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An essay titled 'No Brother of Mine Will Play the Flute' examines how boys are discouraged from taking up the flute, an instrument widely coded as feminine in many Western school bands. The piece traces where this stigma comes from and what it costs children who drop activities they love to fit gender expectations. Readers are debating personal experiences with gendered instrument norms.
- 2Award-winning poet Tom Bierovic shares new haiga●# haiga by Tom Bierovic (IG @tombierovic ). Tom is a widely published, award-winning poet. When not reading or writing,
American poet Tom Bierovic, a widely published and award-winning writer, has presented a new haiga, a form combining haiku with visual art. Alongside his poetry, Bierovic is known as an author of books on trading, including "Playing for Keeps in Stocks and Futures", and as a musician who plays Native American flutes and hand drums. Readers are reacting to his latest work in the haiku and haiga community.