A translator of the everyday, a medium of ritual and routine. Monica Carrier’s world is one where the sacred meets the absurd. View her portfolio in PubLab 8.0.
@monicacandoit@peep_space
The good times you'll be thinking about on your deathbed. PubLab 8.0, out now at our #linkinprofile. /2025/07/24/monica-carrier-art-portfolio/
“I have learned from Aaji that aging offers many gifts—one of them being the luxury to widen one’s interests and to engage one’s body and mind in the delights of new learning.”
Ageing has so much more to offer than you might expect. Don’t shut yourself out from what your elders have to teach and read Bhakti Verma’s (@thewhywhygirl ) “Aging Like Fine Wine.” The good times you'll be thinking about on your deathbed. PubLab 8.0, out now. Read at our #linkinprofile.
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"I’ve never worn a cap, black or white. But in sunlight, my hair glows red—a burning covering each time I bow my head in prayer.” In “Iconography—Holy Mothers,” Melinda Mullet (@melindamulletwrites ) traces her familial lineage of female icons back to the beginning of the 20th century in Montana, painting a sweeping story of female strength and resilience against unyielding land and male violence.
The good times you'll be thinking about on your deathbed. PubLab 8.0, out now. Read at our #linkinprofile. /2025/07/24/iconography-holy-mothers/
Boise, Idaho: “A city so eager to preserve its image of decency that it sacrificed its most disposable members.” Read Abel Reyes’ (@abelreyeslb ) reckoning with the city's complicated queer history in “On Infamous Crimes Against Nature.” The good times you'll be thinking about on your deathbed. PubLab 8.0, out now. Read at our #linkinprofile.
/2025/07/24/on-infamous-crimes-against-nature/
The narrator of this flash fiction piece comes face to face with the quiet horror of group indifference as a London townhouse goes up in flames. Read Victoria Albert’s “Execution.”
The good times you'll be thinking about on your deathbed. PubLab 8.0, out now at our #linkinprofile. /2025/07/24/the-execution/
What does hetero dating culture have in common with fresh meat over the flame? Find out in @shannon.l.young ’s “I Get So Hungry When You Say You Love Me: Feminist Cannibalism,” for PubLab 8.0.
The good times you'll be thinking about on your deathbed. PubLab 8.0, out now at our #linkinprofile. /2025/07/24/i-get-so-hungry-when-you-say-you-love-me-feminist-cannibalism/
“Every year is my last year. Every day is my only day.”
A reflection on endings, unraveling, and the strange beauty in falling apart.
Read Libby Hsieh’s (@mal.vidrez ) full poem "I'm Not Ready But It’s Time.” The good times you'll be thinking about on your deathbed. PubLab 8.0, out now at our #linkinprofile.
/2025/07/24/i-am-not-ready-but-it-is-time/
"When the world begins to crumble, we shed our thiсkened skin and expose our childishness. It’s the tender layer beneath that keeps us whole.” Organized as an inventory, Marta Gosovska’s (@martagosovska ) “My Suitcase of Fragments” deftly weaves the past and present together through the collection of objects she packed when she left her home in Ukraine as a refugee.
We’re all running out of time. Publab 8.0 is out now—read it before it rots at our #linkinprofile. /2025/07/24/my-suitcase-of-fragments/
"The cost is not just historical inaccuracy—it’s a diminished capacity to reckon with the actual constraints, compromises, and partial victories that shape women’s lives.” Emily Martin explores the challenges of narrativizing women’s archives—and argues that we must embrace historic female figures in all their complexity.
We’re all running out of time. Publab 8.0 is out now—read it before it rots at our #linkinprofile. /2025/07/24/the-women-historical-fiction-forgets/
Satellite scans. Soil samples. Industrial production.
Kari Varner’s art portfolio asks how we come to value altered environments.Part fieldwork, part memory, her portfolio is now on view in PubLab 8.0.
We’re all running out of time. Publab 8.0 is out now—read it before it rots at our #linkinprofile. /2025/07/24/kari-varner-porfolio/
“Beneath every tidy, self-evident interface—every archive, calendar, or diagnostic code—is an impossibly cluttered junk drawer of decisions.” Jasminne Morataya sorts through the drawer in her review of Stairs by Steve Kado at The Fulcrum Press, “Happy Heavenly Birthday Brad Renfro,” available in PubLab 8.0.
We’re all running out of time. Publab 8.0 is out now—read it before it rots at our #linkinprofile.
/2025/07/24/happy-heavenly-birthday-brad-renfro/
“I can still talk to her whenever I want, it’s just hard to when I know she’s not really here anymore.”
If you could talk to the digitized consciousness of your deceased loved ones, would you? Simon Andrews’ (@writersimon ) sci-fi short story, “What You Missed While You Were Dead,” tackles grief and memory in a post-AI world. We’re all running out of time. Publab 8.0 is out now—read it before it rots at our #linkinprofile.
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