The B'K Magazine
The B’K is a quarterly art and lit magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all. Own voices only, please. Queer, Trans, ND, and POC led. Founded 2010.
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- Oh, no! We didn't get enough submissions for a full issue. So, we're leaving submissions open until Feb 25. Send us your work on the theme of "repair." Open to racially and ethnically marginalized, gender variant, and disabled creatives only. Guidelines: www.globalmajoritypress.org/guidelines/
- #FF It’s National Pie Day! To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “P”! @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @paranoidxtree.bsky.social @paraselenemag.bsky.social @parthianbooks.bsky.social @peasantmagazine.bsky.social Cont ⬇️
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- Please note CWs 14 days I gave in return for 14 stolen years Each of those days I dedicated to memorizing the lines on my grandfather’s face. Lines that were not there, when I last was. Read more by Nadia Mustefa in The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/
- On a quiet silvery night, you stretch a hand to touch the moon’s face—to steal, maybe a pinch of its serenity and bury it inside your chest. Read more of "The Moon, A Country, And Litany of Boys" by Daniel Aôndona in The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/
- Please note CWs Bind your chest, but not too tight; Find your community but you shouldn’t be too loud; Don’t wear skirts or dresses — you said you were a boy? Read more of "The Rules." by Gail Kaufman in The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/
- The B'K Magazine, Volume 17, Issue 1 launches on Jan 1! It features cover art from Boluwatife Abiodun Emmanuel, as well as art by @mccloudwrites.bsky.social and Lynn Wolfe; fiction by Delaney Kelly, Katara J. Z., and Sophia Krich-Brinton; and nonfiction by @odiwelter.bsky.social.
- We are excited to announce our nominees for the Pushcart Prize! They are: “The Warm-Dark-Small” by Sophie Najm “Erasure poem from NHS clinical commissioning policy on puberty blockers” by Stella Aster “Porcelain Doll” by Natalie Gachoka “The dead house” by Bharti Continues 🔽
- #FF It’s Faux Fur Friday! To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “F”! @faeriepress.bsky.social @fahmidangroup.bsky.social @fastfleshlit.bsky.social @fiddlehd.bsky.social @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @filthyloot.bsky.social Cont ⬇️
- Please note CWs “I might faint,” you say, pallid-faced, bent over in your chair. Your pajama leg is yanked up to expose the meat of your thigh, the syringe hovering in your trembly hand. Read more of "Fear of Needles" by Jeanette Barszewski in The B'K Magazine: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/
- #FF It’s Kangaroo Awareness Day! To celebrate, give ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community beginning with “K” & “A”! @kegedoncepress.bsky.social @adimagazine.bsky.social @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social @abodepress.bsky.social @kwelijournal.bsky.social @acdclitmag.bsky.social
- #FF It’s Loud Shirt Day! To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “L” or “S”! @scarletferret.com @lit-namjooning.bsky.social @s2fjournal.bsky.social @longreads.com @sadpress.bsky.social Cont ⬇️
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- The B'K Volume 16, Issue 4 is here! Check out "Lilac Bruise" by Aicha Benali! This gorgeous digitized sketch is the cover art for The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4. Be sure to read the full issue here: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
- Check out the full photo, "In the Body" by Jaina Cipriano in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/the-bk-archi...
- The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4 launches on Oct 1! It features poetry by Daniel Aôndona, @daragoodale.bsky.social, Dorothy Lune, Grace K. Schmitt, Hayley Garcia Parnell, @lsparks.bsky.social, Nadia Mustefa, Natalie Gachoka, Saheed Sunday, sofia abbas, and Spencer S.
- CW: Historically implied theme of suicide Once the receptors in my brain have brought me to REM, I awake to the site of a polished, desolate castle. I see no cracks along the foundation, but it is quite easy to make out the gilded nature of that polished door.
- The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4 launches on Oct 1! It features cover art from Aicha Benali, as well as art by Amuri Morris and Donald Patten; fiction by Han Nelson, Jeanette Barszewski, and Lyan Angela Agustin; and nonfiction by Gail Kaufman, J. D. Harlock, and Sydney Ronquillo.
