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Summary

Consisting of nine chapters written by artists and ten conversations with artists, the book examines contemporary drawing practices which engage with sites of history, the environment and narrative, with a focus on experiences of placemaking. This book explores a range of contemporary drawing practices which engage with historical sites of narrative, with real and imagined places, and with drawing and the body as places of making. It focuses on how drawings and drawing processes can examine and articulate our relationships to placemaking, to our concepts of home, to historical and memorial sites, to our personal histories, and to imagined and actual places. The chapters and conversations with artists expand upon the complexities of the relationship between drawing and a particular position, point, area in space, location, or home. The contributing artists use expanded drawing approaches to present different perspectives on how drawings are made, and how they can be used to describe, analyse, reimagine, transform and to make new actual, historical, and psychological places. The artist authored chapters and the conversations with artists are interwoven to facilitate broader conversations about our human interactions with place, through all our senses; what we can see, touch, feel and hear, alongside what we know, theorise or imagine. The re-evaluation of placemaking from a range of cultural perspectives highlights new stories whilst reconsidering older ones. The exploration of projected and imagined places – outer space, and the shape of the world in the future, are also explored.

The book reveals new and contemporary insights into the long historical connection between drawing and placemaking and contributes to new debates around placemaking. It offers to a deeper understanding of how we use drawing to better define ourselves and our place in the world. This book will be vital for scholars, artists, students and those with an interest in art and how it comes into being.

The chapters reflect the research of their authors but are in accessible language. The interviews provide further insights in discursive form. Editors: Dr Simon Woolham, Artist and Lecturer in Contemporary Art (since 2017) in the School of Music & Design Arts, Centre for Cultural Ecologies in Art, Design and Architecture and Centre for Experimental Practices, University of Huddersfield. Professor Jill Journeaux, Artist and Professor of Fine Art (since 2004) in the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, Research Institute of Creative Cultures, Coventry University.

Key benefits the book offers:

The book is international in reach, including case studies from the USA, Canada, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Japan, New Zealand, Australia and the UK.

The book links the developing field of expanded drawing and the interrelationships of drawing and site to concepts of placemaking.

The book is written by artists and includes case studies and in-depth conversations with artists alongside authored chapters.

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Forthcoming: Book Chapter/Interview In Conversation 8, Drawing as Placemaking: Environment, History, and Identity, Bloomsbury, 2025.

Microfiction

ONE BOOK                                                   1,764 STORIES                                               1,764 AUTHORS                                             42 CATEGORIES                         42-WORD TALES

An anthology of 42 categories of 42 selected works of 42-word microfiction stories, and 42 art pieces, one per chapter.

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Microfiction - “Warlock’s Prophecy Written In Flesh N' Bone”, 42 Stories Anthology, MacKenzie Publishing, 2024.

Visual Poem

Visual Poem

The pages of Emergency INDEX are open to all who work with performance. In each annual volume, contributors document works made in the previous year. By including performances regardless of their country of origin, genre, aims, or popularity, INDEX reveals the breathtaking variety of practices used in performance work today. Each volume features a comprehensive index of key terms used by contributors in describing and discussing their own work. Each volume features a comprehensive index of terms used by contributors in describing and discussing their own work. Begun in 2011, INDEX is a lens for seeing the field of contemporary performance from the ground up. Issue 10/+, encompassing 2020-2022, is Ugly Duckling’s concluding issue before the series moves to a new home.

Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit publisher for poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. Through the efforts of a volunteer editorial collective, UDP was transformed from a 1990s zine into a mission-driven small press that has published more than 400 titles to date, and produced countless prints and ephemera. UDP favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers, and its books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, and periodicals often contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking. UDP is committed to keeping its publications in circulation with our online archive of out-of-print chapbooks and our digital proofs program. In all of its activities, UDP endeavors to create an experience of art free of expectation, coercion, and utility.

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Moore, Maurice, Visual Poem, EMERGENCY INDEX: AN ANNUAL DOCUMENT OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICE, VOL. 10/+, ART PERFORMANCE, by Emergency INDEX Contributors, Ugly Duckling Presse, December 2023, 860-861pp.

Book Chapter

Drawing While Black Aka Drawing Wit Nonbinary Light

Abstract

These performance drawings and performance writings centers Practice as Research. Meaning, not only engaging with finished work(s) like Visual Poems i.e. text-based works and/or visuals, or the criticism about these pieces, but I argue with this work similarly when I create 2D, 3D, 4D, and text-based pieces that it is equally important to practice making Black Visual Poems due to there being a scholarly and/or artistic knowing/knowledge, that is derived from the very act of practicing itself. By not considering drawing practices be they 2D, 3D, 4D, or text-based as research at the same level as finished works and/or the criticism in this field; what are we missing out on as creatives and/or scholars by privileging one form of research over the other? In otha words. For these new series of performance drawings and performance writings in this hybrid text, are part experimental films and Visual Poetry hybrid pieces came about because of the need for dis creatives navigating experimental mark makin exploring euphoria and dysphoria marks as a trans-nonbinary person navigating de art world. These visuals were created by incorporating elements of performance-drawing, performance writing, and binary code translators; to create immersive environments and engaging experiences relating to race, gender expressions, and gender identity coupled with black hxstories and cultural diasporic traditions in Amerikkkca. As the work evolved, I continued to consider what digital, analog, and ephemeral marks do if we let them be themselves. Shout out John Cage! The marks in this series of works were created by engaging wit Beautiful Black Blackty Blk Bodies ody ody ody ody ody ody ody ies of all shapes and sizes in the Black and Queer diaspora. Next, I decided to put my foot in it, and infuse da werk with African American Vernacular/Gesture English (AAVE) Image/Visual/Gestural descriptions thereby further expanding queer mark making. Moreover, I am drawing with vocabularies, sources, bibliographies, scripts, image descriptions, remixing past drawings, collaging visuals/texts, and incorporating queer Black theory to create these new experimental marks. In otha words! Catch A Glimpse Into De Latest Top Bottom Side Switch Vers Secret ProjectsFrom One Of De Worlds Mos Queertorious Femme Makers!

Generative Art & Design Lab, ARGENIA Association Info:

“Generative Art is the idea realized as a genetic code of artificial events, as the construction of dynamic complex systems able to generate endless variations.
Each Generative Project is a concept-software that works producing unique and non-repeatable events, like music, images, or 3D Objects, as possible and manifold expressions of the generating idea strongly recognizable as a vision belonging to an artist/designer/musician/architect/mathematician. The generative Idea / human-creative-act makes an unpredictable, amazing, and endless expansion of human creativity. We can create species of events with a recognizable identity, following our vision. Computers are simply tools for storage in memory and execution. This approach opens a new era in Art, Design, and Composition: the challenge is a new naturalness of the artificial event as a mirror of Nature. Variations, like in Bach music, are the best strong communication of the Idea. Once more man emulates Nature, as in the act of making art. This approach suddenly opened the possibility to rediscover possible fields of human creativity that would be unthinkable without computer tools. If these tools, at the beginning of the computer era, seemed to extinguish human creativity, today, with the generative approach, directly operates on codes of Harmony and codes of Identity. They become tools that open new fields and enhance our understanding of creativity as an indissoluble synthesis between art and science. After two hundred years of the old industrial era of necessarily cloned objects, music, architectures, communications the one-of-a-kind object becomes an essential answer to emergent contemporary aesthetical needs.” - Celestino Soddu & Enrica Colabella Chairs of Generative Art Conferences

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Book Chapter - Drawing While Black Aka Drawing Wit Nonbinary Light, XXVI GENERATIVE ART International Conference, GA2023, Generative Art & Design Lab, ARGENIA Association, Printed in Rome the 14th of November 2023, Domus Argenia Publisher, ISBN 978-88-96610-45-9, 270-284pp.

