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Puro
The latest video from Travesti Biológica affirms the need for self-respect, self-care, and empowerment.
Free Expression
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“Here is my story”: an account of writing, responding, and revising
How can a piece of writing build trust across continents, cultures, and contexts? We find out in these parallel reflections between two writers.
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Everything U Want
Track 8 from Travesti Biológica features vocals from multidisciplinary artist Ivy Monteiro.
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enTR4V4
With enTR4V4, Mavi takes us on a voyeuristic tour of various bedrooms to an insistent four-on-the-(boudoir)-floor rhythm.
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Treasure in My Mouth
With spacey synths and a disco dance beat, “Treasure in My Mouth” is an intimate portrait of self-care and resistance.
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Names
The fifth video from the album Travesti Biológica celebrates the cultural turn when we claim terms that once were used to oppress.
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Gale
Like the act of pruning a plant, we hurt to trigger growth. In the scarring processes we heal our wounds of memory, of thought, of soul.
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The Rise and Future of a Queer Polity of Literature in Six Scenes (part two)
In part two, the purposes and ambitions of queer literature change in the ‘80s with the rise of AIDS and a punishing, homophobic backlash. These cultural conditions birthed a new political awareness—one that linked queer communities to other historically marginalized and oppressed people.
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Navel Gazing
An insight into America’s “culture wars” using the example of Dave Chappelle to highlight the extant and emerging fault lines of artistic freedom of expression and censorship.
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What if this is literature?
As an introduction to the work of Parwana Amiri, we’re republishing her story, “The Olive Tree and the Old Woman,” and making it available for sale from Publication Studio Guelph.
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Finding a Polity in Prison Writing
We want to find living examples of a functioning Polity of Literature. A friend suggests, why not look at prison writing?
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Mine for Yours: DC’s Blog is a Lit Community
When an anarchist hosts a blog it becomes a polity. Dennis Cooper’s features literature (and GIF novels).
