Digital Table of Contents

GenderQueer/GenreQueer Playground Special Issue
2022
48.2

Cover Art Front & Back: Robert Osei Anim, Lifestyle (enjoy life) (front) & Butterfly lady (back)

DIGITAL CONTENT

How Do I Stay in Balance II (View 1)
How Do I Stay in Balance II (View 2)
Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng

Diáspora & the Exotic Other, 2021
Kengel Maysonet Baerga

Kayla Kiki
Duriel E. Harris

Communicado, two sips
fahima ife

Race Card
Karma Mayet Johnson

Remembrance Blessing
Elizabeth Miller

Summoning the Revolution
Elizabeth Owuor

INTRODUCTION

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

POETRY

Planet X: Sun Ra Edition
Won’t He Do It
Creation Story
Anastacia-Reneé

the only poem
greenwhich mean seems
Where mosquitos go during the day
plane after plane after plane buzzes
Samiya Bashir

Yellow Mama’s Self-Portrait as a Rocking Chair
Wild Tongue
The Bureaucracy of Death
A Letter Not Written in Blood
Origins
Ebony E. Chinn

JU/NKonnu Costum (Oko)NKo Je (Printing a Rag(Wo)man Tempest on a Pierrot Plate)
Sherese Francis

bluebells
cousins
morning at the marina
widowbird
Clifton Gachagua

Grace Period: (a serial antipoem)
Grace Period: (a serial antipoem)
Kenning JP García

ménage à trois
in this bright abyss
gender
the incarceration of Jason Collins
Robert Anthony Gibbons

I love barrettes
I fall in love with summer.
You cannot sit.
Alana Gracey

Black w*man
asterisk
and sometimes
CP Time
Briana Grogan

Communicado, two sips
fahima ife

Sleeping Angel
At the Top of the Hour
Pretty Yes
A Dog’s BFF
Yeva Johnson

non-
-believer
-extant
-qualifier
-recourse
Michal MJ Jones

Catfish
Cheddar
Willie Lee Kinard III

Black Box Fairy Tale
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
Demetrius “Mighty Mouse” Johnson Turns a Suplex into a Flying Armbar
M. Avery Robinson

after the playground
Aubade for a New World
I and U and I
On My Honeymoon in August, Sturgeon Bay, Door County, WI
Starting with We
R.B. Simon

Whore/Genius
Poet/Manifesto
I Go Around Collecting Men
Heartbreaker
Mother
Bakar Wilson

FICTION/HYBRID

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

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

VISUAL ART

So You Are Leaving Us
Japheth Asiedu-Kwarteng

Exploration
Hungry Hungry Heauxs
Fishr
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)
When Dat Spirit Jump on Ya (featuring Trans Is Beautiful, Down Syndrome,
Amputee, Body Positivity)
Let’s Talk About Seggs (featuring Oochie Wally, Trans Is Beautiful, Disabled)
Afro-Bubblegum
Maurice Moore