Locksteps

hyenas with clenched fists raised against patriarchy against state proudly raised  hyenas that sneak around easily in a country that…

29 August 2025 | Mariam Nazaryan

Objects of EMMA

24 August 2025 | Nairy Eivazy

Armenian Eyes

I was always curious about why people smell the way they do but the thing about my  mother’s smell was…

15 August 2025 | Astghik Baghinyan

duality / two worlds collide

a queer superstar persona encounters a boy with a plastic AK-47 in a sunny february yerevan park they – in…

21 June 2025 | Hovsep Markarian

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American Boys

The first thing Darius told me was a lie.

“Got an A. You?”
“Same,” I replied, keeping my paper face down. 

We were each other’s first friend, I’d like to think. Despite being inches shorter than I was, he stood with confidence, as if he hadn’t landed two months prior. Dark tight curls covered his head, eyes brown with a tint of redwood if you looked close enough, and eyebrows thick above them. I envied his long eyelashes, even as a child. It didn’t take long until I found out he envied me, too.

16 June 2025 | René Zadoorian

Transcendence

«Ո՞ւր ես» Where are you? Wandering in yellowed maps along lines swooping and curving to touchtime-buried footsteps paths of storied ancestors…

06 June 2025 | Aline Keledjian

They Left Their Home Behind and The Rug

“They Left Their Home Behind, Number 4 20”x20” Mixed media 2024 Photo credit: Mary Asatryan This work is part of…

23 May 2025 | Dalar Alahverdi