Book Manuscript

Drawing While Black Mixtape Vol 1

Abstract

Moore presents a text composed of visual poems that explore various types of quare mark making. Mark making dat allows Blk nonbinary people such as Moore, the space and freedom to push further and engage wit balancing and negotiating the joys & pains Black performers experience both inside and outside African and African American Diasporas as creatives. De tracks were created by incorporating elements of performance-drawing; to create immersive environments and engaging experiences relating to race, gender identity, gender expression coupled with black hxstories and cultural diasporic traditions in Amerikkkca. As the work evolved, Moore continued to consider what digital, analog, and ephemeral marks do if we let them be themselves. Shout out John Cage! The many, many, many marks in these works were created by engaging wit Beautiful Black Blackty Blk figures of all shapes and sizes in the Black and Queer diaspora! Next, Moore decided to put their foot in it, and infuse the work with African American Vernacular/Gesture English (AAVE) Image/Visual/Gestural descriptions thereby further expanding queer mark making. Moreover, they are drawing with vocabularies, sources, bibliographies, scripts, image descriptions, remixing past drawings, collaging visuals/texts, and incorporating queer Black theory to create these new experimental marks.

Versal Editions

For nearly twenty years, Versal has been a nucleus of literary arts and experimentation in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in print and on stage. Our community-centered publishing and curation continue against a backdrop of global injustice, and in fact are the very tools we use to fight the burning world. Versal Editions is the small press imprint of Versal,
founded in the spirit of Amsterdam’s misfit ethos.

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“In the period of Beyoncé's Renaissance, the cutthrough couture of Pose in the cultural divinity of NYC ball, and the delicious audacity of black queerness across texts, music, film, art, and more, Drawing While Black emerges. We are invited into a distinctive lexicon of black, queer resistance in visual art and poetry. That page is pulsing with music, from the table of contents to defiant insistence on making one's own light. Moore balances their ink on paper highly gestural inserts as a full and "thicc thicc thicc" celebration of blackness against the field of white. The poems, fierce and fearless, intermingle pop culture, philosophy, and body positivity with revelatory moments of invitation into the artistic process in shaping meaning and the world. This collection is tongue pops, linguistically playful, beautifully irreverent to structural preservations of white heteronormativity and yet deeply reverent of the body and the figure. If you put this book down, really, what are you doing with your life?” -Raina Léon, poet and judge of the Amsterdam Open Book Prize 2022

“The vacillation between text and image in Maurice Moore's work draws a landscape that is both lyrical and percussive. Gestures, marks, bodies, and exclamations harmonize expanding the definition of what drawing is. They choreograph fragments from black history, queer identity, African American Vernacular, and personal experience. Moore’s visual poetry is a fierce celebration of drawing while black.” - Mary Laube 

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Book Manuscript - Drawing While Black Mixtape Vol 1, Versal Community-Centered Publishing & Curation Live From Amsterdam, Versal Editions, www.versaljournal.org, 2023.

Book Chapter Speculative Fiction

The Argenti Beast

Abstract

Although fictional, “The Argenti Beast” is a short story of one family’s journey to locate their ancestors while being part of the African and African American Diaspora. This proves to be as difficult and dangerous a task for them to complete as it is in the real world for a number of us. However, what aided me in creating this piece and processing the complexities of a diasporic identity was drawing upon a multiplicity of lenses and/or processes such as Foodways/Food Studies, Black Speculative Fiction, Practice as Research, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), and visual arts. For example, the saying “Black Don’t Crack!,” is part of African American Vernacular English (AAVE), which was used to create and/or draw from some of the existing Black folklore and/or Black aesthetics surrounding dark skinned people in order to create the monster in this text. Understand, this work is not about simply looking back and/or forward to connect with our ancestors. Moreover, just as I am responding to the complicated calls from the past with my drawings by weaving nonlinear lines; I am also creating lines with my text-based work(s) that intersect as well to create new visual pathways for the maker and the viewer that brings about clarity. Kima’s tale serves as a way of being and becoming with the many women of color, Femmes, and Butch Queens who make up our family trees and also drew from Black Queer Aesthetics to not only survive, but to thrive as well.

This is “The Argenti Beast”…

Volume Editors: Dr. Amanda Hobson and Dr. U. Melissa Anyiwo

Queering the Vampire Narrative offers classroom-ready original essays that continue our explorations of vampires as representations of the cultural Other, which builds on the work of our previous texts. The editors argue, ultimately, the vampire is a queer icon, infinitely blurring the boundaries of identity and cultural norms and queering even the most seemingly stable notions, such as life, death, humanity, and monstrosity. The Vampire is the undead monarch of subtextual articulations of Otherness, especially queer behaviors and desires, offering explorations of the AIDS epidemic, the destabilization of ideas of fixed and stable sexuality, the search for community and chosen family, and the issues of individual and generational trauma. In current fictions, vampires are coming out of the coffin and the closet, identifying as openly queer and often created by queer writers, artists, and directors and bringing the subtext to the surface of the narrative. This volume seeks to create a dialogue about the impact and importance of the vampire on queer identity and queer theory and to answer the questions of why the vampire is such a compelling queer icon and what visions of vampires articulate about our ideas surrounding issues of sexuality, sexual orientation, sexual behaviors, and desires.

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Moore, Maurice. Book Chapter - Chapter 12 “The Argenti Beast”, Queering the Vampire Narrative. Series: Queer Studies in Education, Volume: 2, Brill Publishers, 2023. 156–163pp.

DISSERTATION

“Practice As Research: Quareing Black Mark Making”

Abstract

Based on my artistic practice from my research involving expanded field theory; for example, my performance piece “Drawing While Black aka Non-Binary Joy” formerly known as “Drawing While Black aka Black Boy Joy,” is an exploration of sensorial feel/felt lines both in text and performative drawings involving 2D, 3D, 4D, and text-based art practices. Moreover, the work explores how Black, Indigenous, Queer, and People of Color (BIQPOC)'s have created a means of survival through visual/performance art, creating a mode(s) of active radical resistance. These mode(s) draw upon performative traditions including call and response, improvisation, reading, throwing shade, and African American Vernacular English (AAVE). My pieces extrapolate theories both from queer of color critique and Black foodways, synthesizing different dialects of an innovative visual/text languages. Mixing elements of Black foodways into my art practice has broadened my sense of what it means to reconstruct while simultaneously deconstructing the Black body. In my work, the lines created literally intersect, overlap, and make fluid many of the diasporic identities that colonial powers would have me believe are fixed. By doing this work I can reimagine ways to fight queer-antagonism, the erasure, and the deafening silences caused by colonial powers. In short, these processes of making renew the vitality of queerness and/or blackness in both my current artistic practice and in my scholarly pursuits.

