Shade Literary Arts

I say, trick or treating’s complicated and you ask me to shut up upstairs, my mother polishes Faberge eggs whispers to them, calls...

We've all heard the phrase before: "now more than ever." But why now? What does that mean? I don't know about you, but as a queer person...

they never tell us how to love a black man just pat our backs when we weep for them WILLIE L. KINARD III is a designer, art director and...

RAYCHELLE DUAZO is a queer femme Filipina-American visual artist from the Pacific Northwest. Artistically, her specialities include...

Let go, habiby. A storm is but wind and water, and you are made of both. So why not float if only for a life time? Can you not see ...

OVERTURE FOR... We went . coming for façade caused fish-hook in flesh got jaw caught up on muscle got new language called it...

Granny made cane wine for her family, my mother says. We’ve ordered glasses of Riesling, the first I’ve seen her drink in public since...

He comes for me. Body swollen with booze, fires for eyes. Each time, I let him have me and let him cry. It’s always his hands that touch...

An epiphany of the gut differs from those of the head or the heart; an epiphany of the gut gurgles up from every vein, tissue, organ,...

1 FALL The more I ask the more is asked of me. My mother asks for nothing except a simple life —work work work— Never why,...