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Black Queer Voices to Add to Your Life
By The Editors
Fact: Pride Month wouldn't exist without Black queer advocates. What many are learning is that Pride Month and LGBTQ+ rights wouldn't be where they are today without key events like the Stonewall Riots and activist Marsha P. Johnson. In honor of Pride Month and the Black lives crucial to the movement, we're taking a moment to recommend some revolutionary voices in the Black queer community. Remember this as you celebrate the last day of Pride: All Black Lives Matter.
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We Need Submissions for our Black Lives Matter Anthology!By The Editors  While regular submissions are still open as always, we do have a special call for our latest anthology, which will highlight Black (yes, a capital B. Check the new AP style book rule!) voices.
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Supporting Good Authors Isn't a Mystery
By Melissa Schack
Clarissa Goenawan is an Indonesian-born mystery writer based in Singapore. She has written two novels set in Japan: Rainbirds and her most recent work, The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida. In Perfect World, the author explores the identity of Miwako Sumida, a university student who dies by suicide and the impact it has on the people around her.
You can find her on Twitter @ClaireClaire05 and Facebook/Instagram @ClarissaGoenawan. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Powerful Sculptors
By Suzanne Cottrell
Millions of years ago, rocks shifted, buckled, and collided like derailed train cars. Wind and water ate away at rocks and created distinct waterfalls, “The Sisters.” The power of water intrigued me, so one May afternoon when a writers’ conference allocated some free time, I convinced Sarah to go hiking at DuPont State Recreational Forest, located halfway between Hendersonville and Brevard, North Carolina.
I have found hiking therapeutic and inspirational for my writing. As Sarah and I hiked to Triple Falls and High Falls, I reflected on the power of natural forces, as well as forces that have shaped my life. My conversation with Sarah was minimal and focused on our nature observations. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Five Things That Lasted Longer than the Official ConfederacyBy Rebel Tipton  What I'll never get is why we cling to a legacy of men whose war was one of the most pathetic power plays in human history. But whatever, there's plenty of things I'll never understand about men or people in general who still think worshiping official losers is cool.
While the legacy of Confederate culture is still alive and embedded into our culture (along with all of the other things allowing systemic racism to continue), the official Confederate States of America only lasted five years. So tune in and discover five things on this shitty planet that lasted longer than these glorified participation trophies...which is worth mentioning that we never ever wanted. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Gorongosa Coffee Offers a World-Saving Sustainability Model
By Gretchen Gales
Photo courtesy of Gorongosa National Park
Gorongosa Coffee isn’t your typical “feel-good” premium coffee brand for a cause. Instead, the brand is the example of the way a cause-focused brand should be: people first and community-centered. Based out of Gorongosa National Park, it could be the key to making the country of Mozambique the epicenter of a business model sustainable enough to save the planet.
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On Being a Baby Bi MoonieBy Ghia Vitale  People might call me strange for saying this, but when I look back, noticing anime girls was one of my earliest expressions of queerness. Even as a young child, watching Sailor Moon made me aware of the sapphic attraction that’s always been inside of me.
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Refocused EnegryBy Melissa Schack  Mike Corrao is the author of two novels, Man, Oh Man (Orson's Publishing) and Gut Text (11:11 Press); one book of poetry, Two Novels (Orson's Publishing); two plays, Smut-Maker (Inside the Castle) and Andromedusa (Forthcoming - Plays Inverse); and two chapbooks, Avian Funeral March (Self-Fuck) and SPELUNKER (Schism - Neuronics).
Based in Minneapolis, he experiments with text as a surface that can inhabit different mediums. His recent work, Smut-Maker, is a vibrant play that encourages interaction with the text. You can find the author on Twitter @shmikeshmorrao. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Zooming Right AlongBy Kay Smith-Blum  I note the time through a cascade of hair I’m blowing dry upside down. I only wash my hair on Zoom days, an effective ploy. The more hair to muss with, fluff, shake out, the less noticeable turkey neck is, don’t you think? I negated mascara in week three of stay-at-home-or-else days, deciding my long-distance glasses with dark metal rims give my eyes all the definition they need. Folks I used to put a face on for have gone missing these days. A text skitters across my cell phone screen. Miranda is asking if there is a number she can call. I raise halfway up and text back saying how easy it is to just download Zoom to her laptop.
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The Exception to Short Story CollectionsBy Melissa Schack  I don't normally read short story collections. I might dabble with one story out of an anthology of a favorite author. As Jane Austen once said, “If a book is well written, I always find it too short.” Yet in this case, the stories in Instances of Head-Switching are bite-sized pieces that come out as a satisfying, well-written collection.
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