Alexis Kale

Alexis Kale is a queer writer living in Austin, Texas. She is currently an MFA candidate at Texas State University, and her work has previously been published in Coe Review and Wussy Mag.

Content by Alexis Kale

Red flowers die an dry out in their vase.

Arts & Culture, Field Notes,

On Writing Women, and Some Thoughts About Hyacinths

BY Alexis Kale

I often find myself reading female characters written by men and wondering if they have ever met a woman before. I find this even more disheartening when these men are my colleagues and I know they have met women before (because I am one of those women), but their female characters are flat or over-sexualized or they don’t speak the same language.