Contested byways
Legend has it that Three Rivers, the rural city where I live, used to be a gathering place for sacred ceremonies for the indigenous…
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The perfect body
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Katie Houston explores her relationship with her…
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Why I am a Dolly Parton feminist
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Katie Hoogendam, lauds the subversive celebrity of…
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On privilege and plunder
My small community at Kalamazoo Peace House has been reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, Between the World and Me (Spiegel and Grau, 2015). Structured…
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Taking it on the chin
The first time I got socked in the jaw it came as a total surprise. At 14 years old, I was already close to…
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Femininity and The Big-Boned Gal
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Denise Frame Harlan explores memories of her…
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Encounter
The wave of tension that tightened the spines of the thirty-odd commuters on the platform is familiar to any urbanite. I was living in…
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Our bodies, our places
I do not know how exact a case might be made, but it seems to me that there is an historical parallel, in white…
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The sound of a calling
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Amanda Cleary Eastep explores the interaction between…
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How to be here?
Review: Living In The World As If It Were Home. Tim Lilburn. Cormorant Books, 1999. Most serious thought in our time struggles with the…
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