Summer Smith is a Salisbury University Creative Writing alum from Baltimore, MD. They enjoy writing poetry and nonfiction, playing cozy games, and collecting trinkets. Smith’s greatest goal is to create community through writing.
Inspired by thinkers like Clarice Lispector, Hélène Cixous, Susan Sontag and Fernanda Young, Thais Diniz explores how femininity and trauma become aesthetics under the algorithm.
Summer Smith explores how classic Filipino dishes like lumpia, balut, and sinigang connect them to family, culture, and key moments in their life.
In their deeply personal and powerfully reflective essay, Summer Smith explores their journey of self-diagnosing as autistic, recounting formative experiences of social isolation, sensory sensitivity, and the exhausting need to mask in neurotypical spaces.
A personal essay about what winter has meant to our contributor, Summer Smith, up until recently, what the coming of spring means, and letting the cool in-between be a soothing transition.
A think piece on the impacts ableism has on mental and therefore physical health (both in America and worldwide) today– including BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ disabled people’s thoughts and experiences, an ongoing pandemic, the forgotten disabled people in natural disasters, the challenges of Section 504 and DEI and what they mean, and inclusive resources.
