Protected: Upstream Swimming: Border Poetics, Politics & Aesthetics;

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Us versus Them, Them versus Us

We might die without successfully changing
our names on a government database
but we know how to live, and we use our hands
like peeling rubber until nothing is left but smoke
Writing Yourself Into History as a Transmasculine Adoptee, Grownup Emo-Kid, “Career Texan:” An Interview with KB Brookins

KB Brookins is trying their hardest to be brave. The Black trans masculine poet and author of the collections How to Identify Yourself with a Wound and Freedom House just released their first memoir, Pretty.
Disembodied Dreams of Sacrifice

Read Juania Sueños’s review of Rios de La Luz’s Altar to Liminal Saints.
Wilted Flowers, Generational Trauma, & Ecstasy

Waiting for either a Caress or a Blow

Read mónica teresa ortiz’s review of Saúl Hernández’s debut poetry collection, How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters
“I Learn Forgiveness Inside My Father’s Life†A Son’s Journey Through Family Wounds & Redemption

A Review of Sebastîan R. Páramo’s debut poetry collection, “A Portrait of Us Burning.”
The House Next Door is On Fire and We Have to Keep on Living

A review of jo reyes-boitel’s newest poetry collection, “the matchstick litanies”
Not In My Jeans

A photo series of a sexual awareness campaign created by Victoria Serna
Having nothing to wear

Fiction by Karen Gaytan