11 pages of poetry + fiction. Digital only. CONTRIBUTORS Natalie Helsel Julián Martinez Yamini Krishnan Will LaPorte Lauren Kalita Sarah Hilton Julia Meinwald Rowen Erickson Summer Farah SPRING CLEAN is a project hoping to interrogate and address questions and issues of cleanliness, renewal, flourishing, purity, illness, contamination, domesticity, and sustenance by situating them in their material and structural contexts. Who is clean? For what, and how? Is cleanliness an object or an absence? How do capitalism and empire flatten and aestheticise purity as a function of power and virtue? How is contagion different from dirt? Why do we clean, and when? What is ritual, and is it superficial? What is ‘self care’ and who is it for? Are ‘clean’ and ‘care’ synonymous? Why? Why not? Do you pick food off the ground after you’ve dropped it? Do you perform cleanliness for your lovers? Who is allowed to clean themselves and who is subsumed into landscape? Who are we cleaning for?