Shade Literary Arts

When you told me that someone else helped you bind during our time apart, I was jealous. Though you never said you wanted to do that when...

Beautiful questions for the war poem to host: Who among us could weave one ghost into another? Where find water hosted beyond the tulip’s...

Run around the neighborhood with the white kids, playing like you're all the same. Jump on the trampoline with the boys, before they...

I say, trick or treating’s complicated and you ask me to shut up upstairs, my mother polishes Faberge eggs whispers to them, calls...

We've all heard the phrase before: "now more than ever." But why now? What does that mean? I don't know about you, but as a queer person...

they never tell us how to love a black man just pat our backs when we weep for them WILLIE L. KINARD III is a designer, art director and...

RAYCHELLE DUAZO is a queer femme Filipina-American visual artist from the Pacific Northwest. Artistically, her specialities include...

Let go, habiby. A storm is but wind and water, and you are made of both. So why not float if only for a life time? Can you not see ...

OVERTURE FOR... We went . coming for façade caused fish-hook in flesh got jaw caught up on muscle got new language called it...

Granny made cane wine for her family, my mother says. We’ve ordered glasses of Riesling, the first I’ve seen her drink in public since...