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ISSUE 24: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
We are seeking writing submissions and an editorial artist for our 24th issue about grief.
After generations of unbridled loss and trauma, Black folks from across the diaspora have much to mourn. We’re interested in stories that capture grief in its many forms and faces.
Featured
WRITING
Fresh new pieces, hand-picked by our editors
Marbles
Grace Martin, at eight years old, held the world record for filling her mouth with marbles. Only, her name wasn’t Grace Martin then. She was Kaysha Williams.
By Mon Misir
Mon Misir (she/they) is a queer Black British writer and recovering lawyer based in London, UK. They use their writing to explore facets of their experience as a black woman, with a speculative bent. They have work published in the Decolonial Passage, Torch Literary Arts and Midnight & Indigo and are nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2025. You can find their links here: https://bio.site/Nomonbooks.
Review: The Ghost of Leslie-Fucking-Feinberg + What Could've Been
It’s a dewy, drizzling night in Williamsburg, burdened by similar winds that brought Dorothy and Toto to Oz. Inside The Vino Theater, there’s a sea of queer and trans twentysomethings eagerly awaiting What Could’ve Been, written by Lu Davis, and The Ghost of Leslie-Fucking-Feinberg, written by Kaila Tacazon.
by Cheyenne Edwards
Cheyenne Edwards (they/she) is a screenwriter, essayist, & narrative film storyteller. Cheyenne’s artistry builds on the undisputed principle that representation matters, but dares to take things a step further by putting their Black and queer—often lesbian-identified—characters in audacious situations bolstered by the sharp, ironic humor of their generation.
safe keeping
please, I mutter back,
I am not in the business of building ghosts,
and I think myself very little but
a woman blurred by the shadows who care for me:
by Charlinda A. Banks
Charlinda Banks (or Chachi!) graduated from Brown University in 2024 with a double concentration in Literary Arts and International Affairs. In college, she completed a creative writing thesis which centered queerness, ghosts, and a road trip. She is often thinking about family, language, spirituality, and conceptions of ‘truth.’ She also likes vampire stories. “safe keeping” is derived from a completely different idea of community ghost writing. She then thought of the ghosts that exist within herself and which blur her into existence.
featured writing
Fresh new pieces, hand-picked by our editors
Marbles
Grace Martin, at eight years old, held the world record for filling her mouth with marbles. Only, her name wasn’t Grace Martin then. She was Kaysha Williams.
By Mon Misir
Mon Misir (she/they) is a queer Black British writer and recovering lawyer based in London, UK. They use their writing to explore facets of their experience as a black woman, with a speculative bent. They have work published in the Decolonial Passage, Torch Literary Arts and Midnight & Indigo and are nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2025. You can find their links here.
Review: The Ghost of Leslie-Fucking-Feinberg + What Could've Been
It’s a dewy, drizzling night in Williamsburg, burdened by similar winds that brought Dorothy and Toto to Oz. Inside The Vino Theater, there’s a sea of queer and trans twentysomethings eagerly awaiting What Could’ve Been, written by Lu Davis, and The Ghost of Leslie-Fucking-Feinberg, written by Kaila Tacazon.
by Cheyenne Edwards
Cheyenne Edwards (they/she) is a screenwriter, essayist, & narrative film storyteller. Cheyenne’s artistry builds on the undisputed principle that representation matters, but dares to take things a step further by putting their Black and queer—often lesbian-identified—characters in audacious situations bolstered by the sharp, ironic humor of their generation.
safe keeping
please, I mutter back,
I am not in the business of building ghosts,
and I think myself very little but
a woman blurred by the shadows who care for me:
by Charlinda A. Banks
Charlinda Banks (or Chachi!) graduated from Brown University in 2024 with a double concentration in Literary Arts and International Affairs. In college, she completed a creative writing thesis which centered queerness, ghosts, and a road trip. She is often thinking about family, language, spirituality, and conceptions of ‘truth.’ She also likes vampire stories. “safe keeping” is derived from a completely different idea of community ghost writing. She then thought of the ghosts that exist within herself and which blur her into existence.
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Against the Tide
Against the Tide: Community Care in the Collapse of Empire is a testament to the power of grassroots organizing and resistance. Featuring essays and interviews with U.S.-based activists in the wake of the 2024 election, Against the Tide is a freedom cry and a call to action. Our editors went to The Free Black Women’s Library in Bed-Stuy, to enviornmental land trusts in New Mexico, to raves led by Black queer DJs, to non-profits in Texas, and beyond to connect with community leaders building a liberated future. Our 23rd issue reveals that oppression is not the end of our stories. With imagination and action, it is only the beginning.
Beyond the Margin
This issue was created by an editorial team of Black lesbians with the intention to explore the expansiveness of our identities and pay homage to our ancestors. In a culture that is obsessed with placing Black people into limiting roles and stereotypes, Black queerness—more specifically Black lesbianism—is vastly underrepresented and misunderstood. It is our right to tell our stories, so if mainstream media and literature won’t represent us with respect and candor, we will create the space to do so ourselves. The issue you hold in your hands is one such space.
The Liberation Zine
As a grassroots literary and arts magazine by and for black creatives, this issue is a part of our effort to express solidarity with our comrades who are fighting to tell stories of our culture, suffering, and resistance. The magazine you are holding features work from black palestinian, sudanese, and american writers. these stories are as vulnerable as they are striking—revealing a rich black diaspora who has sustained hope, despite unspeakable suffering, for a liberated and just world.
The Village
The stories across the Black diaspora
The Self
The stories from within
The Lovers
The stories for those we love
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