- documentaries and textbooks will tell you that what they sing is only a matter of survival: conveying facts, seducing mates Read more of "the birds sing a song of revolution" by Audrey T. Carroll in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
- start by setting up a macro, an easy button to click at the beginning of a dungeon, trial, raid. Read more of "advice for self-introductions in final fantasy xiv, when you play with a disability" by @raynealarcio.bsky.social in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
- Check out the oil painting "Eternal Embrace " by Amuri Morris in All My Relations, Volume 9! Be sure to review the piece and read the full issue here: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
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- #FF It’s HR Professionals Day. To celebrate, give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “H” and “R”! @haikutsunami.bsky.social @hauntedwordspress.bsky.social @ratbaglit.bsky.social @hauntpublishing.bsky.social @haydensferryreview.bsky.social Cont ⬇️
- Cut my lip deep on your shoulder blade in a dream about hummingbird finger-tipped calculations of the slope of the lines we crossed. Read more of "Sentence Structure" by James Roach in The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
- Please note the CWs If a man can kill— or order the killing of the helpless— (which, by the way, is the same) does that make him complicit in the plunder too? Read more of "Rodrigo Duterte is someone’s father" by Neen Ramos in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
- CW: Ableism When I am old, I will not wear purple. I will be purple. Bruised knuckles from knocking on closed doors, lip split from biting down words they do not want to hear. Read more of "Warning" by Aspen Greenwood in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
- Please note the CWs It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. Read more of "Assata Said" by Leo Rose Rodriguez in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
- CW: Depictions of sex work it is a Saturday in April and im standing in the bathtub peeing on my feet for strangers on the screen. “Squat lower...” “Stand up now…” “Oh yeah…” “That’s great…” Read more by @bretonlikethecape.bsky.social in The B'K Mag: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
- Please note the CWs You stuck your slurs into my skin when you tried to silence me, afraid of my aberration. Read more of "Your Remains are My Religion" by @sarendipitous.bsky.social in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
- Ancestry.com offers me vacation packages to return to my roots, the 38% of me that burns quickly under the sun, like paper: slow and unbinding as the flame crawls through wrinkles. Read more by @poetloz.bsky.social in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
- Please note the CWs In the Depression Phase of 2024, we obviously couldn’t repeat the watch history from the Depression Phase of 2023. All Scooby-Doo and Barbie movies had been checked off the watch list. Read more by Kristia Vasiloff in All My Relations: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
- Check out the full collage, "The City and a Dream" by Anna Kirby in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
- Reposted by The B'K MagazineHeritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.
- Please note the CWs genocide is also a pandemic if that word feels easier to comprehend through lived experience. Read more of "art as action" by @jpthorn.bsky.social in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
- Please note CWs you were gibberish chatter in the only tongue I knew, laughing and snapping pictures of anything that fascinated, Read more of "To the tourists who thought I was part of the scenery," by Rumi Sidhu Petersen in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
- Check out the Charcoal on paper piece "Rebellious " by Adedeji John in All My Relations, Volume 9! Be sure to review the piece and read the full issue here: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
- Please note CWs At the Annual Equality & Diversity Summit, four Nectarines and a solitary Lime gather at a round table. Long before Charcuterie boards were trending, the Nectarines’ ancestors had peeled away the idea of other names for the Summit, settling on “Equality & Diversity.”
- Please note the CWs That morning, a boy climbed the roof of a closed-down library and started burning books. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t shouting either. Read more of "Ash Alphabet" by Fendy S. Tulodo in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
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- #FF It’s Video Games Day 🎮. To celebrate, give some ❤️ & a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “V” & “G”! @vestalreview.bsky.social @galleon-books.bsky.social @villaineralit.bsky.social @gameoverbooks.bsky.social @viridinelit.bsky.social @garlicpresslit.bsky.social
- Please note the CWs. They named us after survivors. Ybañez — letters twisted to outrun the persecution. A name that ducked beneath Moorish steel & sat quietly at the feet of the cross. Read more of "History & Inheritance" by X. Y. in All My Relations, Vol 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
- Check out the full painting, "Young woman" by John Swofford in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
