Pleasure Paths
Rooted in Toni Morrison's, Sula, and Audre Lorde's, Uses of the Erotic, Issue IV is a juicy collection of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, visual art, and photography from southern-rooted Black women, femmes, and nonbinary people exploring the limitless experiences of Black pleasure and embodiment across the South.
The Hereafter
This is a world-building collection of fiction, essays, poetry, photography and art by southern-rooted Black women and femme folk that draws inspiration from the worlds conjured by Octavia E. Butler which seeks to explore the eerily apocalyptic moment we're currently living through. It is an offering to the future, a testament to our presence, our perseverance, and our survival, and a prophetic proclamation that no matter what may lie in the wake of this end, we will indeed be here after.
Correspondence
The Correspondence issue aims to explore and archive the collective memory of 2020 and seeks to engage the art of letter writing as an accessible, intimate, and necessary form of documentation. We wanted to provide space for our community to connect to self, community, and spirit as a way to both respond to and heal from the crisis of racialized, gendered, and economic violence. Drawing on themes from Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, which is made up of approximately 92 letters exchanged between the narrator, her sister, and God, we encouraged our readers/writers to send letters to their family & friends, while also inviting submissions for publication.
The Forged Woman
Our debut features Black women and femmes from Charlotte exploring what it means to be forged as an extension of Alice Walker’s framework for her personal understanding Black women’s history. She used the categories, The Suspended Woman, The Assimilated Woman, and the Emergent Woman, “to describe a series of movements from a woman totally victimized by society and by men to a growing, developing woman whose consciousness allows her to have some control over her life.” The Forged woman is is an experiment in possibility. It poses the questions what comes after the emergence? And, who/what is forged?