Hopeless Clueless Theyby asks: A bit over a month ago, I started going on dates with Bee, who, like me, is nonbinary. The connection between us became rapidly intense, and we started talking about what it would mean if we started dating more seriously.  Bee initiated whenever we would hold hands and kiss in public…

This firefly wants to be a cometfor us, she orbits and blinks so ferociously,demanding our attention,our gaze, in the faceof a disappointing sky. The moon, always herself,(never a disappointment)watches on. Like the firefly,she makes me wonderwhat close, beautiful things we miss,peering into darkness,searching for ‘better things’to wish on. Lynne Sargent is a writer, aerialist, and…

Untitled Peter Pan Game Deep in the woods, winterFast approaching >Objective: collect twigs, build shelter Me and the lost boys shiverUnderbrush and other arborealDetritus slipping throughOur ice-sculpted grip.We move like in a molasses-slow dreamOur noses burning withThe imminence of snow >Objective: collect twigs, build shelter This is no Neverland, nor promised landOf fairy-dusted marvelsMe and…

Boob Noob asks: I have dated other folks with boobs before (and I have boobs myself), so I understand they can be fun and nice. However my current girlfriend loves having her boobs touched – and not just in a sexual way. She likes having them casually grabbed anytime we’re somewhere private. She finds it…

when she tells me i have all the emotion of a robot        i think first of curiosity (the martian rover, not the serial cat killer)                     and why it wanders the desolate planet              up and down slopes steep and gravel-strewn          across vein-like dry riverbeds and rugged terrain for miles, treads red-rust dusted from gusts…

Sara Rivera’s black-out poetry piece Translaciónóicalsnart (2017-2021) is an ongoing series that usestexts from publicly available art exhibition catalogs to examine the both fruitful and fraughtrelationship of patronage and feudalism to Philippine art production. Sara Rivera is a cultural worker from the Philippines. Her works are informed by her informal and formal experience as an…

       “This was all the wrong choice.” I lean into my pile of laundry and scratch at the nodes wiring my scalp. My nail catches a scab and I peel it off, digging into slick flesh.        Mari’s face flickers. “How do you know it was wrong?”        A thousand kilometers away, my therapist sees…

Instead of an afterlife in a heaven or a hell for those who are good or bad, respectively, there is a temporary sort of purgatory for all. In this pit stop, you might stay for what nears an agonizing eternity. Or, you might drift through on the way to the blissful afterlife, which is for…

Savage Pageant by Jessica Q. StarkPoetryBirds LLC, 2020 As historical documents are increasingly being discovered and recontextualized, how can we, as individuals, similarly realign ourselves in the context of these renewed discussions? Although not explicitly asked, Jessica Q. Stark’s poetry collection Savage Pageant pushes this question to the surface in an effort to write its own…

Stone Butch Bitch asks: Hi! I’m genderqueer and stone butch. I first came out as butch during the beginning of quarantine, and it’s now the most salient piece of my identity.  Before quarantine began, I had my drag debut. My drag persona is a queen and, for the most part, extremely feminine. To maintain my…