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Aren’t I a Travesti Too?

For Marcelo Secron Bessa Translated from the Portuguese by Raquel Parrine, Lauren Darnell, and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes1 We remain unknown to ourselves, we seekers after knowledge, even to ourselves: and with good reason. We have never sought after ourselves—so how should we one day find ourselves? It has rightly been said that: “Where your treasure […]

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For Marcelo Secron Bessa Translated from the Portuguese by Raquel Parrine, Lauren Darnell, and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes1 We remain unknown to ourselves, we seekers after knowledge, even to ourselves: and with good reason. We have never sought after ourselves—so how should we one day find ourselves? It has rightly been said that: “Where your treasure

Cinderella

The trans story is the heroine has to be trans because nobody else in the capital sharesher size. The prince must roam from house to house, from mansion to cottage to townhome, trying to find the one girl who came to the winter solstice ballin glass slippers (they must have hurt like hellby the end

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The trans story is the heroine has to be trans because nobody else in the capital sharesher size. The prince must roam from house to house, from mansion to cottage to townhome, trying to find the one girl who came to the winter solstice ballin glass slippers (they must have hurt like hellby the end

Mask for Mask by JD Scott Bookcover

Letting and Letting Go: Mask for Mask by JD Scott (New Rivers Press)

Ultimately, the poems themselves in Mask for Mask arise out of smoke. You reach to grasp something, and out comes a letter or a word, and out of that word is triggered a memory of some sort of self that had been tucked away that has been let out from behind the mask or the cage

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Ultimately, the poems themselves in Mask for Mask arise out of smoke. You reach to grasp something, and out comes a letter or a word, and out of that word is triggered a memory of some sort of self that had been tucked away that has been let out from behind the mask or the cage

one above below by gala mukomolova front cover collage aside the author's headshot

Deep Love, Deep Sorrow in the Same Body: An Interview with Gala Mukomolova

“I’m excited by the nature of genre, like gender, to eschew formula and boundaries. I think since the world is on fire, our words are getting hotter, more urgent, more unrepentant.”

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“I’m excited by the nature of genre, like gender, to eschew formula and boundaries. I think since the world is on fire, our words are getting hotter, more urgent, more unrepentant.”

alien child painting by carroll cloar with families dressed in white standing across a stream in the rocks

On Return & Redemption: Ed Madden in Conversation with Kwame Dawes

“Caregiving isn’t just doing things for someone, it is an attitude toward the doing and toward the person and the person’s body. It’s a turning toward the other.”

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“Caregiving isn’t just doing things for someone, it is an attitude toward the doing and toward the person and the person’s body. It’s a turning toward the other.”

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