By Lola Fasina – People prefer binaries: good girl, bad girl, obedient, deviant. I will not fit. I kneel when I choose. I command when I choose...

By Emanuel Xavier – They circled. They screamed. They struck. And she screamed too—until she didn’t...

By Namkeen Peshawri – When mobs shout outside our office, when phone calls whisper threats, when I must reduce my visibility to survive, art becomes shelter...

By Qsherhana and Sir Lavender Scare – The same terrors that sent me spiraling in past years can feel like calls to action when he and I face them together in the best and most genuine way I know how...

By Zach Oren – 'People do make a choice to be discriminatory. It's not like discrimination is an innate nature. Even cats and dogs are friends...'

By Selina Shaw – To be Queer is to be an alchemist. We are in the seams of the surface world, unpicking it and playing with its arcane truths, making and discovering...

By Ashley Olive – He was obsessed. Not with me — but with the part of my body that caused me the deepest dysphoria — my princess parts. It wasn’t about me specifically. It was about any chick with a dick...

By Erica Millner – Red lips occur as a charged symbol of femininity, sexuality, and allure, while also suggesting artifice, masking, and the pressure to conform to rigid gender roles...

By Sam Holden – If I felt chosen / it was the way a mug feels chosen / by a grasping hand. / Only later did I understand: / you never let go of anything / to hold me...

By The Visceral Glitch – Fearful yet freed, I conjured shapes and colors, whatever felt right. Untethered to the real world, I played with art as never before...

By Dietz – I want you to know, whoever is reading this... you don’t have to be perfect, you don’t have to know all the answers, you can just exist and figure it out as you go...

By Connor Kristiansen – I embraced the uncertainty that had once paralyzed me. I embraced the fear, knowing it was a fleeting illusion...