Editorial Statement Word Count: 1,441 by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon An introduction to SHADOWS from Stillpoint Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief. – With POLY- (POLYPNEA, POLYGLOT & POLYDIPSIA) photography by EJATU SHAW
https://vimeo.com/356010544 WALKING IN THE SHADOWS Word Count: 2,358 by Marcie Rendon Walking the Red River to honor Murdered & Missing Indigenous women. – With WATER a video by TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER
Desire and Pleasure Word Count: 2,184 by Franco 'Bifo' Berardi On why we’d be fools to sever pleasure from desire. – With INTERVENTION, HAPPY TRAIL & 911 CALL artwork by ERIN M. RILEY
BIOPOLITICAL WARS IN THE ERA OF THE ALT-RIGHT Word Count: 3,208 by Dr A. Kiarina Kordela A warning to the left on the dehumanizing potentials of shame. – With RAY OF HOPE a video by DUNCAN McKELLAR
Detached Complicity and Willful Disbelief: Challenging Attitudes on Race and Racism in Europe Word Count: 2,070 by Joe von Hutch On why it’s time to stop believing white people came from Europe, and that Europe is a continent at all. – With artwork by HANNA LEE JOSHI
THE OVERWHELMING URGE Word Count: 1,168 by Ella Frears Poetry inspired by the repressed feminine origins in the history of psychoanalysis. – With GREY CLOUD and YELLOW DROOP artworks by SARAH SLAPPEY
On the Myths of Being White and Being Exceptional Word Count: 3,193 by Elizabeth Tannen On the lies that white privilege tells. – With CONQUERORS & MONSTER photographs by PAMELA COHN
FISHING FOR FALLEN LIGHT Word Count: 3,122 by Lora Matz One psychotherapist’s journey from extreme poverty & domestic abuse, through institutional abuse & clandestine drug testing in the US psychiatric system, into transcendence & a life of healing. – With WHEN WE WENT THERE WE WALKED THE PERIMETER artwork by KATE HOLFORD
Non-fiction Review: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo Word Count: 1,739 by Rebecca Gilroy A review of Lisa Taddeo’s ‘Three Women’ and the hidden experiences of sex and gender for three white women in America.
https://stillpointmag.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/STS-Erika-Shadows.mp3 SEEKING THE SELF: ERIKA Word Count: 441 by Seeking The Self As Stillpoint Magazine continues its collaboration with Seeking the Self, we meet Erika, who lost a loved one and her faith at the same time. How can the shadows of this experience rehabilitate her into a coming back to the self?
EXILE Word Count: 4,102 by Sokol Ferizi A short story on the exile of the body, tongue, mind, and soul. – With KOSTËRRC (CH) artwork by PETRIT HALILAJ