Andrew Garvey (Des Plaines, IL) Nobody knows what to call you, Is it he? She? They? …..no never they, they is plural.. you can’t use they singularly. It? Sometimes.. rather than use they and make them a person. Use it…
Write the Unwritten, Become an Enforcer
Michael G. Williams (Durham, NC) The very first time I had sex with a man, we were breaking multiple laws. We were trespassing. It was in an old, abandoned quarry in the town where I grew up. We met via…
Girl Shoes For Sale. Never Worn.
Zizia Swan (Meadville, PA) Johnny can’t go home. He wants to… Sometimes, But there’s someone, Something more like, Who wears a mask. Someone (something), Who takes his seat At the table Every morning. Someone (something), Who says, “Morning Dad.” Dad…
MORENX
Maria Del Pilar Lopez-Saavedra (Colombia) MORENX is a wall installation of a (self) portrait created by black text on white paper nailed to the wall that describes “my” body. Although MORENX is a self-portrait, the identity created by the text…
My Alien From Far Away
By Benjamin Poulos (Baltimore, MD) EXT. PARK LAWN- NIGHT Two female-bodied people lie outstretched on an expanse of well-maintained grass. They have honeysuckles arranged in loose crowns around their heads. The sky above them is completely clear. PATTI I…
Interview with Playwright MJ Kaufman
Bailey Roper (Dallas, TX) MJ Kaufman is a queer playwright and devised theatre artist working in New York City and Philadelphia. Their work has been seen at the Huntington Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, the New Museum, Clubbed Thumb, New…
720 Modes
By ShaNeia (Siigh) Lawrence (Greensboro, NC) The cause of my reaction has been following me with every breath I breath. It is as if reality has become a wide screen epic, even though I find it hard to believe, my…
Self Portrait As The Cosmos
Milo Gallagher (Sheldon, SC) You misgender me and I take my earrings off feeling like a fish mistaken for a deer Shame seeps in like oil I am far away already I am signs of life in another galaxy I…
Bubble
By Anonymous When I was in middle school, I became fascinated with a girl in my class. It wasn’t exactly a crush, just a mild interest. I didn’t understand what bisexuality was at that age. I ignored it until…
Of 99.5% or 5%
By ShaNeia(Siigh) Lawrence (Greensboro, NC) 99.5% of the time I like to say I’ve been consistent Steady to this label that society hold so dear Steady to fit inside the boundaries That I’m almost sure will always be Impossible to…
For a Good Time Call Economic Structures of the Mongolian People’s Republic
By Michael G. Williams (Durham, NC) I’m going to tell you a secret. I was a college undergraduate in the 1990’s. (That’s not the secret.) I don’t mean the early or late ‘90s, I mean the whole ‘90s. I wasn’t…
Becoming Billy Eye
By Billy Ingram (Greensboro,NC) When Saul Sufron toddled into Leonard Roth and Company in July 1980 it was a fairly unusual circumstance; he didn’t travel much for business outside his cavernous printing, advertising and publication domain in West Hollywood. Saul…
Passionflower
Sock Trull (Greensboro, NC) When you kiss me it feels like a word I don’t know Spiraling spiraling spiraling out of control i don’t know where I end and you begin All I know is that i end End in…