AFRO-BUBBLEGUM Maurice Moore To read more from Obsidian, please link to our Subscribe page Recent Posts Issue 48.2: Afro-Bubblegum Issue 48.2: Everyone Knows Utopia Means No Place Issue 48.2: non- Issue 48.2: Black W*man Issue 48.2: Introduction Categories art Blog...
EVERYONE KNOWS UTOPIA MEANS NO PLACE Georgie Fehringer I was a very poor impersonator of myself in public. —Pamela Lu, Pamela: A Novel G wants to write about the leaking. G wants to write about how the boredom dribbles down from orifices, dripping off eyelashes,...
NON- Michal MJ Jones (prefix): expressing negation or absence; non-birth, non-gestational, non-biological. my death will leave no more evidence than my birth & my only origin story is absence. i fell from the sky’s nothing into an empty pool / hollow...
BLACK W*MAN Briana Grogan to abide by the rules of the Black woman is to survive. after 7 years strung to mechanics, my mother dared to disconnect and survive. for 17 days longer. despite the countdown, I’d imagine she remembered what it felt like to mount her...
INTRODUCTION Blacktop: On the GenderQueer/GenreQueer Playground Ronaldo V. Wilson, Guest Editor “ . . . Blacktop. Blackness. Kickball. Tetherball. Double-Dutch. Tag. You’re It. We invite LGBQTIA+++++ of the African Diaspora to come play with us . . . ” When I...
CRAVINGS Jennifer Bartell When you grow up with a daddy who lovedchicken necks when chicken feets givethe luxury of eating and cleaning your teethat the same time when all is right in lifeand you reward yourself with a clutch of wingswhen your mama makes smothered...
