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Fiction | Short Story
How to Love a Rabbit

There were a number of things that shaped who Simra was. The most important was that she knew how to love a rabbit.

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Nahida S. Nisa
Dec 07, 2018
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Culture | Queer Life
As a Trans Person, I Don’t Need You to Hug Me. I Need You to Fight for Me.

Trans people have rights because we’re human—not because we’re special. So why does having those rights recognized require a flood of trans tears?

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Luke Dani Blue
Dec 06, 2018
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People | Bodies
Once I Had Black Hairdressers, I Learned That Black Hair Did Not Equal Pain

These women showed me how to love and care for myself—the only way a Black woman could.

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Angela Wright
Dec 06, 2018
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Catapult’s Most Popular Stories of 2018

Cover Photo: “Dash around the lightship,” 1886 / via New York Public Library Digital Collections
People | Brains!
How Shanties and Songs of the Sea Helped Me Weather the Storm of Depression
The language of depression can be curiously maritime. It comes in waves; it drowns us; it’s the Mariner’s albatross around our necks.
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Blair Thornburgh
Aug 06, 2018
Cover Photo: Illustration by Nicole Caputo for Catapult
Columns | Bayou Diaries
Montrose, the Neighborhood That Gave Us Everything
Montrose was unofficially codified as the nexus of queer life in Houston. That’s the part we cared about. If you held a map to the wall, I could tell you how we came to be on those streets.
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Bryan Washington
Oct 16, 2018
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People | Legacies
Unheard Grief, Unmovable Men: How an Old Mexican Folktale Speaks to Our Pain Today
All the wrong people are crying, and all the people who ought to feel something do not.
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John Paul Brammer
Nov 05, 2018

Best of 2018

Bodies

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What Bird Watching Gave Me After My Miscarriage

Kate McKean
Cover Photo: Courtesy of @littlespottedfawn on Instagram

I Stopped Dyeing My Gray Hair as an Act of Resistance

Mo Perry
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Watching Home Movies After My Double Mastectomy

Rebecca Nison
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Columns

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Places | Columns | Home Again
Confronting the Violence of Gentrification in Your Hometown
Moving home to Newark has been a surreal experience because I have had to mourn places that once were, but are no longer.
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Cameron Glover
Dec 04, 2018
Cover Photo: Art by Shing Yin Khor for Catapult
Columns | Bad Kimchi
I’ll Fight Anyone Who Says You Shouldn’t Put Cheese on Your Ramyun
Ramen is comfort food, a thing to soak up your regrets and get you through a rough day. But my favorite way to enjoy it has courted great controversy among my friends and family.
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Noah Cho
Dec 03, 2018
Cover Photo: Scene from Scene from "Daredevil," Marvel Television/Netflix
Columns | A Blind Writer's Notebook
When People See Your Blindness as Superhuman, They Stop Seeing You as Human
The sixth sense, second sight, third eye. We are supposed to have both extra-accurate hearing and perfect pitch, more numerous and more acute taste buds, a finer touch, a bloodhound’s sense of smell.
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M. Leona Godin
Nov 29, 2018

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Fiction

Cover Photo: Art by Isabelle Laureta for Catapult
Fiction | Short Story
Gordo and Mayra’s First Night in America
Alfonzo looked aghast, like they were the two most naïve immigrants in the history of New York. “ICE is preparing to break through that door with guns and night vision goggles, maybe even dogs, and you’re worried about the breeze?”
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Dan Hernandez
Nov 30, 2018
Cover Photo: Art by Isabelle Laureta for Catapult
Fiction | Short Story
Sleepy Things
Tony had only gone on, like, seven dates with Josefín and the jodona was already lounging on Magdalena’s couch.
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Adam Soto
Nov 16, 2018
Cover Photo: Art by Isabelle Laureta for Catapult
Fiction | Short Story
North to the Future
If you’re having a good time it usually means you’re having a bad time, I think. So the opposite has got to be true also.
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Luke Wiget
Nov 09, 2018

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