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Anticipatory Archives & Ancestral Assemblages: LGBTQ Editors/Publishers of Color

Virtual
Friday, March 25, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:10 pm

 

Queer/trans people of color editing/publishing build stronger activist, artistic, and scholarly communities. Editors/publishers will discuss production and maintenance of Indigenous, people of color, womanist, queer/trans, and multicultural journals and solo/coauthored books, anthologies, and presses. Collaboratively producing diverse texts, panelists will discuss navigating economic, logistical, and institutional challenges while centering issues of culture, politics, aesthetics, and diversity.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP22LGBTQPOCEditorsPublishersOutline.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, an NEA and Tulsa Artist Fellow, is the author of Archipiélagos, Antes y después del Bronx: Lenapehoking, and South Bronx Breathing Lessons. He edited Yellow Medicine Review's global queer Indigenous issue and coedited Movement Research Performance Journal's Native issue.

Leiana San Agustin Naholowaʻa (CHamoru/Hawaiian) coedited Kinalamten gi Pasifiku: Insights from Oceania and Storyboard: A Journal of Pacific Imagery. A University of Hawai'i English PhD student, she directed Mothering Guåhan and is coediting Queernesia: An Anthology of Indigenous Queer Oceania.

Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of The Map of Salt and Stars and Stonewall and Lambda Literary award-winning The Thirty Names of Night. He edited Mizna's Queer + Trans Voices issue. His work appears in Salon, the Paris Review, and Kink. He is a Radius of Arab American Writers member and Periplus mentor.

Chino Scott-Chung is a trans Chinese/Mexican historical/creative non/fiction writer. Founder and fiction editor of The Asian and Pacific Islander Transmasculine Anthology, he is part of the Latinx Writers Caucus leadership team. His work appears in GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary.

D. Keali'i MacKenzie is a queer Kanaka Maoli writer and Pacific Tongues poet-facilitator. He is the author of From Hunger to Prayer and coeditor of Bamboo Ridge's speculative issue. His work is in 'Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal, Foglifter, and Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English.

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Kansas City, Missouri

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