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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The fate of All That’s Left zine
As the web master/low-key archivist of mine and METROPOLARITY‘s efforts over the years, I recently realized that there was little mention or even an image of my old All That’s Left zine series here. Although ATL is a featured category of my writing…
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Monk Reviews Old Futures: Speculative Fiction & Queer Possibility by Alexis Lothian
This review was originally posted direct to my Instagram in May of 2019, so I will keep all the markup from that original here. I came across this book in @pennbookcenter* >> Alexis Lothian’s OLD FUTURES: Speculative Fiction & Queer Possibility. Very much…
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