As your tongue explores the newly empty spot in your mouth, carefully tracing the gummy territory and feeling for the poke of the new tooth — eager and ready to break through the surface — you can’t help but feel as if the loss of what was makes way for what will be.
Baby teeth are lost, but this is really no loss at all. Baby teeth are outgrown after they have taught us how to bite, chew, and swallow what life gives us. Baby teeth are what lead us to our adult teeth, help us develop and grow, and use our mouth for other, more important activities: gritting teeth, biting our tongues, speaking out. This issue is for all of the above: allowing us to digest topics we may not give a second thought otherwise, speaking out about what we believe, and no longer biting our tongues in regards to things that are hard to talk about. Open wide…
Issue Contents
News & Views
Get Out and Vote by Isabel Brooke
You have the power to change this country
Gentrification Expressby Calissa Brown
How the rich are taking advantage of disenfranchised neighborhoods
