For the third 2026 edition of Esperanto Magazine, The Sex Edition, I wrote Barbie Doll Bare: A Piece on Genital Beauty Standards. The article explores the increasingly narrow expectations placed on vulvas and bodies in an age where pornography is often encountered long before real sexual experience. The piece began with a question that I found both confronting and strangely simple: what happens when pornography becomes our anatomy lesson? With constant access to highly curate

For World Poetry Day, I wanted to share a piece that sits at the edge of language — where writing begins to fail slightly, and the body takes over. The poem below began with a question that felt difficult to articulate directly:what happens to the body when something is seen that cannot be un-seen? We often think of vision as passive — as something that simply receives the world. But this poem resists that idea. It understands seeing as an event. Something that enters, alters