These performance drawings and performance writings centers Practice as Research. Meaning, not only engaging with finished work(s) like Black speculative fiction(s) or Visual Poems i.e. text-based works and/or visuals, or the criticism about these fictions, but I argue with this work similarly when I create 2D, 3D, 4D, and text-based pieces that it is equally important to practice making Black Speculative fiction(s) due to there being a scholarly and/or artistic knowing/knowledge, that is derived from the very act of practicing itself. By not considering drawing practices be they 2D, 3D, 4D, or text-based as research at the same level as finished works and/or the criticism in this field; what are we missing out on as creatives and/or scholars by privileging one form of research over the other? For these new series of performance drawings and performance writings in this alternative hybrid text, I continue to consider what moving and/or still marks do if we let them be themselves. Shout out John Cage! The pieces in these new series of works consist of pieces, short experimental films, hybrid fictions, visual poetry all incorporating African American Vernacular/Gesture English (AAVE) infused Image/Visual/Gestural Descriptions which incorporate the creation or appropriation of Fictional and/or Nonfictional Citations, plus applying queer film theory; thereby further expanding queer mark making using digital, analog, and ephemeral materials.

Possible Qualifying Fields: Studio Art; Performance Studies; Queer of Color Critique; Practice as Research; Africana Studies

Key Words: Practice as Research, Performance Drawing, Drawing, Performance Writing, Performance Art, African American Vernacular English

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Moore, M. (2023). Practice As Research: Quareing Black Mark Making. UC Davis. ProQuest ID: Moore_ucdavis_0029D_22291. Merritt ID: ark:/13030/m5dc8x8p. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4r15x88h

Visual Poem

"Venus of Willendorf (Yeah, Baby, She's Got It) (feat. Sarah Baartman, Martha Wash, Izora Armstead"

Maurice Moore, 1 Selected Visual Poem: "Venus of Willendorf (Yeah, Baby, She's Got It)" from Anomaly 33. Copyright © 2021 by Maurice Moore. Reprinted by permission of Maurice Moore. Source: Anomaly, issue 33 (Anomalous Press, 2021), The Poetry Foundation, 2023.

4 Selected Visual Poems

48.2 Special Issue of Obsidian

Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Publications Unit, Department of English, Illinois State University, a body corporate and politic of the State of Illinois and a 501(c)(3) recognized charitable and non-profit organization. Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora has partnered with The Poetry Project to celebrate the launch of Obsidian’s LGBTQIA+ Gender Queer/Genre Queer Playground Special Issue, volume 48.2, guest edited by poet/performer/multi-disciplinary artist Ronaldo V. Wilson. This special issue of Obsidian features work that moves between terror & isolation to joy as possibility, necessity & form. Emerging and established writers & artists seek to make possible different experiences of ourselves and our world through queering form, content & genre.

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4 Selected Visual Poems 1). "Jus Be Honest n Say You Hate Fat People! Thicc Thicc Thicc (feat. Sarah Baartman, Biggie, Yes fats and Femmes)", 2). "When Dat Spirit Jump On Ya (Feat. Trans is Beautiful, Down Syndrome, Amputee, Body Positivity)", 3). "Let’s Talk About Seggs (Feat Oochie Wally, Trans is Beautiful, Disabled)", 4). "Afro-Bubblegum”, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora LGBTQIA+ Gender Queer/Genre Queer Playground Special Issue, volume 48.2, Publications Unit, Department of English, Illinois State University, obsidianlit.org, 2023.

Cover Image

"Venus of Willendorf (Yeah, Baby, She's Got It)"

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Maurice Moore, Cover Image "Venus of Willendorf (Yeah, Baby, She's Got It)" from Anomaly 33. Copyright © 2021 by Maurice Moore. Reprinted by permission of Maurice Moore. Source: Anomaly, issue 33 (Anomalous Press, 2021), COLLECTION Disability Poetics, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/159065/disability-poetry-and-poetics, The Poetry Foundation, 2023.

Digital Exhibition Catalogue

Articles from A.i.R. EXHIBITION | Reflections | 2023

This exhibition presents the work of the participants of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild 2022 Artists-in-Residency program. From ceramic pieces to video art, from painting, drawing and printmaking to written word and poetry, the diverse practices of the program artists creates a multidisciplinary exhibition produced during or inspired by their stay at Byrdcliffe. In a world that prioritizes production, residency programs offer a place for artists to generate ideas, experiment at their own pace and, most of all, reflect on their practice. We are excited to offer a chance to view the work of these talented individuals and memorialize their work as a part of Byrdcliffe's long and colorful history. Artists include: Kerri Ammirata, Ari Chaves, Sarah Crofts, Melissa Foss, Peter Fulop, David Greenwood, Morgan King, Ragubir Kintisch, Nancy Kim, Ariana Kolins, Cecilia Lu, Weihui Lu, Julia Maisel-Berick, Eliza McKenna, Amalya Mergeman, Maurice Moore, Zack Rafuls, Fionn Reilly, Allison Roberts, and Rochelle Voyles.

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Digital Exhibition Catalogue, A.i.R. EXHIBITION | Reflections | 2023 Published, Issuu Inc, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, 2023.

Visual Poem

"Sissy Dat Walk"

The Poetry Foundation recognizes the power of words to transform lives. We work to amplify poetry and celebrate poets by fostering spaces for all to create, experience, and share poetry. Established in 2003 upon receipt of a major gift from philanthropist Ruth Lilly, the Poetry Foundation evolved from the Modern Poetry Association, which was founded in 1941 to support the publication of Poetry magazine. The gift from Ruth Lilly allowed the Poetry Foundation to expand and enhance the presence of poetry in the United States and established an endowment that will fund Poetry in perpetuity.

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Maurice  Moore, "Visual Poem 1" from Anomaly, issue 33.  Copyright © 2021 by Maurice  Moore.  Reprinted by permission of Maurice Moore. Source: Anomaly, issue 33 (Anomalous Press, 2021), The Poetry Foundation, 2023.

Visual Poem

“Body Euphoria (Feat. Trans Is Beautiful, Big Boi Energy”

Zoeglossia is a literary organization that has pioneered a new, inclusive space for poets with disabilities.

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Visual Poem: “Body Euphoria (Feat. Trans Is Beautiful, Big Boi Energy”,  Zoomglossia Anthology, Chapbook, Zoomglossia, Zoeglossia, Zoeglossia Fellows Reading Series, 2023.

