All posts by Guest Contributor
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Dedicated to the next century of Queer Asian artists and activists
By Celeste Chan and Margaret Rhee Dear future ones: . They will say we have done nothing. ……….That we have no one, …………………no history, no...
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Love Note: Anamaría Flores on Love as a Radical Act
By Anamaría Flores In a white male supremacist heteronormative puritanical judeo-christian culture such as the one that characterizes the united states, the most revolutionary act...
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On Love, Action, and Lesbian-Feminism
By Julie R. Enszer Writing about lesbian-feminist publishers in the 1970s and 1980s, I am haunted. Often I wake with a fragment from a poem...
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The Mother by Afuwa
Afuwa is a Guyanese-born artist, facilitator, and writer who uses myth and constructions of identity to question nearly everything. She lives/works on unceded Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, Squamish...
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All the Ways to Sing in Portuguese
By Caits Meissner For Flonia I once loved the split fruit of a woman, scooping the seeds from the apple’s thick core, a dual moon I...
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on mothers and daughters, sisters and lovers
By Sasanka Jinadasa see, #solidarity is a word more easily tagged than practiced and I don’t know how I feel about using a #hashtag in...
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For the Love of Freedom: Writing, Radical Praxis and the Transformative Power of a Slave’s Words
By Ernest L. Gibson, III When Frederick Douglass wrote “My feet have been so cracked with the frost, that the pen with which I am writing...
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Rev. Kyndra Danyelle Frazier on Radical Love
By Rev. Kyndra Danyelle Frazier Love can radically be re-imagined as an emotive action and response shared by all sentient beings that creates, heightens, and...
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What’s Love Got To Do With It?
By Raidah Shah Idil I am estranged from my father, and no, I don’t like talking about it. Why bring it up in the public sphere?...
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A Reach That Remains
By Tiana Reid There is a file on my computer saved as “fathers day.doc.” It reads in full: fathers day crossed-legged in the back of...
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l-o-v-e by t’ai freedom ford
By t’ai freedom ford even with its selfish, gaping mouth always hungering for anything that throbs. even with its greedy hands that rob the day...
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Aperture by Stacey Balkun
By Stacey Balkun Love note for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1900-1979, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, discovered the composition of stars. The Harvard moths were...
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Takiyah Nur Amin on Love as a Radical Act
By Takiyah Nur Amin How might love be re-imagined as a radical praxis that can bring about social transformation? Those of us committed to social...
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Jamie Utt on Love as a Radical Act
By Jamie Utt Everything in our popular lore and culture teaches us that love is a feeling, a whimsical but ephemeral emotion that’s all-consuming for...
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On Refusal, Privilege, and the Calcifying of the Soul
By Jason Craige Harris I am Other. When I come knocking at the door of your soul, you may refuse me, but not without consequence....
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Love letter to white people
By Joe Osmundson White people, I love you. I really do. Not because I am a white person myself. This is not a story of...
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A Radical Love Letter to my son
By Sarah Mantilla Griffin Dear Son, I love you. I have chosen how to love you. I love you radically, and I hope that this...
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Evelyn Blackwood on Love and Family
By Evelyn Blackwood When gay people were the deviants of society, and were accused of engaging in illicit and immoral acts, it was easy to...
