2017 Editorial Team: Abilene Donegan, Colleen Gundersen, Kelli Farrington, Nya McNeil, Nhawndie Smith, Skye Warren (Greensboro, NC) This year’s theme came from the need to celebrate those that have been criminalized or erased altogether by the established order. Our aim…
Author Archive for sylviagray
Teenage Romance
Zane Drees (Greensboro, NC) Teenage Romance shows a repeated cycle of failed romantic relationships and the way I felt I was letting my old love interests have power over me. After showing this to others I realized it’s a…
Untitled (Collages)
MAS
Maria Del Pilar Lopez-Saavedra (Colombia) MAS is an ongoing installation that chronicles POC representation, self love, community, and strength while simultaneously allowing for reflection on current political climate and immigration policies. MAS consists of various dark skin tones nailed to…
ORGULLO
Maria Del Pilar Lopez-Saavedra (Colombia) While reading Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Politics of Performance by José Esteban Muñoz I started thinking more deeply about the labels that I identify with, focusing on the label “Colombian” rather than the…
Adachigahara
Peter Haugen (Davidson, NC) Until very recently, I found great comfort in concealing my sources of shame and strife from other people. Most of the time, the idea of exposing my feelings or my secrets was unthinkable, but sometimes I…
‘Queen Of’ Series
Benjamin Thrash (Athens, GA) Queen of Sass and Sequins Queen of Spotlights and Suffering Queen of Passion and Pain Queen of Rage and Rhinestones
reveal
queer homes
Black Rage
A queer funeral
Yu Shijie (New York, NY) We can die differently and fabulously. When I was in high school in China, my English teacher told me that I have to learn to not to be gay otherwise I will go to hell…
LIFE (is a game)
The ABC’s of Life: Authority, Borders & Constructs
Nhawndie Smith (Greensboro, NC) I denounce the state for its continued violence on the oppressed. I denounce capitalism, the ways it exploits labor, consumes bodies and lays waste globally. I denounce colonization in all forms, specifically the false ownership of…
Wildflowers
Image: Pharoah Egbuna (Durham, NC) Poem: Rashida James-Saadiya (Durham, NC) I’m not seeing spirits they live here under skin embedded in bone a constant reminder there are white jackets lurking beyond your door don’t move they will smell you…
Dear Black Gay Boy
Jhonathan Hill (Greensboro, NC) Dear black gay boy You are… dramatic too over the top too colorful too involved Dear black gay boy you are life he opens up his lips and speaks to the air it listens Will you…