SPECULATIVE FICTION

“The Syncerus Legend”

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Decoded Pride Issue #3 (2022)

A speculative comic and story-a-day anthology for Pride month 30 queer and trans speculative stories and comics by queer and trans creators

“Decoded Pride is a story-a-day anthology of queer science fiction, fantasy, and horror by queer authors. We release a short story or comic to subscribers every day of Pride month and have full-color PDFs available year-round. In 2022, we're returning for our third issue of the Decoded Pride Anthology! Like the eerie feeling that someone's watching you, you can't shake us! We just keep coming back! And we know you're going to love this year's issue! We've got all the scares, laughs, and tears you could hope for with a healthy smattering of WTF mixed in! You'll find stories and comics that delight, stories that terrify, and stories that make you think. And what's even better is that every single story or comic in this issue was created by queer and trans creators who want to share their queer speculative vision with you! The point of Decoded is to create a space for queer folks to build community as fiction writers, comic creators, and readers. Together, we can make space for the kinds of queer stories the world so desperately needs. 30 original stories and comics will be released online in June--one every day of Pride month.” - Decoded Pride

Decoded Pride Issue #3: June 1: Ode to After Eulogies by Remy Chartier, June 2: Christ-Like by Leo D. Martinez, June 3: The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet by Simo Srinivas, June 4: The Wildest Dream by S.M. Hallow and Izzy Singer, June 5: Invidia by Christina Wilder, June 6: WE ARE ROBOT by Katlina Sommerberg, June 7: The Prophet from Seventrees by Lowry Poletti, June 8: The Agents of CLAW Save Christmas by Jeffrey Brown + Ink, June 9: The University of Late-Night Moans by Amanda McNeil, June 10: Platinum Venus by Illimani Ferreira, June 11: Pepper Honey and Cedar Smoke by K.S. Walker, June 12: All Shall Know Their Appointed Time by Lisa M. Bradley, June 13: The Mark by Sarah Bat, June 14: A Wolf in the Woods by Robin Quinn, June 15: Incident Report by Sarah Loch, June 16: The Bleeding God by Lindsay King-Miller, June 17: Suspension by K. T. Roth, June 18: Punk Rock Lesbians from Beyond the Grave by Darci Meadows, June 19: A Date to Remember by Glenda Poswa, June 20: Nebula by Akil Wingate, June 21: Nothing To Nowhere and Back by Ciko Sidzumo, June 22: Parasite by Callie Cameron, June 23: Hands, Heart, Hunger by V. Astor Solomon, June 24: The Syncerus Legend by Maurice Moore, June 25: When Day Becomes Night by RENEGAEDZ, June 26: Dust in the Barn by Natascha Lord, June 27: Devour Me by Sarah Edmonds, June 28: Like Cursive by Cameron E Quinn, June 29: Kitty’s Gas Station by Avra Margariti, June 30: These Whispering Remains by Izzy Wasserstein.

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“The Syncerus Legend”, Decoded Pride, A science fiction, fantasy, and horror story-a-day anthology for Pride month, Issue #3, https://decodedpride.com, 2022.

Visual Poems - Zine

Personal Histories; Work by 2021 AYP AIR Artists Zine

The closing reception for Personal Histories & Zine Release is Saturday February 12th!
If you have not seen this show, next second Saturday from 6-8PM will be the perfect opportunity to experience it.

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3 Selected Visual Poems: 1). “Body Euphoria (Feat. Trans Is Beautiful, Big Boi Energy)”, 2). "Body-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody" Remix (Feat. Down Syndrome, Amputee, Body Positivity)”, 3). "Sissy Dat Walk", Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Personal Histories: Work by 2021 AYP AIR Artists, Printed/Edited by:Verge Center for the Arts, Print edition of 150, Sacramento, California, 2022.

VISUAL Poems

3 selected Visual Poems: 1). “Sissy Dat Walk”, 2). “Venus of Willendorf (Yeah, Baby, She's Got It) (feat. Sarah Baartman, Martha Wash, Izora Armstead”, 3). “I Dreamed A Dream”,

Anomaly is an international journal of literature and the arts. We provide a platform for works of art that challenge conventions of form and format, of voice and genre.

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3 selected Visual Poems: 1). “Sissy Dat Walk”, 2). “Venus of Willendorf (Yeah, Baby, She's Got It) (feat. Sarah Baartman, Martha Wash, Izora Armstead”, 3). “I Dreamed A Dream”, Anomaly Issue 33, ANMLY :: Anomaly :: Anomalous Press, Anomalous Press, https://anmly.org.

Visuals

3 Selected Visuals: 1). “Body Euphoria (Feat. Trans Is Beautiful, Big Boi Energy)”, 2). “Bodyscape (Feat. This Bridge Called My Back)”, 3). “Body Dysmorphia (Feat. Trans Is Beautiful)”

A JOURNAL FOR WORK THAT INHABITS THE BODY

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3 Selected Visuals: 1). “Body Euphoria (Feat. Trans Is Beautiful, Big Boi Energy)”, 2). “Bodyscape (Feat. This Bridge Called My Back)”, 3). “Body Dysmorphia (Feat. Trans Is Beautiful)”, Issue 79 of Rogue Agent, http://www.rogueagentjournal.com, October 1 2021.

Speculative Fiction

Queene

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (CC/CS) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CC/CS publishes original scholarship that situates culture as a site of struggle and communication as an enactment and discipline of power. The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic and theoretical boundaries. CC/CS welcomes a variety of methods including textual, discourse, and rhetorical analyses alongside auto/ethnographic, narrative, and poetic inquiry. The journal especially invites essays that are intellectually innovative, reflexive, and relevant to democratic concerns in their examination of culture and communication. 

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Abstract:

Queene’s sojourn in the archives because she is part of the African and American Diaspora, proves to be difficult and even dangerous at times. The frustration and/or incompleteness involving some of the documents Queene uncovers purposely mirrors some of the same frustration(s) folks may come up against when grappling with one’s diasporic identity. Queene’s journey serves her as a way of being and becoming with the many women of color, Femmes, and Butch Queens who make up her family tree, who she finds, like her, also drew upon Black Queer Aesthetics to not only survive, but thrive.

Keywords: Queer of Color Critique, Foodways/Food Studies, Black Speculative Fiction, Practice as Research

Knowledge Focus: Practice

Title: Queene

Word Count: [4476]

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“Queene”, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Volume: 18, Issue: 03, pages 317 - 326, Taylor & Francis, 2021.

VISUALS

Free Your Soul & Mind, Incorporated presents its inaugural zine, "Chosen Family." We asked artists to reflect and consider the pain and the promise that is involved in creating alternative networks of care and support. Once created, what do these relationships look, feel, and sound like? How is family made and unmade again and again? Who have you claimed and who has claimed you?

In these times when community is key to our very survival, we ask creatives to submit their work that reflects the complexities of kinship. "Chosen Family" is a compilation of written work and mixed media that documents what it means to build affinity beyond blood.

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1 Selected Visual: 1). “Chosen Family”, Inaugural Zine, Free Your Soul & Mind, Inc.'s, https://app.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/chosen-family-an-inaugural-zine/7c35a312-06d0-40c3-9d6a-aaf589ec1e55, https://actifysm.squarespace.com/, 2021.

SPECULATIVE FICTION

“Paw Prints”

This issue of Mollyhouse features poetry and prose by writers who are not from this group: white hearing able-bodied heterosexual cisgender men. The third issue of Mollyhouse features artwork by Aleatha Lindsay as well as poetry and prose by Ken Anderson | Mark Bromberg | Brad Buchanan | Jackie Chou | David Cummer | Beau Denton | Francis Goodman | Cait Gordon | Randall Ivey | J. Ivanel Johnson | Lilah Katcher | Travis Chi Wing Lau | Van Ethan Levy | Stephen Lightbown | Cali Linfor | A’Ja Lyons | Mary McGinnis | Daniel Edward Moore | Maurice Moore | Cath Nichols | Naomi Ortiz | Felice Picano | Steven Riel | Gregg Shapiro | Karl Sherlock | Nicole Taylor | Antonio Vallone | Patricia Walsh | Mark Ward | Jamieson Wolf | Kathi Wolfe | Dan Yorty. This issue is edited by Raymond Luczak

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“Paw Prints”, Mollyhouse, Squares & Rebels, Handtype Press, http://www.squaresandrebels.com/mollyhouse/index.html, https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1094874, 2021.

