Chloe Skye Landisman

Chloe Landisman is an up-and-coming fiction and hybrid author in New England. Her poetry and prose is forthcoming in Iō Literary Journal, Fearsome Critters, and Ruminate Magazine. She's written academic articles for The Daily Fandom as well as done public relations work for a COVID-19 online support group run by Body Politic, a queer-owned wellness collective based in New York City. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and studied literature, creative and professional writing, and Japanese Language. When not in school she spends her time reading, writing, and watching 1970s Japanese horror films.

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To Turn Around

Today, I dressed myself like a young-adult novel heroine, sporting a faux leather jacket and a red scarf to guard my face from particulates that wander the air, seeking out a body to poison. I had bought the scarf when I was sixteen and constructing a costume (we call it a cosplay, within the community) for my first anime convention. It was odd to exalt the piece from the costume, wrap it around my face to armor myself from a contagion that was very real. It doesn’t have a filter like the real,
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Pandemic Wisdom From Hayao Miyazaki's Films

Themes of disaster echo throughout Hayao Miyazaki’s work; while these works comment on the horrific nature of the events they’re modeled to represent, Susan Napier, a Japanese studies scholar, argues that they are actually meant to be vehicles of rehearsal of future trauma in an environment that is safe for the reader — an animated film. His work focuses on a number of different disasters and how the youth reacts to them, Keeping human comprehension of contagion, trauma, and disaster in mind, w