by Sara Oliver Wight (Originally published in Heartspark’s Resilience Anthology) I. An adolescent girl folded into herself and fell to the floor. She had short brown hair and sobbed on the linoleum tile of every public high school in America. “Pick him up,” directed a man in a vintage Led Zeppelin t-shirt to hisRead more about Coastlines (a story)[…]
Guest post by Joss Barton I am thinking a lot lately about motherhood in terms of trans women and how we enact motherhood to our sisters our siblings and our trans expansive communities, how our relationships to each other as trans women are at constant odds with violent systems of state and cultural oppression andRead more about NO MORE DEATH POEMS: A Dispatch from Saint Louis[…]
This past weekend, in collaboration with poet laureate Joss Barton and Trans Metro Umbrella Group, Heartspark Press held its first writing workshop for trans writers of color by trans writers of color, CICADAS AND CONEFLOWERS. For five days, we descended into the heart of the Midwest to create a safer space for our black andRead more about A little update from Saint Louis, Missouri at our first workshop for trans writers of color[…]