Shade Literary Arts

I. Rainbow sits on the windowsill between grey. Like the man wearing a galabaya in front of another grey building, sipping the same...

JASMINE LEIGH WEBER is a visual artist completing her degree at Columbia University in the Center for Studies in Ethnicity and Race, with...

KELLY KEI BAIRD is a fool-hearted nineteen-year-old living in Berkeley, California. They are an angry barista, freelance illustrator, and...

i. My rubber cackles in the darkest closet of his attic. Until my scrunched diaphragm is weak at his cockeyed shaft. He think he a sharp...

Alexis Pauline Gumbs describes herself as a queer Black troublemaker, Black feminist love evangelist, educator, poet, and time-traveler....

i don’t know if i could love him he’s been a good fuck a perfect gardener of stars a...

so if there be peaches blooming at your breast there be fists raining spring inside you black present continuous tense *** your arms are...

Sunday’s mourning. Papier Mache church walls. My father appears playing the weary organ in my grandparents’ home. His melodious hands...

Harpies, Faggots, Syrens, Black Penelopes by another name, the unsung at the other end of the phone, “beautiful,” beautiful / Kept,...

beat a horse & still the dead {you never knew} know what's in your heart better than you here's blood in your eye {make these bones your...