Ted 7/2/21 Ted 7/2/21

Woman

Woman,

You spend years wrapping me up

in your selves

Wind me tight

Blueing breasts and juiced out abdomen..

Neoma Simmons 6/28/21 Neoma Simmons 6/28/21

Day In The Life - Queer Caribby

"Yuh know muh lub home but sometime...

amber williams-king 12/24/20 amber williams-king 12/24/20

Like the Sea Rushing In

I mouth at her glittering neck, her skin hot and wet like a melting sun. Slowly, I find her parted lips and we stumble into another kiss. My heart stutters from the fullness of it.

Willum 10/30/20 Willum 10/30/20

In Chrysalis

There is a misconception that the love of a man is hard, reminiscent of a stone statue. They are harden, unmoving, craggy and as such brittle.

Manni Festa 10/30/20 Manni Festa 10/30/20

I Am Sitting

I’m tired of sitting. Now, I am standing up.

moon 10/30/20 moon 10/30/20

gaze

don’t you dare break her gaze

don’t your dare break the chain

the stories must live on

moon 10/30/20 moon 10/30/20

we don’t exist

it has come to my attention that we don't exist

we the colourful the fluid the bold the open the rule benders…

Ide Thompson 10/30/20 Ide Thompson 10/30/20

A Triptych on My Queerness

Even after all these years

I still scared to say these words in public,

still caustous

to let Gay spilt my teeth open

moon 10/30/20 moon 10/30/20

being straight

being straight was like living in a closet

I didn’t know was a closet

some wealthy person’s closet

with enough room and variety

to convince me I wasn’t trapped

Akilah 10/30/20 Akilah 10/30/20

Un/furled

I moved to Canada for university convinced that in that free space (a space, I didn’t then realise, where what freedoms it could acclaim were built on Indigenous genocide, continuous exploitation and theft) I could be more myself.

David Simon 10/30/20 David Simon 10/30/20

Open Secrets

Since I last saw you I’ve been thinking. Thinking about you. Thinking about us, about home, about those kids whose journey mirrors yours and mine, A journey walking with fear.

Ade' Arthur 10/30/20 Ade' Arthur 10/30/20

Praying for her Nádleehi

She wanted the baby to be okay. Slowly the vision started and she knew, she knew the way that mothers’ know. She knew that this was her child, even though the person in her vision was not a baby, not even a small child, she knew that this was her baby and yes her child was beautiful.

Aidan R. 10/30/20 Aidan R. 10/30/20

Intersections of fate

Reyna was 21, but looked and to some extent felt 16; like she hadn’t matured a day beyond the age she discovered the “oddness,” she sensed about herself, had a name.

Jarrod Williams 10/30/20 Jarrod Williams 10/30/20

I Was Eight Years Old

I couldn’t tell her what I had suffered. It was a guarded secret for me.

Justin Credible 10/30/20 Justin Credible 10/30/20

Spice up Your life

Growing up on this Caribbean island meant that society was not accepting of same sex unions. I felt like I had to be “straight” in order to fit in or to be accepted.