Speculative Fiction

“One for The Road”

This issue of Queer Quarterly showcases art that reflects on the QUEER MIND. Artwork that invokes, inspires, and promotes queer thinking and queer thought will be considered across all genres.

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“One for The Road”, Mind Issue 2, Queer Quarterly Magazine, https://queerquarterly.com, 2021.

Visuals

5 Selected Visuals: 1). “Wagwan”, 2). “Toro Bravo (feat. Stop Animal Cruelty, Bull, Bovem)”, 3). “Pam Grier”, 4). “Black American Sign Language (Remix feat. Swag Surfin’)”, 5). “Swag Surfin’”

“Dictionary of Colors” is the fourth, and final, issue of Volume 1 of The Mobile Library. The Mobile Library provides a multi-digital exhibiting experience for artists and writers to showcase their work during the pandemic closures. Each publication is unique, paring artists and writers together at different stages in their career to build a collaborative experience.

Volume 1 Issue 4 is seeking 6 writers and 6 artists to submit: black & white drawings; pen & ink drawings; line drawings; short stories; journals; poems, etc. to help us create a fine art literary coloring book. This coloring book will be available for download to anyone from anywhere to participate in The Mobile Library. We hope this collaborative experience will provide a much needed distraction during the pandemic closures.

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5 Selected Visuals: 1). “Wagwan”, 2). “Toro Bravo (feat. Stop Animal Cruelty, Bull, Bovem)”, 3). “Pam Grier”, 4). “Black American Sign Language (Remix feat. Swag Surfin’)”, 5). “Swag Surfin’”, Dictionary of Colors, Volume 1 Issue 4, The Aerogramme Center, The Mobile library, QUARTERLY MAGAZINE, www.aerogramme.org, 2021.

SPECULATIVE FICTION

“Suga and CC”

Decoded releases a short story or comic to subscribers every day of Pride month. This anthology includes 6 comics and 24 stories with accompanying illustrations, all written by queer creators telling queer stories their own way.

“DecodedPride is AMPED to share our second story for #Pride: "Suga and CC" by Maurice Moore. This experimental short story is a prolific account of queerness, #trans identity, and the rich Black disaporic tradition in Black folkore told thru transcriptions.” - Decoded

Queer Spec is pleased to announce the schedule for Decoded Issue #2

DecodedPride.com
All thirty stories and comics are listed below, in the order they will be published.

June 1 │ “Re: The Abomination That Sprung From My Mind” by Jennifer Tran 

June 2 │ “Suga and CC” by Maurice Moore

June 3 │ “Neck and Neck” by Hay Mulholland

June 4 │ “Love, Satan” by J.D. Harlock

June 5 │ “Anomalous” by S.E. Fleenor

June 6 │ “Homebodies” by Arwen Meereboer

June 7 │ “Sisters of the Whispering Inferno” by Kayleigh Hearn

June 8 │ “Delan at the Shrine” by Dora Dee Rogers

June 9 │ “Volcanic Glass” by Kai Hudson

June 10 │ “Not Alone” by Nireleet

June 11 │ “An Offering to the Sun” by dave ring

June 12 │ “The Hunting Ground” by AJ Hartson

June 13 │ “The Other Boy and the Lake” by Leon Locke

June 14 │ “The Beacon of Influencership” by Monika Estrella Negra 

June 15 │ “Vivicus” by Shaya French

June 16 │ “Agents of CLAW” by Jeffrey Brown + Ink

June 17 │ “The Door Knocker” by Christopher Luis-Jorge

June 18 │ “More Efficient Than A Guillotine” by S.B. Edwards

June 19 │ “Soil and Starlight” by Gio E.

June 20 │ “Necessary Evils of Survival” by Yuna Briggs

June 21 │ “Slipping, but Not Falling” by Sara Century

June 22 │ “Doctors, Mothers, Soldiers, Ghosts” by V. Astor Solomon

June 23 │ “Emma, Vick, and Mary” by Silena Nikolopoulou

June 24 │ “Determined” by Ciko Sidzumo

June 25 │ “Deepest Chinatown” by Emmalia Harrington

June 26 │ “Two Strong Arms to Defend Myself” by Peter Vulfranc 

June 27 │ “In a Place Like This” by Robin Quinn

June 28 │ “Molt” by Elijah Marrone

June 29 │ “The Illiad Improved” by AriadneTzn June 30 │ “A Murder of Crows” by Akil Wingate

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Review

““Suga and CC” by Maurice Moore (short story) - This piece takes on oral storytelling and magic, nesting a narrative about two people facing the return of a beast that must be faced. The story seems to fit into a larger setting and storyline but works well on its own, a taste of this long history that is being uncovered, pieced together where it’s been broken by violence and prejudice. The voice of the piece is vibrant and the action is vivid and tense. I love the way that the nesting lends both an uncertainty to the work, an air of fiction, while also coming across as entirely genuine, revealing truths that people want and need to see. A fantastic read! Oral Storytelling, Governments, Magic, Trans Characters, Queer Characters. CW- Violence, Death, Slurs. [c3 t3] “ - Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews http://quicksipreviews.blogspot.com/2021/08/quick-sips-08062021.html

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"Suga and CC”, Decoded Pride, A science fiction, fantasy, and horror story-a-day anthology for Pride month, Issue #2, https://decodedpride.com, 2021.

Visuals

3 Selected Visuals: 1). “Sarah Baartman”, 2). “Q.U.E.E.N”, 3). “Being and Becoming”

Founded in 2020, EX/POST MAGAZINE (ISSN 2693-2911) is a nonprofit independent literary and arts journal.

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3 Selected Visuals: 1). "Sarah Baartman", 2). "Q.U.E.E.N", 3). "Being and Becoming”, EX/POST MAGAZINE, ISSUE III, https://www.expostmag.com, 2021.

Monologue

08:46 Monologue Collection

New World Theatre acknowledges that there is a crisis of understanding and awareness that is deeply rooted in our history of racism, and if we are ever going to fully dismantle the institutions of systemic racism, we need to stop... and listen to those who continue to suffer simply because they are black. We can no longer afford to ignore what is happening to our fellow human beings, which​ is why we are creating a collection of monologues that will give voice to those who can no longer remain silent. Through the power of writing and theatre, we can do our part to amplify the stories of systemic racism and raise the level of awareness and understanding to effect meaningful change in the human heart.

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Monologue - “Drawing While Black”, 08:46 Monologue Collection, New World Theatre, New World Theatre Publishing, http://www.newworldtheatre.org/0846-collection, 2021.

Visuals

3 Selected Visuals: 1) “Remix”, 2). “Demon Time”, 3). “I'm in the Mood for Love”

Existere - Journal of Arts and Literature is a publication established and administered by students at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Existere Volume 40 Issue 2 

Our editorial team has worked passionately to bring you the newest issue of Existere — Journal of Arts & Literature. We introduce you to The Spring/Summer Volume 40 Issue 2. Issue 40.2's release comes alongside the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic's beginning. Time continues to waver on, a non-stop dial spinning vigorously day by day. Even so, that dial shows us that time heals, no matter how little. The story that emerges from the works in this issue shares the message that in our isolation, no matter our hardships or struggles, we are not alone. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic placing us in these unprecedented times, our editorial team is pleased to present our readers with our new issue. We thank all the talented and devoted individuals who helped make this issue possible.

