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Knitting as Queer Metaphor: A Shawl Pattern by Lola Arellano-Fryer

Lola Arellano-Fryer

rainbow yarn / photo by inger maaike

SIZE: One size, made to drape over the shoulders of any body. MATERIALS: First, find a brightly colored yarn, as close to an actual rainbow as you can find. Then, find a contrasting yarn that’s as … [Read more...]

Two poems by Jason B. Crawford

Jason B. Crawford

photo credit: Meriç Dağlı

Beasts Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything ~ Genesis 9 Verse 3 What was here once a body … [Read more...]

Two poems by Jennifer Cie

Jennifer Cie

credit: em/p. blenkhorn

slip tuned to miss damita jo jackson remember 1.   Green men with shaved faces.       1.1. Brown clocks with flashy … [Read more...]

Two poems by Robin Gow

Robin Gow

behind the glass / credit: em

Ballet With No Dancers Each girl I’ve loved has been hallway—              a dancing … [Read more...]

Tremolo, a poem by G. Metelli

G. Metelli

credit: steve johnson

Tremolo The summer I died the first time, locusts carved the corn to its cusp. That fall, I whispered the cornfields, the coffins, the blackbirds, hollowed my mouth around the words. I … [Read more...]

Melania Geymonat: How the London Bus Attack Shaped Her Views on Homophobia and Sexism

Cristina Tomàs White and Melania Geymonat

Melania Geymonat

You might not recognize her right away, but you’ve likely seen her face before. Remember the “London Bus Attack” and that picture of two women covered in blood, often under clickbaity headlines, that … [Read more...]

Julia Justo: Crossroads

Julia Justo

Legendary Roommate (detail) - Julia Justo

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Maureen Catbagan: Queer Film Stills

Maureen Catbagan

Lilly Galaxy -Pozsi and Gage - Film Still by Grace Catbagan

These images are stills from videos that I have made that explore the varied complexities and nuances of queer desire, fantasy, and longing. … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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