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Origin Stories

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Sarah Teresa Cook
Sarah Teresa Cook (she/they) is an autistic poet and essayist whose work explores perception, creative practice, and identity. As a creative mentor, she works intimately with other writers and neurodivergent folx across genre and medium. Her words have appeared in Rattle, Write or Die, Porterhouse Review, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and in Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Nonfiction by Autistic Writers. Based in the Columbia River Gorge, she publishes For the Birds, a Substack newsletter, and dreams of writing the “Before & After” puzzles for Wheel of Fortune. Learn more at sarahteresacook.com and sarahcook.substack.com.
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What Aristotle taught me about being a fully-fledged woman

“First of all, what am I doing here?” he asks me to ask. The men are aplenty, the men are a-coming in droves, little noah’s arks of two of every opinion (his and his). Both ideas have, at this point in time, been accounted for; we know where things with feathers go, we know where shelled ones sleep. Ideas are for a-counting. Men are for paychecks, and skirt steaks, and tried & true. Men make me a little blue, which is the girliest thing about me, though I myself can’t be a woman because this beak makes it impossible to wear lipstick.