Our release features beautiful artwork by J. Matthew Gwathmey, Peter J. King, Kathleen Mooney-Childs, and Maurice Moore.
Issue 40.2 presents new fiction, non-fiction and poetry pieces by Cayenne Bradley, Susanne Fletcher, Corey McCullough, Laura Nicol, Joshua Rapp Learn, Shelby Rice, Leslie Alexander, Nicoline Antonovitch, Anne Hofland, Mobólúwajídìde Joseph, Kate LaDew, Natasha Rogers, Elena Stalwick, Janet Bartier, Reann Bast, Emily Kensley, Caitlin Lindsay, Dominique Panko, and Jessica Rich!

You can purchase a digital copy of 40.2 on the York University Bookstore.

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3 Selected Visuals: 1). “Remix”, 2). “Demon Time”, 3). “I'm in the Mood for Love”, Existere Journal of Arts & Literature, 40.2 edition, York University's Writing Department in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, https://existere.info.yorku.ca, 2021.

Visuals

5 Selected Visuals: 1). “You Can Be A Man and Have A Baby (Feat. Trans Is Beautiful)”, 2). “Ali Fear Eats the Soul”, 3). “body ady ady ady”, 4). “I Know What It's Like To Be The Only One In The Room (Feat. Call and Response)”, 5). “Waali Land”

NUNUM was established in January 2018 and released its first issue in March of the same year. NUNUM is published quarterly online and annually in print.

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5 Selected Visuals: 1). “You Can Be A Man and Have A Baby (Feat. Trans Is Beautiful)”, 2). “Ali Fear Eats the Soul”, 3). “body ady ady ady”, 4). “I Know What It's Like To Be The Only One In The Room (Feat. Call and Response)”, 5). “Waali Land”, NUNUM Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 2021, https://www.nunum.ca, 2021.

Nomination, 2021 Best of the Net – Best of the Net Anthology, Sundress Publications, http://bestofthenetanthology.com, https://www.nunum.ca/nominations2021.html, Maurice Moore, Waali Land, Ink on Paper, 19in x 24in, 2021.

Visuals

3 Selected Visuals: 1). “I Loves You, Porgy”, 2). “Love Hangover (feat. Maasai, Lascaux)”, 3). “Walkin' After Midnight”

A quarterly literary journal dedicated to flash fiction fueled by coffee and music.

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3 Selected Visuals: 1). “I Loves You, Porgy”, Acrylic on Paper, 9in x 12in, 2021 2). “Love Hangover (feat. Maasai, Lascaux)”, Ink on Paper, 13in x 17in, 2021 3). “Walkin' After Midnight”, Ink on Paper, 19in x 24in, 2021, Volume 2, Issue 2, Loud Coffee Press, https://www.loudcoffeepress.com, 2021.

SPECULATIVE FICTION HYBRID WORK

"Transcript – Text -Roberta Williams – Blood Rituals and Monsters of the Postbellum Momma’s Song and "Momma's Song"

Harpy Hybrid Review is an online literary journal that celebrates the many and varied ways literary and poetic expression can be combined. We seek works that are hybrid or cross-genre in form as well as visual art, including but not limited to prose poems, lyric essays, translations, song lyrics, diagrams, ekphrastic poems, multilingual work, broadsides, erasures, found poems, comics, collages, photography, etc.—not to be showy, but simply because they cannot be expressed in any other way. We seek to publish established and new writers, social justice and lyric works—anything that makes us look at the world in a different way. We appreciate humor, heartache, biting commentary, and dreamy surrealism. We like action and reverie.

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“Transcript – Text -Roberta Williams – Blood Rituals and Monsters of the Postbellum Momma’s Song and "Momma's Song”, Harpy Hybrid Review (HHR), Issue #4: Storytellers, http://www.harpyhybridreview.org/issues/issue-4-storyteller, 2021.

Visuals

3 Selected Visuals: 1). “Muscle Memory”, 2). “Call and Response”, 3). “Black Matter”, Mnemosphere Project

1). “Muscle Memory”, 2). “Call and Response”, 3). “Black Matter”

Mnemosphere is a research project born within Politecnico di Milano (Italy), that aims to investigate the different ways in which the identity and memory of places can be designed and communicated through atmospheric spaces capable of stimulating emotions. By bringing together the skills and tools offered by the culture of design and paying attention to both new languages and new technologies, the research aims to contribute to the understanding of the links between memory, exhibition spaces and emotions by creating tools and guidelines that could support the design of spaces that go beyond the traditional concept of memorial sites. Mnemosphere therefore bases its approach on a synergistic collaboration between different disciplinary fields. The driving force of the research is the dialogue between the design of communication for the territory and the design of installations in the atmospheric dimension. The interdisciplinary nature of the research is then enriched with the study and analysis of emotions, colour perception, and the design of temporary spaces and services.

This research does not aim to give a single definition to the concept of “mnemosphere”, but intends to start from the intangibility of its substance and the plurality of voices it contains, in order to visualize and communicate it.

3 Themes:

Atmosphere of Spaces - A temporary spatial condition between resonance and permeation – physical, cognitive, emotional – that involves the perceiving subject and the environment in a state of synchronicity. It is a phenomenon that occurs in space, characterizing it, and making the effects of experience permanent.

Memory of Places - A specific site that embodies a collective shared knowledge and at the same time a more private and personal form of attachment. The memory of a place is a manifestation that triggers in the perceiving subject a living memory and a construction of meaning.

Atlas Of Emotions - The entirety of nature and landscape of sensations, intensities and reactions related to the human lived experiences.

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3 Selected Visuals: 1). “Muscle Memory”, 2). “Call and Response”, 3). “Black Matter”, Mnemosphere Project: Atmospheres of Space Memory of Places, Atlas of Emotions, Design Department of Politecnico di Milano, https://www.mnemosphere.polimi.it, Milan, Italy, 2021.

Speculative Fiction

“Knight”

Strukturriss is an Ireland-based print & online quarterly with an anticapitalist, feral, experimental aesthetic.

“It is hard to believe how much amazing talent there is out there, writing and creating the prototext of tomorrow’s society. Out now for pre-order is Volume 2 Issue 2, jam-packed with thought-provoking, radically genre-bending, beautifully experimental writing and art for your reading pleasure.” -Strukturriss

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“Knight”, Strukturriss Quarterly Journal, Winter 2021 Issue 2.2, Cork, Ireland, (April 2021).

VISUALs

1 Selected Visual: “Legendary Children”

bozalta (del adj. voz alta y el adv. bozal) 1. Am. Falta de ortografía satírica que expresa la dualidad existencial de hablar en “voz

alta,” donde a su vez el sujeto parlante es consciente de su misma opresión.

bozalta - is an online publication that brings artists, activists, and scholars into a collaborative space where decoloniall ways of knowing and innovative forms of knowledge production

are shared as image, sound, and text.

bozalta - is a location from which to speak up and speak out, a space where muzzles are removed, and untamed, wild work is given place and prominence.

bozalta - features works that move fluidly across borders and in the languages of the Americas, towards social justice.

bozalta - aims to cultivate conversation across disciplines, from within, beyond, and between the spheres of academia, arts, and activism.

bozalta - is produced by a non-hierarchical collective of graduate students at the University of California, Los Angeles.

