When language broke open : an anthology of queer and trans Black writers of Latin American descent / edited by Alan Pelaez Lopez.

Anthology of queer and trans Black writers of Latin American descent

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2023.

xxiii, 294 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Another Diaspora Poem / Irene Vázquez -- When One Door Closes, Another Door Flows / Ehqs / Izar -- Home / Sa Smythe y volver volver / Sa Smythe -- Held together by an ocean breeze / Little Wren -- Red Clay / Little Wren -- Haiku for Great-Grandma Coolie / Tirzah Sheppard -- To Grandma 'Nita / Tirzah Sheppard -- Rainbow Rosary / Tirzah Sheppard -- Hoo Doo Interests / Allison Whittenburg -- Watching Jordan's Fall / Allison Whittenberg -- From Under Crack Rock: Surviving the Reagan Years / Louie Ortiz-Fonseca -- The Things Miss Tina Taught Mee / Louie Ortiz-Fonseca -- Maria's Song, 1999 / Armando Alleyne -- Maria's Song (#2) / Armando Alleyne -- Context: The Maria's Song Series / Armando Alleyne -- Polluted Imprints in a Neurodivergent Mind / Julia Feliz -- Ocean Home / Zoë Gamell Brown -- Of Joy (A Bricolage) / Randy James -- Ancestor in Barbados / Randy James -- On This Little Island / Randy James -- Ode to Abuela / Raquelle Mayoral -- [Untitled] / Franchesca Araújo -- The plant speaks for the girl buried under it / O lixo fala pela menina enterrada debaixo dele (with glimmers of Clifton) / Franchesca Araújo -- Remembering / Reva Santo -- Where Is Home? / Ivanova Veras de Jesús -- my gram's machete / JR Mahung -- letter to simone (on the subject of the king) / JR Mahung -- letter to sinone (on cutting grass) / JR Mahung -- reflections on watching missy elliott's "lose control" video / JR Mahung -- portrait of my grandmother in 90s hip hop videos / JR Mahung -- ¿Y Vos Quién Sos? / Clara Olivo -- Clarita Escucha Su Voz / Clare Olivo -- [7 December 2020] untitled / Des Jackson -- Un Cuento del Regreso / Jehoiada Zechariah Calvin -- "Always and Forever," Love Alex / Charles Rice-González -- How to Draw a Memoir / Breena Nuñez -- Escaped Parrots Are Doing Lovely / Jessica Lanay -- Proximity, Intimacy, Togetherness / Dora Santana -- Love Thy Neighbor / SR. Álida -- Collaborative Poems / Janice Heather Hector and Felene M. Cayetano -- Free / Raquelle Mayoral -- The Uncertainty of Feelings for Girls / Raquelle Mayoral -- Hurricane Marlene / Lorraine Avila -- We Never Did This to Be Beautiful / Ariana Brown -- For the Black in Kids in My 8th-Grade Spanish Class / Ariana Brown -- Lido's Day -- Yamilette Vizcaíno Rivera -- Manicured Things -- / Sasha Mahalia Hawkins -- I'd Always Promised I'd Never Do Drag -- Darrel Alejandro Holnes -- La Negrita / Malika Aisha -- Softness will find you / Malika Aisha -- a letter to my body (the first affirmation is an apology) / Malika Aisha -- 24 de diciembre / Ivanova Veras de Jesús -- i think about death all the time (tdor - 20 de nov) / Sora Ferri -- pride / Sora Ferri -- baby me / Sora Ferri -- Home Sweet Homeless / Josslyn Glenn -- With Love, from Our Corner of the Night / Irene Vázquez -- Dispatches from a Country Without Name / Irene Vázquez -- About You / Jessica Lanay -- Run for High Ground / Jessica Lanay -- 7 Mile Bridge / Jessica Lanay -- Come Down: Dream / Jessica Lanay -- Sugar / Edgie Amisial -- Lulled in the Moment / Jennifer Castillo -- Sapphic Ode to Alex Reynolds / Jennifer Castillo -- Pelo Malo / Pelo Bueno / Jennifer Castillo -- Justice Served / Zoë Gamell Brown -- tía por qué me dicen q tú no existes -- after songs of water saints / Franchesca Araújo -- Romo oscuro para Santa Bárbara Africana / Franchesca Araújo -- Electra / Andrea Alejandro Freire F. -- Electra / Andrea Alejandro Freire F., Translated by Jessica Lanay -- Carne y Espanto / Andrea Alejandro Freire F. -- Flesh and Fright / Andrea Alejandro Freire F., Translated by Jessica Lanay -- Lx DragOna / Andrea Alejandro Freire F. -- Lx DragOna / Andrea Alejandro Freire F., Translated by Jessica Lanay -- La reina del virus / Andrea Alejandro Freire F. -- Queen of the Virus / Andrea Alejandro Freire F., Translated by Jessica Lanay -- Translator's Note / Jessica Lanay -- [April 2020] you (a short queer love story) / Des Jackson -- I pull these words from my gut and leave them to rot / Little Wren -- Disonancia / Pheonix Ríszing -- Black Love / Phoenix Ríszing -- A Thank You Note / Sasha Lamprea Arevalo -- An Offering / Sa Smythe -- Madrenuestra / Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro -- Madrenuestra / Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Translated by Lawrence Schimel -- existir / Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro -- exist / Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Translated by Lawrence Schimel -- Afrofeministamente / Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro -- Afrofeministly / Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Translated by Lawrence Schimel -- Decálogo de escritura afrofeminista radical / Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro -- Decalogue of Radical Afrofeminist Writing / Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Translated by Lawrence Schimel -- Opening the Dominican Universe / Alejandro Heredia -- A Rewiring of the Senses: Considering Abortion / Qui Dorian Alexander -- All Legs Lead to Naomi Campbell / Darrel Alejandro Holnes -- Inheritance 1 / Jeydelyn Martinez -- Inheritance 3 / Jeydelyn Martinez -- EVOLUTION / Phoenix Ríszing -- Ain't I Latina? / Phoenix Ríszing -- Black girls deserve / Ariana Brown -- There Will Be / Ariana Brown -- We Win! / Ivanova Veras de Jesús -- Hothouse, Or, The Taking Back of the Provision Grounds / Irene Vázquez -- [9 February 2020] i am scared to touch the world / Des Jackson -- [8 October 2020] / Des Jackson -- Castillo San Cristóbal / Jehoiada Zechariah Calvin -- Prophecy / Jehoiada Zechariah Calvin -- When Dreaming of a Future Means Letting Go / Alan Pelaez Lopez -- an invitation to play, a choreographer's offering / Ehqs / Izar -- Coda / Alan Pelaez Lopez.