Gender Trouble Shortlist

by Rebecca Paredes
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Editor’s Note

Our Gender Trouble challenge asked for writers to pull apart gender categories: heteronormativity, conformity, roles, and bodies. We’re excited to share our shortlist, which celebrates the writers whose work lingered with us long after reading. Our finalists will be announced tomorrow!

Cock as Personal Menagerie” by Ro White

Disorientations” by Jennifer M Phillips

The Mechanics of Flight” by Gary Mitchell

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Rebecca Paredes

Rebecca Paredes is the Editor-in-Chief of Glossy Planet. She is a writer from Lake Elsinore, California, where the IHOP is located next to the graveyard, and an alumna of PEN America’s Emerging Voices Workshop LA. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Epiphany Magazine, Barren Magazine, Hunger Mountain Review, and other publications. She is currently working on a novel inspired by her hometown.

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