Wetlands Magazine is the University of Puget Sound’s campus publication dedicated to the critical interrogation of gender, sexuality, ability, age, class, race, embodiment, intersectional identities and social justice as well as the celebration of related art, poetry, literature and performance. Wetlands Magazine aspires to be an inclusive, accessible, critical and safe forum for student advocacy. The magazine was founded during the 2011-2012 academic year by then-seniors Anya Callahan, Ruby Aliment, and Megan Chambers as a student club. In 2013 Wetlands Magazine was made a part of the Gender Studies Program, and in Spring 2015 it became an official ASUPS medium.
Wetlands Magazine is staffed, edited and as of 2014 funded entirely by students. Because of the nature of a student publication, the magazine is itself a project constantly under reconstruction, always dynamic in response to the concerns of the campus community. We hope to facilitate and contribute to a comprehensive reflection of unique experiences and thoughts in our community through the medium of a student publication oriented toward the advocacy of marginalized students and the celebration of their identities.
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Wetlands Magazine, Issue 17
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
7. CROWS OVER CALIFORNIA Theo Meranze (art by Lucy Curtis) 8. BOOBS Quin Severo 9. THE PROM I NEVER HAD Brenna Sweeney 10. I AM LOOKING FOR HIS BROKEN PORCELAIN GIRL Kaya Heimowitz 11. UNTITLED Lucy Curtis 12. ON VASHON ISLAND Daniel Pollock (art by Lydia Thompson) 14. BUTTERFLY Hannah Lee 16. COWBOYS AND MEN Daniel Pollock 20. COLLAGES Odhan Mullen 24. HOME Aaron Porter 26. TREE Lucy Curtis 27. THESEUS’ CARGO Ari Vergen 28. INSIGNIFICANCE Lucy Curtis 29. FRAGMENTS (2020) Theo Meranze 32. THE VIVISECTION ROOM Katie Hetterly 33. FLIGHT 828 Aaron Porter 34. HANDS Quin Severo 35. CREATURES AND THE STAGE Ari Vergen (art by Lucy Curtis) 39. WARNING: HANDLE WITH CARE Hannah Zinn 40. FOR HER (A HAIKU) Alice Noble HANDS Lucy Curtis 41. TALK POSTMODERN TO ME Bismikado 42. HOW TO GET UNSTUCK Anonymous 46. THE PATRIARCH SAYS: WE’D LIKE THE CONVERSATION TO BE BINARY Mae Lovett 47. GET THEM OFF Anonymous 48. LA RESISTENCIA SOLIDARITY DAY Nola Thury 49. BIG LOVE Bird Hudson 52. QUEER SELF PUDDING Lenora Yee 53. ON CONTAINING MULTITUDES Alice Noble
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Wetlands Magazine, Issue 15
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
06. A QUEER MOTION Anonymous 06. UNTITLED Quin Severo 07. UNTITLED Ally Abraham 08. WHO IS SHE! Quin Severo 09-12. FLOWER LANGUAGE Isabelle Horn 13. UNTITLED Ally Abraham UNTITLED Quin Severo 14-15. SOFT TRANSITION Anonymous 16-20. WHY I DON’T LIKE PURIM, JUDIASM’S GAYEST HOLIDAY Morey Lipsett 18. UNTITLED Luca Lotruglio 20. UNTITLED Quin Severo 21. SELF-PORTRAIT Elan Bowman 22. I TOOK A CITY QUEER HOME & THEY BROUGHT THE POLLUTION WITH THEM Anonymous UNTITLED Quin Severo 23-24. PRONOUN OR CON Jake Hearen 24. UNTITLED Quin Severo 25. WHAT WAS LOVE? Sarah Johnson 26. UNTITLED Ally Abraham 27. GOLDEN GATE Mushawn Knowles 28. ROOTS, PT 1 & 2 Anonymous 29. LEARNING TO BE AGAIN Sarah Buchlaw 30. UNTITLED Ally Abraham 31. HOME Anonymous 32. #METOO Anonymous 33. ?????? Anonymous 34. UNTITLED Lia Chin-Purcell
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Wetlands Magazine, Issue 16
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
COLE PEACH EXISTENCE MISPERCEPTION OVERGROWN SEASONAL ANTHONY I'M DONE CRECIMIENTO EN EL INVIERNO WITCHING HOUR HEAD IN THE CLOUDS HEARTFELT LAVA GIRL CLEMENTINE
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Wetlands Magazine, Issue 14
