BEHIND SHUT EYES QTBIPOC DREAM ANTHOLOGY IS A QUEER & TRANS BLACK, INDIGENOUS, COMMUNITY OF COLOR DREAM ANTHOLOGY MADE UP OF POEMS, SHORT STORIES, REFLECTION PIECES, & JOURNAL ENTRIES.
THIS ANTHOLOGY CONSISTS OF 32 WRITERS/POETS AND 1 COMMUNAL POEM ENTITLED “A CLOSING PRAYER”. 33 WRITTEN WORKS TOTAL
EDITOR’S NOTE FROM COYOTE PARK: I AM HONORED TO HOLD THESE COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE CULTURAL & PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE. WE AS TRANS, NONBINARY, 2SPIRIT, AND QUEER BLACK, BROWN, INDIGENOUS, PEOPLE OF COLOR HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A BRIDGE BETWEEN WORLDS. TO THOSE OF US THAT HAVE HAD OUR WORLDS DENIED OF US, TREATED AS INSIGNIFICANT, OR MISCONSTRUED: YOUR DREAM OF FUTURE, PAST, AND PRESENT IS ALIVE AND BEAUTIFUL.I LOVE YOU. NOOLUEMEK’ 사랑해요 I WILL ECHO THAT LOVE IN EVERY LANGUAGE MY ANCESTORS ONCE SPOKE, & HOPE IT TRANSLATES INTO EVERY LANGUAGE OF YOURS.
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BEHIND SHUT EYES Table of Contents
Kay Thomas - Nipawaakan
Jasmine Reiko - The Problem Of Waking
Devin DeSeta-Howard - The Dream of Community
Mithsuca Berry - When Did I Lose My Way
Hercules GK - Mapping the Healing / Traumascapes
Ryookyung Kim - I Dream of Persimmons
Ali B. - Despair is as Much a Dream as Joy
Mallika Singh - Confluence
Jam Bridgett - The Fish, the Dream, and The Ocean
Grey Rain - Centered in the Uncertain // Freewrite 0620
Jaz Whitford - Do You Dream
Marisa Fulper Estrada - Gender Mutt // Empty Waiting Room
Xenon - Testosterone Honey
Blanca Enriquez Acuña - Shroom Landscape: what the Lake and Colors taught me
Candex Seokyi Louie - Is it? // Butterflies
Catie Chan - How to Say Goodbye to a Ghost
Victor Jaiprakash - In Parallel
Tyra Payer - The Watoosie
Siham Karimi - Chosen Family, Making Home, The Sun and the Sea
Xochitl Duran - Suerte y Love
Xya Rachel - To White
Kevin Alarcon - Apocalypse Dream
Iida Valmé - Journal Excerpt
Jess T Fang // JUNiPER - My Flesh Has Grown to Ghost 癲狂
Dez Jones - Representation is a Form of Abstraction, Not the Other Way Around
Cree Renee - round eight.
Frank/ie Consent- Select from Dream Journal
Brinda Iyer - In My Dreams Your Laughter is the Softest Touch
Gabrielle Guo - Loose-Notes
Sentient Pansy - 3 Nightmares
S.O. Nault - Acts of Dreaming
Cortez - Mother Dreams
BEHIND SHUT EYES
QTBIPOC DREAM ANTHOLOGY
Edited by Coyote Park
Designed by Rin Kim
Illustrated by Mac Do
Published by GenderFail
114 pages
First Edition of 400
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