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Reading Q***r promotes q***r literary culture in South Florida. This fluidity better reflects the diversity and complexity of identity.
Vision: Reading q***r will provide the community with a platform for self exploration and self-expression and will demonstrate how creative writing can be used as a medium to improve, empower, and enrich the creative lives of the community. Changing deeply-rooted misconceptions of q***rness inside and outside of our community necessitates a new language. Reading Q***r will foster a dialogue between gay, le***an, bisexual, trans* and intersexed writers and the larger community. Individual voices will come together to connect, create and communicate what it means to be q***r and to dispel myths that disempower and dehumanize. Our ongoing mission is to ensure that our community thrives and that our stories continue to be told. With dedication and compassion, Reading Q***r aims to promote Miami as a vibrant and diverse center for q***r literature. Why we chose our name Reading “Q***r”? : In Diane Raymond’s essay “Popular Culture and Q***r Representation”, she defines “q***r” as a universalizing term that embraces more fluid categories. Raymond writes: ”Q***r is a category in flux. Once a term of homophobic abuse, recently the term has been reappropriated as a marker for some gay, le***an, bisexual, transgender (glbt), and other marginalized sexual identities….The term is itself open-ended, and its advocates argue that its fluidity is to be embraced rather than ‘fixed’….’q***r’ is politically radical, rejects binary categories (homosexual/heterosexual), embraces more fluid categories, and tends to be ‘universalizing’ rather than ‘minoritizing’….”
03/02/2024
“Sadie Hernandez, communications manager for Transgender Education Network of Texas, stated that while Paxton was targeting transgender people now, the methods overlap with other fights in the state for reproductive healthcare and bodily autonomy. “The way they are coming after trans folks has been seen in the way they are going after abortion rights. We have an idea of what is in their playbook.”
'Retaliation': Texas AG Paxton demands PFLAG provide names, addresses of trans members — Advocate A legal filing by PFLAG National revealed that Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas was seeking identification of transgender members.
01/14/2024
An established press with a respect for poets — we honor your work by making beautiful books and collaborating with you in editing and design. Here's the link: https://anhingapress.submittable.com/submit
09/06/2023
Our fall open reading period begins September 15! ✨
Submissions are invited through Submittable, our online submissions manager. We do not have the staff capacity to read or respond to unsolicited manuscripts that are submitted by email or mail. However, if you need accommodations to make the submission process accessible to you, please contact [email protected] with your request. Please write “Submission Accessibility Request” in the subject line.
For further information, please visit our Submission guideline page: https://bit.ly/2ze2gzz
06/04/2023
Sign up today for Flash: Beyond the Genre Binary, a creative writing workshop with Jubi Arriola-Headley.
Flash: Beyond the Genre Binary Flash is a generative creative writing workshop with Jubi Arriola-Headley.
02/20/2023
I'm really looking forward to this writing workshop with Julie Marie Wade. Sign up today and reserve your space.
The Inherent Q***rness of the Lyric Essay with Julie Marie Wade Explore lyric essays as a genre of wish and risk.
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Miami, FL
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