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
MENTAL ILLNESS IS A WHITE PEOPLE PROBLEM SYLVIA I WAS NEVER ALL THAT GOOD WITH GOODBYES TRIANGLED RECOVERY GOOD MORNING REBEL IT'S STARTING AGAIN VAGRANT WHAT NOW? RITE AID RED SEA LADY THIS BODY IS CURSED I LOVE MY BODY A STREETLIGHT EMBRACE THE WRONG KIND OF LOVE TEARY SKIED TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN LOST AND FOUND EMMET WHO IS SHE! I HAVE ALWAYS LIVED HERE SWEDISH WISH
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Wetlands Magazine, Issue 11
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
02. THINGS I TOUCH 1 & 2 Hannah Houser 05. WHO R U Shanna Williams (cw: self harm) 06. UNTITLED Kanchan Armstrong 07-08. FOUR MONTHS Em Catanzaro 09-10. THE MISSING ELEMENTS Timmy Flock 11. SILENCE Nia Henderson 12. UNTITLED Jae Bates (cw: abuse) SNAKE Rory Wong Jacobs (cw: nudity; blood) 13-16. REJECTING VIRGINITY Indigo DaCosta (cw: heteronormativity; mention of rape; mention of blood) 16. SAUCY SCRIBBLES Waterlily Moondust (cw: nudity; sex) 17. 109. Sophia Munic VALENTINES 1-3 Sophia Munic (cw: nudity) 18. OCD Shanna Williams (cw: self harm) 19-20. YOU FORGOT WE WERE MAGIC Laney Paradise 21. CONTENTMENT Savanah Tartler (cw: nudity) 22. THE NIGHT OF... (HANG ON DARLING, GENTLE NOW) Evan Welsh 23-24. SOLO LAS LÁGRIMAS DE NUESTROS ABUELOS CAERÁN DEL CIELO Juan-Carlos Ortega Esquinca 24. JEWELS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION Sam 25. YOU'RE NOT A GODDAMN SAINT FOR TELLING A HALF-TRUTH Anonymous (cw: rape; rape apologism) 26. I'VE NEVER WRITTEN A POEM ABOUT YOU Shanna Williams (cw: abuse) 27-28. ON MOUNTAINS AND RELIEF Anonymous 29-30. HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL Carlisle W. Huntington 32. STAND STRONG AND STABLE WITH YOUR BODY (LAVENDER LADY) Waterlily Moondust (cw: nudity; genitals) CICADOIDEA Grace Piccard 33. TRAUMA IS ONE HELL OF A DRUG Anonymous (cw: dissociation) 34-35. FUCKING AWFUL Alice Hudson (cw: t-slur; sexually explicit language; mentions of genitalia) 36. //FLESH Cat Huber 37. THE IDEAL SELF Dynah Bodvel (cw: nudity; genitals) 38. DECEMBER 28, 2014 Indigo DaCosta (cw: death of a trans woman)
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Wetlands Magazine, Issue 9
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
Moon is My Favorite Lesbian by Denise Parry In Utero/Possibilities by Sophia Lev Mother Poem, Mother Home by Anonymous White Feminism by Natalie Balkam, Kaitlyn Camey, Natalie Scoggins Treasure Chest by Jae Bates Sleeping in Separate Houses by Colleen McNeely Comic by Amanda Woolsey Understanding, Here and There by Denise Parry Render by K.O. Leeches Reproduce by Reciprocal Fertilization. by Hailey Snover A View From the Past by Sophia Munic Surviving by Anonymous “Power and Dysphoria: Towards a World of Trans Flourishing” by Kathryn Queirolo Thanks Obama by Tony Calabrese-Thomas Leelah by Indigo Dad Rage by Anonymous Ophelia is so bad for yourself by Michelle Leatherby monster/woman by Natalie Scoggins Evidence: by Hailey Snover To being what you did not foresee by Rose Pytte Untitled by Sophie Lev More Blood on the Ground by Natalie Balkam CItrus Sanguine by Maggie Langford Poppies: A Biomythogrpahy by Hailey Snover The Day I Learned to Garden by Sophie Lev Inspiration Porn by Jae Bates Public Service Announcement by David Bodvel untitled by anonymous Real World by Indigo Spotted Gender by Sophia Munic The Times I Got Drunk by Elsie he was my boyfriend by Shanna Williams $1.29 by Anonymous Narratives of Biopolitics at the Northwest Detention Center by Arda Bulak Latinx by Gabriela Yoque Hand me my Anatomy (sex) by Sophia Munic A Ghost No Guest by Ricky Mave Never - until by Mica Thompson Re-Examination: Taking a Good, Hard Look at UPS Sexual Assault Policy by by Amanda Woolsey Borther by Zoe Branch It is Me by Tony Calabrese-Thomas Stand With Me by Zeman Nathoo Bra Straps by Maloy Moore Growing Pain by Heather Miller Sisterhood by Elayna Caron Refusal by Gabriela Yoque
