Queer It Up!

For the past 3 months, co-editor Elena Rose and I have been working on Queer & Trans Artists of Color, Volume Two, featuring:

Mimi Thi Nguyen

Lexi Adsit

Vivek Shraya

Indira Allegra

Tina Takemoto

Mattie Brice

Amir Rabiyah

Juba Kalamka

and 9 other brilliant queer and trans POC artists!

The last fundraiser only raised half of what I was trying to raise, so I am trying to raise the rest now (enough now to pay each of the artists $100 for contributing their time and wisdom to being in this book). Please support queer and trans artists of color by DONATING TODAY!

Anyone who donates $50 or more will have their name on the acknowledgements page of the book. Any money raised above the goal will be put towards having a launch party for the book in Oakland in a wheelchair-accessible location.

A couple great new books by queer people of color came out recently:

Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices by Amir Rabiyah and Helen Klonaris (Helen is white, but most of the content in the book is by POC)

Dirty River: Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Smarasinha

‘Louis’ by Fourtwographs Portrait Studios

getting my pride outfit(s) together. 

reads: gayshame/gayganger/gaygreed/gaymalice/gaycapital/gayfear

was inspired by a previous reblog’d tweet.