poem is an ode to trans women at different points in their lives.

5 min readJan 24, 2024

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The cover of WE ARE MERMAIDS by Stephanie Burt. THree mermaids are on the cover, one is black, one is white, and one is brown. Their tails and the background is covered in floral motifs.

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The Square Mileage of a Virtual World

Exploring enormous open worlds in modern videogames

6 min readJan 21, 2024

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A pixel art illustration of the original Legend of Zelda’s game map.

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The Shortform

You Saved that Library Book

How a reader shapes their local library’s collection

1 min readNov 14, 2023

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You Saved that Library Book

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Language Lab

How Watching Korean Dramas Improved My Czech

Increase your reading speed, expand your vocabulary, and learn formal/informal conjugations during your downtime.

6 min readNov 6, 2023

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How Watching Korean Dramas Improved My Czech

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Pink Hair & Pronouns

Five Memoirs by Trans Authors

Because trans kids grow up to be trans adults with stories to tell

7 min readOct 28, 2023

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A collage of books by trans authors including: One Sunny Afternoon by Rowan Jetté Knox, Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H, The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc, The Bride Was a Boy by Chii, Love Lives Here by Rowan Jetté Knox, Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, Sorted by Jackson Bird, and He/She/They by Schuyler Bailar.

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C. E. Janecek

C. E. Janecek

I'm a writer, editor & book reviewer with an MFA from Colorado State. I have thoughts on poetry, speculative fiction, memoirs, and more!

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