“The contributors of this edition are located in different spaces and places across the United States and elsewhere in the world. They share a practice of naming the joy, beauty, creativity, desire, and gratitude of/in this world—and especially during this time of profound uncertainty and change. “Joy & the Political Imagination” is the culmination of their stories, a collection of their diverse experiences as Black, queer, undocumented, Indigenous, and people of color. These stories reflect back their neighborhoods—like South Central Los Angeles, Oakland, California, Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, Chennai, India, and “where beauty grows,” as Mariela Luna Mayahuel, one of our contributors, shares. They reflect back their distinct relationships to these places and the people who live there. The contributors are food justice Chicanx advocates, Salvadoran poets living in the Southwest, and African-American and Chinese femme artists dreaming of abolitionist futures in the Southeast.  They are visionaries, dreamers, and futurists who remind us that in this time of the global Covid-19 pandemic and the movement for Black Lives we can turn social-distancing into creative community connections and work toward racial justice. Not only are our contributors fiercely creative, but also they are mothers, fathers, chefs, educators, migrants, advocates, first-generation undergraduate and graduate students, journalists, historians, and DJs. To our contributors, mil gracias for your faith in this edition and your willingness to share your beautiful experiments from the heart.” — The bozalta Collective
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1 Selected Visual: 1). “Legendary Children”, Joy and the Political Imagination Volume 4 , The bozalta Collective, https://bozalta.org, Winter 2021.

Speculative Fiction

“Transcript- Suga - Oral and Visual - Volumes 2 of 10”

Storm Cellar is a literary journal of safety and danger. We place a special emphasis on the Midwest, but even more emphasis on amazing writing and art. We aim to display aesthetic ambition as well as the work of authors and artists who are under-represented in the Anglophone literary world. We want everybody to get weird and enlightened and learn and fall in love and have superpowers. We want to surprise and delight and horrify and provoke. Storm Cellar is not a distraction but a cure for boredom.

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“O Reader, dear, look with us into a Black future, this speculative fiction story (partially serialized, as the title might suggest) by Maurice Moore: “Transcript- Suga – Oral and Visual – Volumes 2 of 10.” - Storm Cellar

“Transcript- Suga - Oral and Visual - Volumes 2 of 10”, Storm Cellar Vol. IX No. 1, winter 2021, “Fission.”

Visuals

2 Selected Visuals: #FanFriday, Crip Camp Film

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. A Netflix original documentary film, Produced by Higher Ground Productions. Now streaming on @netflix.

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2 Selected Visuals: 1). “Crutches, Seated in Wheelchairs Using a Walker and Standing”, 2). “Group of People Seated in Wheelchairs”, #FanFriday, Crip Camp Film, https://www.facebook.com/CripCampFilm/, 2021.

VISUALs

1 Selected Visual: 1). “First Kiss”

“An old joke goes: How many Surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? And the punchline is: fish. The kind of joke that registers half a grin, at best, but I remember it well because it struck me when I first heard it how the out-of-context-fish had somehow become the quintessential symbol for Surrealism. More recently, the melting clock has gained ground as an icon for Surrealism, but the fish will always have its place because of Andre Breton’s Soluble Fish, if not for how often it has shown up in Surrealist paintings. In Harbor Review’s sixth issue, our winter issue that marks the end of 2020, two of the poems specifically mention fish and two works of art depict bodies of water (which made me think of fish), another work of art is in the Surrealist mode, and several other works of both poetry and art have Surrealist elements. As I have studied this issue, these elements keep jumping out at me, reminding me of Gertrude Stein’s “Single Fish,” Frank O’Hara’s “Why I Am Not A Painter,” and René Magritte’s “La Trahison des Images (The Treason of Images).”

French intellectual Julien Benda wrote La Trahison des Clercs in 1927, a work, apropos to 2020, about the treason of the intelligentsia against their own intelligence. Magritte’s famous pipe first made its appearance in 1929, ostensibly about the treason of an image against itself. Surreal and Treason have come to mind often this past year as the world has transformed into a canvas of images that fly in the face of expectation, that betray our trust; as events have unfolded erratically, unexpectedly, fishily. Harbor Review’s sixth issue appeals continuously to these ideas, as a surreal reflection of the year we’ve had. Everything here has an element of the surreal or the imaginary-treasonous. We can, “sip your quiet elements from a jar” as Jordan Escobar puts it in his poem, “Hypodermic September,” or stare into the iridescent depths of Jocelyn Ulevicus’ “The Mooring,” and come away with a sense of the surreal. We can wonder at the depth of passion conveyed by so few lines in Maurice Moore’s “First Kiss,” “or some / chaotic chimera involving / all three—a beautiful toy” (Rachel Stempel, “Aquaria”).”

— Gregory Stapp, Editor-in-Chief, January 2021

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1 Selected Visual: 1). “First Kiss”, Harbor Review, Winter Issue 6, Small Harbor Publishing, https://www.harbor-review.com, 2021.

Speculative Fiction

Raheem’s Dance

“HIVES is an ongoing scholarly, artistic, and communal organization dedicated to developing an understanding of the ways in which matter and beings function in interdependent networks. This research workshop seeks to create a generative space for conversations at the intersections of disability studies and animal studies in popular culture. In his book Brilliant Imperfection, Eli Clare emphasizes how “White Western culture goes to extraordinary lengths to deny the vital relationships between water and stone, plant and animal, human and nonhuman, as well as the utter reliance of human upon human” (Clare 136). Clare offers the disability studies notion of interdependence as a way to undo fantastical narratives of independence and the individual. HIVES is an engagement with hiveminds, relationality, and interdependence across and within animal/human divides. This research workshop draws on popular culture in the form of novels, films, and video games and theory from disability studies to critical race theory to queer studies to animal studies in order to think through disrupting white western denials of interdependence. We are guided by the questions: what are the potentials and pitfalls of the overlap between disability and animal studies? what forms of inter-reliance arise from lived disabled existence and/or representations of disabled characters in popular culture? what does (and does not) separate animals and humans? what frictions exist in turning to animal studies to find alternate conceptions of relational being?” — HIVES

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“Raheem’s Dance”, HIVES Buzz-Zine Vol 1 Human Animal Relations, HIVES Research Workshop and Speaker Series on Disability and Animal Studies in Popular Culture Digital & Print Zine, https://behives.org, 2020.

SPECULATIVE FICTION

“LAMONT IN FLIGHT”

Rigorous is an online journal highlighting the works of authors, artists, critics, and educators of color.

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“Lamont in Flight”, Rigorous, A Journal by Black, Indigenous, & People of Color, Volume 4 Issue 4, 2020.

Critical Essay

“Drawing While Black Revisited: Reflections of an Academic Snap! Queen”

“Drawing While Black Revisited: Reflections of an Academic Snap! Queen,” Unlikely Stories Mark V, www.unlikelystories.org, 2020.

Abstract: Demystifying the process of drawing is important and beneficial because of several reasons beyond an exploration of the senses. One being is that it considers the audience to be more than just spectators and/or consumers of art, but it also invites people to be practitioners of art-making as well. A large number of people hold a lot of common misconceptions and/or insecurities/fears when it comes to the act of drawing.