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Wetlands Magazine, Issue 8
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
Bleeding Heart by Padideh Aghanoury Silenced by Indigo Class is in Session: Why we need to talk about Financial Aid by Kaitlyn Vallance, Kailee Farber, Natalie Scoggins, Molly Golanka, Adrian Kjlucec Labels by Caroline Perris Frogspawn by Kiri Raynolds Bolles People like Me Shouldn’t Have to be Exceptional for Us Not to be Pitied or Killed by Denise Parry Quilt by Natalie Scoggins I am Eating Myself Alive by Sam Bainbridge Not Your Baby by Sophia Lev Flummoxed by Julia Lin Manic by Sam Bainbridge Trigger Warnings & Microaggressions by Simone Quinanola, Kaitlyn Carney, Lizzi Hahn Boy Meets Girl by Jae S. Bates Dissociative by Sam Bainbridge Bullshit by Elayna Caron Attention: Male Liberals by Denise Parry Bones by Padideh Aghanoury A Monologue of Trans Gendered Madness by Kathryn Q. Face 1 by Padideh Aghanoury Femme-NOS by Denise Parry Queering Campus: Creating Safer Spaces by Rory Wong Jacobs, Esme Whritenour, Maloy Moore, Kara Ann 13 by Nicky Sekino Thanksgiving by anonymous To All My Past Lovers by Grace Piccard Pour by Maggie Langford Peel by Maggie Langford Ecstasy of St. Emma by Maggie Langford Withered by Hannah Monsour Bitter Homes and Gardens by Simone Quinanola Divinity by Ryann Whitely Crystalline by Kiri Raynolds Bolles Why are all the trans people angry? Thoughts on anger and activism by Aryeh Conrad Fading Face by Sophia Munic Flipping through the Dictionary by Maloy Moore An Open Letter From One Mistress to Another by Lydia Bauer Catcall by Elayna Caron Women in Boxes by Sophia Lev Saturday by Shanna Williams TW by Olivia Carlson Keene Consent isn’t sexy, it’s mandatory: A survey of the sexual prevention education at University of Puget Sound by Maddy Powers, Padideh Aghanoury, Elayna Caron Ghost by anonymous Face 2 by Padideh Aghanoury How My Queerness Taught me that Love is Conditional by Denise Parry “What Cis White Men Talk About When They Talk About Diversity” by Alice Hudson My vagina would wear by Olivia Carlson Keene prunus dulcis var. amara by Natalie Scoggins
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Wetlands Magazine, Issue 7
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
Transmissions of a Queer Insomniac Shot Gun Girls Earth Flesh Bruise Hazel Basement Four Weeks Invalidated Top Surgery Mesoamerican Collection “Building From the Crawlspace”: Liberation and the (Neo)-Liberal Arts Primavera Dismembered Hands Things I Will Have to Teach My Children Daughter Chronically Ill, Chronically Queer, Chronically Neurodivergent: The Complications of Explaining My Existence to My Mom Lost Movement Red Queer Visibility: The Dilemma of the PNW An Undercut of One’s Own: Potential Markers of Queerness in Albuquerque, NM Highway A Hybrid Can Withstand These Things Drowning in My Period To Own Queer Bodies His Cunt Intimacy Safe, Sane, Consensual The Sterotypical Man Submersion Sexual Assault Policy on Our Campus This is Different One Liners Seeking Passage Beyond
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Wetlands Magazine, Issue 6
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
