Inside “On Queer Family”
“This anthology is an unfinished map of queer possibility.”
On Queer Family • Curated by Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal
Community Anthologies: 2024
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On Queer Family • Curated by Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal
“What are your impossible queer dreams? What does kinship look like beyond the ties enshrined by the State?”
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ReadTip of the Tongue, Teeth and the Lips
“Our plan had been to wait until the next time we visited to tell them we would be moving in together, but I also had my own discreet plan.” -
Readfiebre de kilig
“to our descendants, this relic is for you too. to our qt ancestors, thank you for seeding me in these fertile ruins.” -
ReadOn Fiestaware, Ashes, and Dancing Again
“I can’t separate my experience of being raised by gay people from my experience of being raised by people who watched a lot of their friends die young.” -
ReadA Tribute to Target Pride Merch
“No hables con her sobre this subject / Porque part of me is scared to complicate / Our memories compartimo” -
Readbefore you’re gone & other poems
“my flowers have obituaries with names that don’t match them and goodbyes that are wrong.” -
Readin order to separate or purify & other poems
“but too you ran scissors / up and down the powerlines / so the calls never made sense /until the static of ashes proved / my mother right” -
ReadIntimate Encounters 一期一会
“Aren’t we like this seedling? Constantly budding through a land that has been broken into pieces.”
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“What are the different gestures an ending can hold? What are its passages, its fugitivities?”