Vol 48, No 2 (2022)

Obsidian's Genderqueer/Genrequeer Playground

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OBSIDIAN'S GENDERQUEER/GENREQUEER PLAYGROUND

Blacktop: On the GenderQueer/GenreQueer Playground
Ronaldo V. Wilson

POETRY

Planet X: Sun Ra Edition
Anastacia-Reneé _
Won’t He Do It
Anastacia-Reneé _
Creation Story
Anastacia-Reneé _
the only poem
Samiya Bashir
greenwhich mean seems
Samiya Bashir
Where mosquitos go during the day
Samiya Bashir
plane after plane after plan buzzes
Samiya Bashir
Yellow Mama’s Self-Portrait as a Rocking Chair
Ebony E. Chinn
Wild Tongue
Ebony E. Chinn
The Bureaucracy of Death
Ebony E. Chinn
A Letter Not Written in Blood
Ebony E. Chinn
Origins
Ebony E. Chinn
JU/NKonnu Costum (Oko)NKo Je (Printing a Rag(Wo)man Tempest on a Pierrot Plate)
Sherese Francis
bluebells
Clifton Gachagua
cousins
Clifton Gachagua
morning at the marina
Clifton Gachagua
widowbird
Clifton Gachagua
Grace Period: (a serial antipoem)
Kenning JP García
Grace Period: (a serial antipoem)
Kenning JP García
ménage à trois
Robert Anthony Gibbons
in this bright abyss
Robert Anthony Gibbons
gender
Robert Anthony Gibbons
the incarceration of Jason Collins
Robert Anthony Gibbons
I love barrettes
Alana Gracey
I fall in love with summer.
Alana Gracey
You cannot sit.
Alana Gracey
Black w*man
Briana Grogan
asterisk
Briana Grogan
and sometimes
Briana Grogan
CP Time
Briana Grogan
Communicado, two sips
fahima ife
Sleeping Angel
Yeva Johnson
At the Top of the Hour
Yeva Johnson
Pretty Yes
Yeva Johnson
A Dog's BFF
Yeva Johnson
non-
Michal MJ Jones
-believer
Michal MJ Jones
-extant
Michal MJ Jones
-qualifier
Michal MJ Jones
-recourse
Michal MJ Jones
Catfish
Willie Lee Kinard III
Cheddar
Willie Lee Kinard III
Black Box Fairy Tale
jaamil olawale kosoko
Moonmother
jaamil olawale kosoko
How to “make” a hu(man)
Jason Masino
Summoning the Revolution (at 45 rpm)
Elizabeth Owuor
another queer poem with doors: a burning haibun
M. Avery Robinson
Demetrius “Mighty Mouse” Johnson Turns a Suplex into a Flying Armbar
M. Avery Robinson
after the playground
R.B. Simon
Aubade for a New World
R.B. Simon
I and U and I
R.B. Simon
On My Honeymoon in August, Sturgeon Bay, Door County, WI
R.B. Simon
Starting with We
R.B. Simon
Whore/Genius
Bakar Wilson
I Go Around Collecting Men
Bakar Wilson
Heartbreaker
Bakar Wilson
Mother
Bakar Wilson

FICTION

Everyone Knows Utopia Means No Place
Georgie Fehringer
E & L
m.a.s. frimpong
Confederate Grindr
Charles Rice-González
Blooms in the Dark
Kedon Willis

DRAMA/PERFORMANCE

Ms. Mahogany Bones & the Case of the Microphone Rapist
M.C. MoHagani Magnetek
How To Conduct a Celebrity Interview: 1994
Timothy David Rey
The Noh of Dorian Corey
Kevin Simmonds

ESSAYS

Inside Every Dark Coat
André Le Mont Wilson
Knots
André Le Mont Wilson
Brushy Creek
André Le Mont Wilson

VISUAL ART

So You Are Leaving Us
Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng
Exploration
Kengel Maysonet Baegra
Hungry Hungry Heauxs
Kengel Maysonet Baerga
Fishr
Kengel Maysonet Baerga
Cream in Their Jeans
Kengel Maysonet Baerga
inner child playdate
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Jus Be Honest ‘n Say You Hate Fat People! Thicc Thicc Thicc (featuring Sarah Baartman, Biggie, Yes fats & Femmes)
Maurice Moore
When Dat Spirit Jump on Ya (featuring Trans Is Beautiful, Down Syndrome, Amputee, Body Positivity)
Maurice Moore
Let’s Talk About Seggs (featuring Oochie Wally, Trans Is Beautiful, Disabled)
Maurice Moore
Afro-Bubblegum
Maurice Moore

CONTRIBUTORS

Contributors
Contributors Obsidian


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