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Breakout – Full Design

This week, the Nass celebrates Women*s History Month with a series of brilliant, probing, and devastating pieces by and about women* of all kinds.

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A Letter from the Publishers: Celebrating the Women*s Issue

The co-publishers of the Nassau Weekly celebrate the third-annual Women*s Issue.

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Fake Housewives, Get Out

In which a writer contemplates the influence of housewives, real and fake.

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Refusal, Or: Three Cauliflower Ears

In which a Nass writer celebrates the work of prominent surrealist Leonara Carrington.

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Dream Diary

“As the months passed, we became two strangers who would only ever meet in dreams.”

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Stretchers

“They are not allowed to know the embrace of the sisters next to them”

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Weight Watcher

“No matter how good my grades are or how well I do in my after-school clubs, I fight with my body.”

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The Long and Short: Hair

“Every time I looked in the mirror, my cropped hair reminded me that I had suffered, had experienced something that none of my peers could comprehend.”

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Lincoln

“He wouldn’t have taken it normally, but there was a girl at Lincoln’s shoulder, a fiber science major who kept touching his button-down to inspect the weave, and he couldn’t tell afterwards whether she’d only kissed him because it was 100% cotton.”

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In Heat

“my body / remembering / it exists, unmoored, / metamorphosing, moistening / peeling lips.”

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Love Lessons

Wherein a Nass writer contemplates the influence of Disney on her burgeoning worldview.

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Cruzing Away – Full Design

This week, the Nass gets creative with our culinary adventures, meditates on the significance of trains, and memorializes Fine Hall.

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