A(mend)ing Fabrications, by Samantha Giesen

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Often, being a woman, or being feminine, is associated with the color pink. Beginning with a “little pink dress,” A(mend)ing Fabrications discusses a queer woman’s journey with the color pink. Throughout childhood, she loved the color; however, as she grows, her relationship with color evolves as she grapples with her queerness.

Threading together queerness, femininity, and color, this collection explores the impact of societal expectations and associations. Does pink always suggest femininity? Can the relationship between a queer woman and the color pink be mended?

Samantha Giesen is from Belle Plaine, Minnesota, and graduated from Morningside University in May 2025 with a Bachelor’s degree in English. In her first year at Morningside, she took a creative writing class where she fell in love with poetry. That same year she won first place in Morningside University’s art and literary magazine, Kiosk. In her final year of college, she worked as Editor-in-Chief of Kiosk and worked on her honors thesis A(mend)ing Fabrications.