Lightflies

Dillard asks, which of you want to give your lives and be writers?


Identities

It's usually right / to say You are lost, when you is so many of us,


Parable

This is a survival chore.




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Four closet shelves with an assortment of clothing piles in disarray. Among the items are yellow, gray, and brown knit sweaters; a pale blue and white striped button-down shirt; and T-shirts.

To Have (Stuff) and to Hold

Who were we as an adult couple, not just two college kids sleeping on each other’s hand-me-down mattresses?


Landscape photo of the purple sky after the sun has set. A few clouds are dark against the purple.

Dictionary

Purple: The color of longing, of the blood in your veins that your heart is pumping, butterflies and all.


On the left, a photo of KB Brookins -- a Black person with long two-colored locs -- sitting on the floor in jeans and a tshirt, laughing. On the right, Brookins's book cover -- a shirtless Black person with soft afro hair closes their eyes and birds tattooed on the person's chest fly off their body into the sky.

Q&A with KB Brookins, author of Pretty

"All the books that I’ve written so far are iterations of the same person learning more about what it means to be a Black trans person."