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
Untitled (Collages)
MAS
ORGULLO
Adachigahara
‘Queen Of’ Series
reveal
queer homes
Black Rage
A queer funeral
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…