Title: “An Ordinary Tuesday” and “Reclamation”

Artist: J.L. Orango

Date Created: October 2026

Words from the Artist: “an ordinary tuesday note: Many paths lead me to where I am. 6 years of IPV, a lifetime of DV, leading to a BPD diagnosis. Therapy has saved me by encouraging many writing projects. I use words to remember. I use words to relive. I use words to heal.

reclamation artist note: J.L. Orango is a British Columbia writer whose poetry and nonfiction explore survival, coercive control, motherhood, memory, and the ordinary life built after violence. Her work is forthcoming with the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE), BlinkerLit/Duosama, Synchronized Chaos, and SQUID Literary & Arts Magazine. She is the author of the completed literary memoir The Girl Who Came Back.”