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Olivia Luchini
Apr 5, 2022
Dramaturgy
I think I might have been cast As an unknowing understudy Under your direction and pinned Under the weight of your woes The main actress...
Olivia Luchini
Mar 14, 2022
Pentobarbital
Stolen from the chain-linked pound Used to paw pads on cold, hard ground You brought me somewhere warm and light And with your heat I...
Olivia Luchini
Mar 10, 2022
Hecatomb
My body was used for communion Consumed until there was no more Flesh or blood to ravage But I was not an offering My hair was not lamb’s...
Olivia Luchini
Mar 10, 2022
Just A Babe
You did not want to take a lover Nor did you wish to be a partner And I – with my near-perfect vision Should have been able to analyze...
Olivia Luchini
Sep 7, 2019
She-Ra reboot earns a lukewarm pat on the back for body positivity
Guess who's back? It is me, the one who wrote a bunch of articles about body positivity in children's media and then disappeared into the...
Olivia Luchini
Aug 14, 2019
Loving Less and Loving More Are Uneven Sides of a Two-Person War
Life is caught between two polarized scenarios of loving someone more than they love you or having someone love you more than you love...
Olivia Luchini
Jul 28, 2019
Stiff and Growing Stiffer
We don’t free-fall into the pit for a singular reason. In reality, the fall is brought about by a multitude of individual strikes to the...
Olivia Luchini
Jul 24, 2019
The Summer the Crickets Sang in Fresno
When I graduated from the very university that everyone wanted me to go to and completed everything that anyone could want me to complete...
Olivia Luchini
Aug 31, 2018
Avatar and Second Chances
Spanning from 2005 to 2008 with 61 episodes total, Avatar: The Last Airbender rocked the realm of children's entertainment for every...
Olivia Luchini
Aug 28, 2018
The Sequoia Sisters
At the dawn of humanity, the people of Earth battled every emotion as if it were a blood-bursting war. From the purest joy to the deepest...
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