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Neither Fish Nor Fowl
The origins of “pato” in Queer Boricua lexicon.
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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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Encountering Pseudo-Territory
Yiddish anarchism meets augmented reality, Lettriste painting and Parisian squats, molten tanks and iron flags, and the praxis of hospitality.
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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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In Bulgaria the Enemy is “Gender”
When a translator borrowed the term “gender” from English, the Bulgarian conservative right found a new word to weaponize.
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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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Lesben, Schwuchtel, and Creative Punctuation: Queer(ing) the German Language
The emergence of queer terminology in a language as gendered as German calls for creative appropriation and disruptive recombination.
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Unmute: Scattered Thoughts on Zoom Fatigue
Our definitions of “Zoom fatigue” are as varied as our symptoms—from anxiety to loathing to fits of laughter and primal screams. Neta Alexander offers differing perspectives on this new fatigue that has forced its way into our lexicon.
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For What It’s Worth
Wandering the streets of San Francisco, browsing the city’s bookshelves, a writer reflects on twenty years of literary and artistic influence, navigating an increasingly unfamiliar landscape in New York City.
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Queer Transgression & Belonging: Lesbian / Lesbijką / Lezbianke / Mishkev-zokhernitse
Finally becoming comfortable saying “I am a lesbian” in Poland, Zohar Weiman-Kelman unpacks layers of meaning in the Yiddish words for queer identity.
