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The February Journal

Poetic essays

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  • This is a still from the movie 富貴逼人 (It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World, 1989), showing three people around a TV set, with one of them holding a video camera. A subtitle says ‘Daidi is playing cool.’

    Joey Chin

    A Situational Timeline of the Names I Go By

    This reflexive essay traces the changing meanings attached to names across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Through a personal and chronological account, it examines how names can carry assumptions about gender, family, culture, identity, and belonging. Moving across different linguistic and cultural contexts, the essay reflects on experiences of being named, renamed, misnamed, and addressed through different versions of the self.

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    Oksana Vasyakina

    The White Page Burns

    This poetic essay considers how politics changes optics of reading poems written more than fifty years ago. The author compares her feelings about Vsevolod Nekrasov’s text 'I’m silent/stay silent’ before and after the events of February 24, 2022.