
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)

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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
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