Keywords: Art, Drawing While Black, Black Performance Art, African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), Practice as Research, Drawing

Subjects: Practice as Research, Performance Studies, Visual Art, Drawing

Poem

“Cooking With Rage”

“Cooking With Rage”, As Loud As It’s Kept Magazine, MAGAZINE ISSUE 2 VOL 1 2020, www.alaikmag.com, August 21, 2020.

Visuals

4 Selected Visuals: The BLACK LIVES MATTER EZINE Special Issue, LOUD & QUEER

The BLACK LIVES MATTER EZINE features Black queer and trans creators and their poetry, art, writing, media, and more.

1). “The Tradition”, 9” x 12” Acrylic on Paper 2019

2). “Hands Up Don’t Shoot!”, 9” x 12” Acrylic on Paper 2019

3). “Token", 9" x 12” Ink on Paper 2019

4). “Legendary Children”, 9" x 12” Acrylic on Paper 2019

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4 Selected Visuals: 1). “The Tradition”, 2). “Hands Up Don’t Shoot!”, 3). “Token”, 4). “Legendary Children”, The BLACK LIVES MATTER EZINE Special Issue, LOUD & QUEER, loudandqueerzine.wixsite.com, 2020.

Visuals

5 Selected Visuals: Wicked Gay Ways (WGW), Summer 2020 Issue

“Wicked Gay Ways is an online arts journal seeking to create connections across the many dimensions of queer sexual desire as embodied in art and the creative process. Wicked Gay Ways publishes work from both new, emerging and established artists. We offer thoughtful and provocative dialogue through a wide-range of work presented. We begin our work from the acknowledgment that there already exists an impressive and diverse body of erotic and sexually relevant work in art, performance, dance, music, film and literature in both the Western and Eastern cannon. We desire through Wicked Gay Ways to expand on the understanding of the work that has come before us, while presenting the creation and evolution of newer work and how this work addresses and is in turn shaped by the evolving influence and role that sexuality and desire continues to play in our individual and artistic lives. Welcome to the labyrinth.” — Susan DiPronio and David Acosta, Editors

“Dear Reader: Welcome to our summer 2020 issue. We are delighted to feature a wide range of work by USA based writers as well as writers and artists from Malaysia/New Zealand, Australia, and France, all working in a wide range of genres and writing styles, as well as the work of four visual artists with some very different approaches not only to their craft but to subject matter as well.” — Wicked Gay Ways

1). “Trans is Beautiful”, 8.5” x 11” Acrylic on Paper 2019 Drawing

2). “Arouse”, 8.5” x 11” Acrylic on Paper 2019 Painting

3). “Orgy”, 8.5” x 11” Acrylic on Paper 2019 Painting

4). “Stroke Session”, 9” x 12” Ink on Paper 2019 Drawing

5). “My Pussy Pops Severely And Yours Don’t”, 8.5” x 11” Acrylic on Paper 2019 Painting

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5 Selected Visuals: 1). “Trans is Beautiful”, 2). “Arouse”, 3). “Orgy”, 4). “Stroke Session”, 5). “My Pussy Pops Severely And Yours Don’t”, Wicked Gay Ways (WGW), Summer 2020 Issue, www.wickedgayways.org, https://www.wickedgayways.org/new-page-76.

Critical Essay

“Drawing While Black, aka Black Boy Joy”

“Confluence is a national, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal published by the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs (AGLSP), reflecting the best scholarly and creative work, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art, produced within and beyond AGLSP member institutions. Confluence stands as a demonstration of and an inspiration to the kind of interdisciplinary engagement that is constitutive of a liberal education, while emphasizing the fundamental relations that transcend the boundaries of discipline and form and invite engagement and exploration.” — Confluence

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Moore, Maurice. “Drawing While Black, aka Black Boy Joy”, Confluence – Vol. XXV, No. 2, By AGLSP Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, www.confluence-aglsp.org, Fall 2019 Issue, 129-147.

Abstract: The present study seeks to cover wide ground; I will consider theoretical ideas such quare technology, queer diaspora, and disidentification. Along the way I will also discuss the development and performance of my art, and I hope to articulate the effects of my performative work on me personally as well as the effects I hope to see in the audience and the larger society for whom my performance takes place.

Keywords: Art, Quare Technology, Queer Diaspora, Disidentification, Drawing While Black

Subjects: Queer of Color Critique, Performance Studies, Visual Art, Drawing,

Exhibition Catalogue

Art on Paper 2012 Exhibition Catalogue

Art on Paper 2012 features regional, national and international artists who have produced significant works made on or of paper. Sixty-five artists were selected through submissions and by invitation. As a special feature this year, Curator of Exhibitions Xandra Eden formed an advisory committee of artists whose work was presented in Art on Paper (AOP) 2006, 2008, or 2010 to select the invitational portion of the exhibition. The committee includes: Tomory Dodge (AOP ‘08), Franklin Evans (AOP ‘06), Jiha Moon (AOP ‘08), Frank Selby (AOP ‘10), and Stacy Lynn Waddell (AOP ‘08). Each of these artists nominated five other artists to participate in this year’s biennial.

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Art on Paper 2012: The 42nd Exhibition Catalogue, Group Exhibition, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC.  

Thesis

“Discovering Through the Act of Making”

Abstract: My drawing subject is the human form. I focus on my own body in my large scale, and text-related pieces. I also work from direct observation and invention. I am actively searching for ways to express my gender identity and sexuality. With the drawing, collage and free writing, I broaden my notions of what it means to reconstruct while I simultaneously deconstructing the human form. Creating the form in public reveals how it's created. The materials and public performance further aid me in my quest to establish and maintain my identity(s) as a gay black male. I am attempting to dissect and explore each facet of what it means to be a gay person and a person of color in the 21st century.

Keywords: Art

Subjects: African American Men Race identity, Gay Men In Art, Gay Men Identity, African American Men In Art

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Moore, Maurice. M.F.A. Thesis “Discovering Through the Act of Making.” Directed by Jennifer Meanley. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), library.uncg.edu, 2011, 14pp.

Visual

“Heavy Cross”

Coraddi Magazine UNCG's Art & Literary Magazine est. 1897

The Coraddi is UNCG’s arts and literary magazine, founded in 1897 as The State Normal Magazine. Today, the name has been changed in honor of its founders: the Cornelian, Adelphian, and Dikeian literary societies of the State Normal and Industrial College (which would later become UNCG)!

As a creative publication, we aim to support UNCG artists by showcasing them in our magazine. The Coraddi accepts visual and literary student art to be featured in its upcoming edition. Over the years, The Coraddi has taken on many different shapes and sizes, from print to online, and every imaginable style in between. Currently, our publication is available both digitally and physically (while supplies last). Editions of the Coraddi are released/ published biannually and accept submissions from all current UNCG students and alumni.

Current Coraddi team members, made up of students, select pieces through a blind and anonymous voting process. This process ensures there is no bias and each piece is viewed fairly.

Mission

Our mission as the Coraddi, is to make undergraduate/graduate literature and visual art widely accessible through a student-led, semi-professionally organized and free publication. We strive to provide artists at UNCG a dependable, meaningful connection to showcase their work not only to the community on campus and in the city of Greensboro, but on a national scale.

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“Heavy Cross”, 1 Selected Visual(s), Corradi Magazine Juried Student Art, Poetry, and Literature Magazine, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, 2011, p32.