Photos by Laura Ingram and Erina Law | Collage by Marlenne Jasso Welcome to a new monthly feature on Mimp Magazine. This is (Extra)ordinary Women, a column that showcases the thoughts, ideas, inspirations and passions of ‘ordinary’ girls from the real everyday lives of Mimp writers. The ladies of this column are the ones that don’t usually get interviewed. They haven’t written a book, started a clothing line or found YouTube fame (not yet anyway!) but their voices need to b

Photo by Ian Keteku The first time I heard one of Sabrina Benaim’s poems, I was having one of those days where you just feel… ugh. Like a basin of dirty dishwater. The poem was called ‘First Date’ and it was magic. Sabrina’s poetry is filled with this incredible sort of whimsy and truth and rawness, and after listening, all of a sudden I felt like all the dirt had been polished off. I felt empowered. Less like dishwater and more like myself again. In this interview, I got

My best friend and I have this theory that parts of our soul come from the same star. Perhaps that explains why our lives seem to intertwine so closely and why we can always, without fail, make each other feel okay again. To my best friend, my sister, these poems are for you. Here’s to many more years of love and sisterhood, coffee shop hopping and late-night FaceTime sessions. Photo by: Hailey Asquin poem i (my best friend, my sister) my best friend is a girl made of ink an