The late Mark Aguhar wrote a legendary poem called “Litanies to My Heavenly Brown Body.” There are many lines that strike with boldness. My favorite verse is “BLESSED ARE THE SEX WORKERS.” Rarely are we considered blessed. Who controls who receives the blessings in the world? I’m grateful for this beloved artist for writing this…
KB AKA Tuffy
KB is co-founder and Artistic Director of Queer Rebel Productions (est 2008). Now 11 years strong we are a Bay Area based intergenerational arts organization focused on QTPoC filmmakers, performance & literary artists. KB performs in XD LEGIT, an Oakland based Sci-Fi Soul musical and experimental media act. QRP Mission: Showcasing LGBTQ+ artists of color….
Sam Dylan Finch
A big part of my transition has been confronting this sense that I was “too much” for this world. Too loud. Too emotional. Too queer. Too sensitive. Too neurotic. I have carried this kind of heaviness my whole life, and this compulsion to make myself as small as possible has led me to some dark…
Quiver Watts
I chose the name Quiver because it is a motion caused by strong emotion as well as a holder for arrows, and I am both tenderly emotional and fierce. Most of my days are spent putting together the Street Sheet, a newspaper written and distributed mainly by homeless/low-income people in San Francisco. By night I…
Jesse
Being homeless in San Francisco is weird as hell. There are a lot of resources available, but they’re just completely inaccessible to most people who need them. Everything feels stagnant. Even if someone tries to engage with some of these resources, like homeless youth organisations, it’s impossible for them to get anywhere because of obstacles…
Athena
Growing up I considered myself male-adjacent (what might now be called a demi boy). Eventually I gave that up for genderqueer, which is something I still identify with. I have complimented that with a few other off-the-rack gender descriptions: non-binary, gender fluid, and trans woman. However, I feel like a bespoke gender is the best…