{"id":19936,"date":"2025-06-25T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/?p=19936"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:09:04","slug":"pride-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/pride-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride, June &#8217;25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Pride<\/strong>, <strong>June &#8217;25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-social-links-is-layout-765c4724 wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-facebook  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61556140010887\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" 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Anthony When,<strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong> <strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong>Prayer for Another Hurricane Season from Afar,<strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong> &amp; <strong><strong>\u201c<\/strong><\/strong>Here Come the Girls<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> by Stacey Balkun<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f4cb9b758936473747ad63218b74c239\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/ricegay\/\">Ricegay<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> by Joefel Bolo<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-7df47ecf0ad08986f718a3015800a480\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/versatile-villanelle-sizzling-villanelle\/\"><strong>Versatile Villanelle\u201d &amp; <\/strong>\u201cSizzling Villanelle<\/a>\u201c by Dustin Brookshire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-def33290a742bfd02113ecc65612924d\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<strong>C<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/climax-is-the-closest-thing-to-surrender-fermentation-daydreaming-in-starbucks-that-my-husband-is-queer\/\">limax is the Closest Thing to Surrender,<strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong> &#8220;fermentation,&#8221; &amp; <strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong>daydreaming in Starbucks that my husband is Queer<\/a><\/strong>\u201d<\/strong> by Britt Bustos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1e7014d682be2c08fd570b959998a59e\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/trans-substantiation-hypertrophy-lunacy\/\">Trans Substantiation,<strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong> <strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong>Hypertrophy,<strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong> &amp; <strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong>Lunacy<\/a><\/strong>\u201d<\/strong> by Adrian Costello<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-b47b84c239e937ee6dd89e1ade213bd8\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/farmland\/\">Farmland<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> by Craig Cotter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-bd4aad2fd6267bf616e5d59927883498\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/there-were-signs\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"19988\">There Were Signs<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> by <strong><strong>Jazmine Becerra Green<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-8895eada211668159f5e9b6e364b0dac\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong><strong><strong>\u201c<\/strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/liberation-will-come-euphoria\/\"><strong><strong>Liberation Will Come\u201d<\/strong> &amp; <\/strong>\u201cEuphoria<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> by Icarus Olsen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f4e431831a859dc007fa2e7fcb93c6c9\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201cA<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/at-fifteen-you-tell-me-i-will-probably-never-be-okay-clueless-phoebe-bridgers-and-i-were-all-born-six-months-apart-and-that-feels-like-it-means-something-the-poem-i-write-after-reading-toni\/\">t fifteen you tell me I will probably never be okay,<strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong> <strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong>Clueless, Phoebe Bridgers, and I were all born six months apart and that feels like it means something,<strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong> &amp; <strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong>The poem I write after reading Toni Morrison\u2019s Sula<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> by Bleah Patterson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-0a4075cb88be44680dd27d3c6d5da54d\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/fca-doughnuts\/\">FCA Doughnuts<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> by Mike Piero<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f8c835ed98b8e739708a0d03398a4e31\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<\/strong><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/poem-after-a-student-at-my-university-got-on-the-mic-at-graduation-and-said-trans-people-didnt-exist-poem-as-instructions-for-survival\/\"><strong><strong>poem after a student at my university got on the mic at graduation<\/strong><\/strong> <strong><strong>and said trans people didn\u2019t exist<strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong> &amp; <strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong>poem as instructions for survival<\/strong><\/strong><\/a><strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong> by Nat Raum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-ea8730f6b495794933df6e57e2de1577\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/wolf-moon-1986-blood-moon-2025\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"20030\">Wolf Moon, 1986<strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong> &amp; <strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong>Blood Moon, 2025<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> by Daniel Nathan Terry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-fe7e478f79a4bfe7a361900ae306e3d9\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/lazarus-the-first-books-they-burned\/\">Lazarus<strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong> &amp; <strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong>The First Books They Burned<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> by Francis Waguespack<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-78b052d844071a2871628c698f6acf95\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/queer-pursuits-lights-the-moon-to-spite-the-sun-mood-48-is-a-gay-one\/\">Queer Pursuits,<strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong> <strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong>Lights the Moon to Spite the Sun,<strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong> <\/strong> &amp; <strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong>Mood 48 Is A Gay One<\/a><\/strong>\u201d<\/strong> by Bradley David Waters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-c6238818ddc7986c0bb319a044e129a9\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/bra\/\">Bra<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> by Lola Willis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>Creative Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-90d49c6873be5240fd17c0fa46928d28\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/how-to-knit-a-trans-solidarity-scarf\/\">How to Knit a Trans-Solidarity Scarf<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> by Robbie Gamble<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-e7f9d633ead3128f486de7b468386c6a\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/cracked\/\">Cracked<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> by Nonah Palmer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-e0849795bf87d698408b8111f3255ef9\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#d1dee5\"><strong><strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2025\/06\/25\/unconditionally-loved\/\">Unconditionally Loved<\/a>\u201d<\/strong> by Nicole R. Zimmerman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" id=\"Singerbio\"><strong>Deborah Chava Singer<\/strong> is originally from San Diego, California where she studied truth with the Mesa College Theatre Company and Queer Players. She currently resides in Washington state. Her writing has appeared in <em>Disabled Voices Anthology, Stonewall\u2019s Legacy, Chantwood Magazine, Hashtag Queer 2, Santa Fe Literary Review, The Human Touch, Cirque, MUSE, Jonathan, Chaffin, Twisted Vine, Off the Rocks<\/em>, and others. Her visual art has been published in <em>Molecule Magazine, Harmony Magazine, Up the Staircase Quarterly, City Works Journal, Blue Mesa Review, Cirque<\/em>, and <em>Off the Coast<\/em> and been included in shows in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. In 2024 she shared her Time.Light.Motion photography series in the Corner Gallery at the Camas Public Library in Camas, WA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">To learn more about submitting your work to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/boudin-submissions\/\">Boudin<\/a><\/em> or applying to McNeese State University&#8217;s Creative Writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/mfa-application-submissions\/\">MFA program<\/a>, please visit Submissions for details.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/Color-Print-Logo-with-full-text-1-300x183.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17781\" style=\"width:70px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/Color-Print-Logo-with-full-text-1-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/Color-Print-Logo-with-full-text-1-1024x625.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/Color-Print-Logo-with-full-text-1-768x469.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/Color-Print-Logo-with-full-text-1.png 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pride, June &#8217;25 Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson Guest Editor: Robbie Hess Managing Editor: Karris Rae Associate Editor: Taryn White Assistant Editors: Leah Joseph, Jade Turner, Meilyn Woods Deborah Chava Singer, &#8220;Rainbow Blossoms,&#8221; Digital Artwork Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson Letter from the Guest Editor by Robbie Hess Fiction \u201cCircle of Fifths\u201d by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":20507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,203,231],"tags":[75,146,100,101,145,26,18],"class_list":["post-19936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boudin","category-boudinissues","category-pride","tag-boudin","tag-fiction-2","tag-flashfiction","tag-microfiction","tag-poetry-2","tag-fiction","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19936"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20167,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19936\/revisions\/20167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}