It’s My Favorites Monday, and I’d like to highlight: Queer Zine Lit.
What It Offers:
Manifestos - soap box talk from free form expression to essays
Free Verse
News Headlines
Message Board
Artwork
Links & Resources - on LGBT issues, fat acceptance movement, sexual freedom, racial diversity, and disability
What It’s Like:
“Identities are multiple. Identities are complex. And while we often are asked [...]
This post is a continuation of the same theme found in my poem, A Piece of Fruit. I wrote it in honor of April being Sexual Assault Awareness month.
I used to think rape was about desire.
I know better now.
I know better now because as a queer crip my body has never been the subject of [...]
Don’t
Push the button, you tell me
I look down at its red surface:
dial-a-nurse
I listen, but I want
to keep pushing - keep pushing! -
Until someone realizes the state we’re in
“Another girl came in, her girlfriend sat beside her -”
says the nurse, talking, - talking -
We are so quiet
I nod but wonder - girl friend or girlfriend?
You look [...]
I recently discovered Sophia Wallace’s Bios & Dykes photography project… her photographs take my breath away. It refreshes me to see an expression of queerness that explores real, beautiful people - the type of people that I love - raw butchness.
Have you ever had a conversation that didn’t bother you much at the time, but then it haunts you for days - even weeks, months? I had hoped to write an upbeat entry for today - describing some of the events of delving feet first into the blogosphere - but it seems life has intervened.
I [...]
