Author: M Téllez
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Monk Reviews The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
Reading this inviting little faggot time capsule made me yet again contemplate and appreciate the power of unabashed fantasy – a word I choose over the utopia/dystopia binary. It’s a slender volume comprised of connecting vignettes, each only a page or three long. The perspective is outside/adjacent to violent/oblivious straight society. All sorts of fags…
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Monk Reviews Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Pieipzna Samarasinha
This review was originally posted direct to my Instagram on April 19, 2019, so I will keep all the markup from that original here. I wish everyone I knew read this book, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by @leahlakshmiwrites. It is so thorough and straightforward and good. It is stories. It is facts. It is…
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Monk Reviews Miscegenation Blues
Edited by Carol Camper. This review was originally posted direct to my Instagram on April 19, 2019, so I will keep all the markup from that original here. During the Philadelphia stop of her book tour, @leahlakshmiwrites, the author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice mentioned how reading this book did a lot for them,…
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Monk Reviews Cruel Fiction by Wendy Trevino
Shout out to Faye for pulling this off the shelf in Penn Book Center (now People’s Books & Culture) and telling me to at the very least read the last poem in the book. After flipping through and seeing critiques of Gloria Anzaldúa, POC identity, anti-Blackness, a poem for Jamie Berrout, and some other things…
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Monk Reviews Native Country of the Heart by Cherríe Moraga
Native Country of the Heart is Cherríe Moraga’s memoir about and relationship with her mother, Elvira. A friend and I went to go see Moraga speak at the book’s release at the People’s Forum in New York City, and we were both tearing up with deep feels in relation to the passages she read to…
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The Floating World: Ghosts of Mars
madam data presents The Floating World, a podcast of experimental sound and storytelling. Music in the sense of vacuum cleaners and power lines, a pulsating mechanical unconsciousness. It is sound to listen to while driving, walking through the city or taking the subway, while falling asleep at 3am to construction outside, when you need to…
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Transitional Times Transitional Body: Expanded
My first order of business for 2020 was to redesign and expand my 2019 short story collection, which started out as a zine and quickly became a 125-count book that sold out by the end of the year. I changed the dimensions, margins, cover color, header fonts, finessed the images to render a bit better…
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Monk Reviews ARKDUST by Alex Smith
ARKDUST. What can I say? I’ve watched local legend Alex Smith perform his short stories for years now, and his tales always always always make me giddy with amazement and emotion. I love the mixing of mundane details with fantastic element, his penchant for perspective jumping and simultaneous layer weaving, his exacting captures of the…
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Call for Smut: Venus Saturn Square returns
UPDATE 17 MAY 2020: Nobody’s been asking but the second issue of this zine is on indefinite hold, due to my lack of capacity thru this pandemic. Will pick it up when the time is right. Reach out to me with any questions you may have. CALL FOR SMUT: Slow-moving /venus saturn sqaure/ zine returns.…
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Monk Reviews The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
The History of White People is written by Black historian and author, Nell Irvin Painter. I haven’t read a ton of history books for fun, but this one was a ~very~ smooth read. Physically, it’s one of these floppy pulp paperback books with pleasing wop-wobble heft. There’s a chapter titled \White Slavery as Beauty Ideal\,…
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Heavy Prosthetic
Note: This is a smut story. And “hir” is prounced like “here” There was a strange wind-blown circuit. We were driving big machines and stopped into a weird, long motel. More like a town center, styled after some ole fantasy border town community BUT ALL THE SETTLERS WERE GONE. I met a heavy-prosthetic girl, a…
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A CROSS THRU
The child went missing. The man who took her insists she’s old enough. He tells her she’s old enough, more than other children her age. The child has been lonely. She wants to feel she’s old enough. She is not old enough. There is a monstrous gulf between a girl child and safety. I used…