The ELM

By Kaya Rubin 

If school is a place to learn 
Then please teach 
Teach me about genders 
Teach me about privilege and discrimination 
Teach me about me 
Teach me about
What 
I 

By Ella Lopez

From a young age, we are taught to be quiet, to simply sit and listen in a cross legged pose

Keep our heads down, be invisible, always do what we're told

To be an object of spectacle for a misogynistic audience

By Siena DeMink

I sit, drowning in the hateful comments.

Focus.

Focus on something more.

Waves pounding on the shore.

Crash crash.

The palm blows in the wind.

Swish swish.

By Felix Doggett

Today is gray, I see no light

Darkness creeps across the sky

The mud caked on my skin is like a barrier to block me out. 

The rain that falls makes me wet, but I can't move away. 

By Morgan Davis

The stars in the sky never stay still,
Just like us, orbiting without meaning, 
Instead finding their own.

We all, like the stars, have a center of gravity

By Marina Twohig

Female. Written on her birth certificate, the first time the world touches her identity.
Takes away an opportunity.