PubLab Journal

Presenting Publab 2023: (dis)connection, (dis)illusion, (dis)embodiment. Featuring new essays, fiction, and poetry, we’re closing the distances between us. larbpublab.org/issue-six-2023

A translator of the everyday, a medium of ritual and routine. Monica Carrier’s world is one where the sacred meets the absurd. Commune with her art portfolio, on view now in PubLab 8.0. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/mon…

In Monica Carrier’s work, she acts more like a medium or translator than an artist. Carrier’s world unfolds in PubLab 2025, out now. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/mon…

“As I age, I find myself to be more at peace with myself.” The wisdom of life and womanhood travels across generations in @thewhywhygirl’s “Aging Like Fine Wine.” Read in PubLab 8.0. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/agi…

“Which one of us is the elder, then, and which the truly young at heart?” @thewhywhygirl shares the wisdom of a life well lived in “Aging Like Fine Wine,” for PubLab 8.0. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/agi…

“Holding her fatherless child and her Mennonite faith tight as the train slowed into a little outpost, nearly lost in a sea of pale prairie grass, did she doubt God?” Melinda Mullet chronicles her homesteading foremothers’ resilience. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/ico…

“It took more than some blowing dust to make her bow her faithfully covered head in submission.” Melinda Mullet traces her familial lineage of female icons back to the early 20th century in Montana. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/ico…

Who gets to decide a city’s identity? Abel Reyes weighs Boise’s past of moral panic and persecution against its modern, pinkwashed profile in “On Infamous Crimes Against Nature.” larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/on-…

In “On Infamous Crimes Against Nature,” Abel Reyes examines how the scandal that ensued complicates the city’s current reputation as a queer safe haven. Read now in the newest issue of PubLab 8.0. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/on-…

The narrator of this flash fiction piece comes face to face with the quiet horror of group indifference as a London townhouse goes up in flames. Read Victoria Albert’s “Execution” in PubLab 8.0. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/the…

“Still she didn’t answer. They stared up at the building with blank eyes, like worshippers.” In Victoria Albert’s short story, a Christmas Eve fire forces a young Londoner to witness the terror of group apathy. Read now in Publab 8.0. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/the…

What does hetero dating culture have in common with fresh meat over the flame? Find out in Shannon Young’s “I Get So Hungry When You Say You Love Me: Feminist Cannibalism,” for PubLab 8.0. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/i-g…

In Mimi Cave’s 2022 film, “Fresh,” Shannon Young finds an apt metaphor for 21st-century hetero dating culture: cannibalism. Read “I Get So Hungry When You Say You Love Me: Feminist Cannibalism” in PubLab 8.0. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/i-g…

“A drink for celebrating, a drink after a long day. There is always a reason to celebrate, there are always long days.” A poem about death, time, and the quiet beauty of coming undone in Libby Hsieh’s poem "I'm Not Ready But It’s Time.” larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/i-a…

“Every year is my last year. Every day is my only day.” A reflection on endings, unraveling, and the strange beauty in falling apart in Libby Hsieh's full poem "I'm Not Ready But It’s Time” for PubLab 8.0. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/i-a…

A family photo. A red thermos. A well-loved teddy bear. In “My Suitcase of Fragments,” Marta Gosovska poignantly narrativizes her experience as a Ukrainian refugee through an inventory of the items she packed. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/my-…

“People forced from their homes by fear don’t drink tea from delicate porcelain cups adorned with little flowers.” Marta Gosovska weaves the past and present together through objects in “My Suitcase of Fragments.” larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/my-…

“She wasn’t a protofeminist icon, and we do a disservice to her and to ourselves to try and resurrect her as such.” In “The Women Historical Fiction Forgets,” Emily Martin argues we must embrace historic female figures in all their complexity. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/the…

“Women never needed a fictional liberator to enjoy rich interior lives or to find ways to act upon their passions.” Emily Martin’s “The Women Historical Fiction Forgets” explores what is lost when fictional characters are prioritized over real women. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/the…

What do landscapes remember? Kari Varner’s art traces the invisible marks of industry, agriculture, and human presence. View her portfolio now in PubLab 8.0. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/kar…

Satellite scans. Soil samples. Industrial production. Kari Varner’s art portfolio asks how we come to value altered environments. Part fieldwork, part memory, her portfolio is now on view in Publab 2025. larbpublab.org/2025/07/24/kar…