Generous Unwelcome Stand-by Race On my chest binder Egg Penitent Palms I don’t know what consent is My Rapist Threads Conduct Report #37 Instincts Moments Body positivity isn't the easiest thing to learn I-doll-atry Pregnant Tattoo This is Not a Love Poem Fallacious Fingers Riverbed Lips Bisexuality and Straight Privilege Towards a Mad Nihilism Number 33 Non-Normative Bodies I Want Lots of Hair on My Armpits Because it Makes You Uncomfortable God Likes To Fuck Action Trope Libido An Autologue Raggedy Ann Running Remember This To the Boy in the Sexy Photo
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Wetlands Magazine, Issue 5
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
Tireless: Reflections on the Place of Gender Studies at the University of Puget Sound I Ached to Belong Hips Why Feminism Should Be Reformed Gender Phallacies In, And What We Can Learn From From, Max Valerio’s The Testosterone Files Periods Suck Defying the Bathroom Door Unlocked "hook-up culture" my first time Silly Girl Taste My Very Own Pair The Necessity of Structural Change: A Response to Queers in Greek Life Bi the Way, Your Male Gaze is Basic A Prayer Apology Not Accepted A Thank You to the Men I Know Leader of the Pack I Thought Heroes Were For Everyone? Full Moon Queer Landscape Girls is on My Mind What is "Surviving"? they say silence is golden Polo Green
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Wetlands Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 2
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
Conformity Diptych Winter Body Uncensored Beauty I A Plea to Fellow Men I Remember I Was Mad Threat What are you? Greek Life and Straight Supremacy An Open Letter to Greek Life Allies Aren’t Queer Uncensored Beauty II Fade Prints Hunger Wet with your theory Whose bodies are missing? Grey Matter Nakedness American River Genderqueer Red Mentality Subject vs. Object Holding Back and Moving Forward On the Verge Leaves I Knew sorry but fuck you An Open Letter to Mariska Hargitay The Queer Community
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Wetlands Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 1
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
Feminist Porn Debate The Uncertainty of our Judgment Wet Dreams Wanting Naughty Haikus Grab Somebody Sexy and Say It’s Okay to Wait Loving More Unseen Strength Discovery Chromagasm Equestrian/ Excavator Going Solo Choosing Prostitution: Agency of Female Sex Workers in Post-Mao China If Only Cum Shots Were This Pretty Fucked To EmBODY Nature Suits on Heads The Spector To the Boy Rapist, From a Father The Twelve Hours You Stole Speak Out The Gratuitous Violence of February Perdida Delicate Power His and Hers Libidos It’s Hard Shalom Cumming to UPS
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Wetlands Magazine, Volume 2
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
Local Artist: Chandler O’Leary and Jessica Spring’s Dead Feminists Series Reproductive Justice: Access to Reproductive Care and Abortion for All Dispelling the Myths of Limited- Service Pregnancy Centers (LSPC) Deconstructing Sexual Violence and Rape Culture Marriage Equality
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Wetlands Magazine, Volume 1
Gender and Queer Studies Program, University of Puget Sound
Selections from the Gender Studies Research Seminar You Call his representation? A Study of Women in American Foreign Policy Getting a Grip: Understanding Male ejaculatory Practices in Popular Media and Expression as Physical Manifestations of Male Anxiety I Now Declare You Barely Human: How the Institution of Marriage Continues to Impede Women’s Rights in Contemporary America Cum at Me: Presentations of Female Sexual Pleasure Re-Valuing Motherhood Through new Media: he Cultural Significance of “Mommy Blogging” Outward Displacement, Inward Assimilation: The Inner Journey Home in Star Trek: Voyager