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
In 2022, I circled back to some of the participants of this series to ask them if they would like to update their profiles, or expand a little more on how the events of the last few years have affected them. Here is KB’s response – How was your experience participating in this project? This…
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…