STAFF

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

NOEMI MARTINEZ

Noemi Martinez  is a queer crip poet-curanderx, writer, historian and cultural worker with Mexican and Caribbean roots. A first gen Brujx in these lands, Noemi was born in Chicago and now the Rio Grande Valley is home, with home being that unsettling barometer of belonging or not, of having a home country or not, of being rooted in other lands yet not. Some of her poems, essays, artwork and words can be found in Bitch, Tayo, Alyss, The Deaf Poets Society, Jellyfish Review,  Revolutionary Motherhood: Love on the Frontlines, Pimento: Journal of All Things Disability, Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements, The Geeky Gimp and Xicana Chronicles. You can find her online at hermanaresist.com and on twitter telling secrets and tweeting lyrics at hermanaresist. 

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

ALANA KING

Alana King is a first year PhD candidate in Humanities. Her research interests include American Literature and History, the literature and history of marginalized and non-mainstream populations, film studies, and genocide studies. You can find her online at alanacking.com and on Twitter @alanacking

 

READERS AND VOLUNTEERS

Thanks to the readers and volunteers who answered late night questions about content, intent and images for this issue. Thanks to  River and Winter who gave their artistic and graphic opinion on choice, color and design on the backgrounds and images for this issue. Thanks to Emmy Pérez for her encouragement and words.