Afrofuturism

As the vantage point shifts, the viewer is deconstructed.

The speaker takes aim at pop psychology, the notion of inferiority complexes, and Chicago’s heinous “Ugly Laws.”

The memories threaten to cling and capture, but the rolling stone dodges all confinements.

Domesticating the Queer Cat.

A scholarly and thoughtful epistolary celebrating black female identity and inventorying the rousing literature it produces.

An inquiry into the enduring power of Shakespeare’s classic opens the castle gates to a battalion of existential musings.

The apocalypse has never been delivered with such harrowing eloquence.

Critters. Commitments. Whatever the pest, it gets under the skin.

Pick a fight, vent a gripe; never let an incisive judgment get away.

Conditions are placed on relationships and ideals of acceptable appearance are carelessly imposed.

Autoeroticism silences a stirred and sensitive soul.

A sacred folly. A farcical sacrifice.

Yearning and wrenching, the heart twitches and beats harder.

The ardent toil of a tiny colony fills a lumberjack with fascination, admiration, and self-reflection.

The power of touch sends a young queer man aquiver with hot thoughts and boundless lust.

A profile in the shape of a case study probes the decaying and methodical mind of a misogynistic sociopath in a story written by a seasoned clinical psychologist.

Astronomy, David Bowie, Italian ancestry, the 2016 Election, and the bond between a man and his deceased father blend and surge.

A bridge between bigotries is built and the memoirist finds a life-altering clarity in his prejudice.

A Delicate Balance: Exploratory sex brings about an ascension in a lesbian relationship.

Unresolved, uncertain, and untrusting, the chasm grows.

War makes men monsters and monsters men.

Will, when coupled with grit, goes a long way.

This installment of Mark Elzey’s autobiography brings the reader through an interminable and harrowing string of childhood corrective surgeries for the sake of “normalization”.

Humiliation and desperation/ community and aspiration.

In a bitter voice, the undergirding of self worth is dismantled as a possible, unnerving root of feminism is excavated.

Corporeal expanse, with wrangled nerves and a quieted pulse.

A relationship shakes amid combat against corporate greed.

Embers of home billow and blow as history burns hard.

Indignities and exploitation are righted with sharp words and a blunt defense.

Barbarism is given free rein in a gun-happy nation.