WSQ: BODY MATTERS
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors’ Note and Introduction
Shereen Inayatulla and Andie Silva

Tributes to Nikki Giovanni and Dorothy Allison
WSQ Board

SECTION I. Visual Art

Abuela, Ija Desnuda Surgio del Sacrificio Triangulo Bermuda and Camino Umbligo (Coralina Triptych)
Coralina Rodriguez Meyer

Because I Am Flesh
Emily Strong

Ancient Statuary Series and Figure Model Series
Jacqueline Hayden

500 years AGO
Jessica Mehta

Crossed Legs and Nothing Is Dead Down Here
Jesse Harrod

body, haunting
Lohitha Kethu

SECTION II. Articles

“Where Did Your Revolution Go?”: A Fleshly Narrative of Enghelab-e Jina
Niloofar Rasooli

The Body in Paincraft: Queer, Crip Notes on Hurting
heidi andrea restrepo rhodes

“Fat Women Can Be, and Are, Sexy”: The DIY Fat Spectacular Aesthetic of April Flores and Carlos Batts’s Porn Work
Yessica Garcia Hernandez

Tejano Drag Kings: Reclaiming Space, Place, and Culture Through Performance
Meagan Solomon

Black Anti-Bodies and the Traumatic Repercussions of Obstetric Racism
Dána-Ain Davis and Bisola Neil

Criminalizing Sex Work, Criminalizing Mothers: Unpacking the Legal Frameworks Impacting Sex-Working Parents
Regan Moss and Teagan Langseth-DePaolis

The Fermented Subject: Bodily Survival and Kinship-Building in Grace M. Cho’s Tastes Like War
Aimee N. Jurado

SECTION III. Classics Revisited

Colonial Residue on the Body: Making Sense of Puta Life
Aracely García-González

Lessons from Precolonial Yorùbá Society in the Age of “Anti-Gender”
Tèmítopé (Temi) Fàmodù

Manufactured Obsolescence: Writing Centers Through the Lens of Housework
Raquel Coy

Revisiting Melissa Febos’s Whip Smart: BDSM as a Praxis of Care
Ash M. Smith

SECTION IV. Book Reviews

Review of Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
Tuka Al-Sahlani

Review of Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History
Katrina M. Phillips

Review of A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Lava Schadde

Review of How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States
jah elyse sayers

Review of The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown
Asma A. Neblett

SECTION V. Prose

Damages
Gina Alexandra Srmabekian

The Rotten Department
María Mínguez Arias

The Facts of Comportment
Melissa Chadburn

It’s My Body and I’ll Hack at It If I Want To
Lohitha Kethu

SECTION VI. Poetry

Transformation
Damien Kritzer

Salon
Vanessa Chica Ferreira

A Poem in Which Gloria Guides Me Inwards, and I Thank Her with Ink
Avery C. Castillo

The Secret of Marination
Megha Sood

Anagram No. 4: Middle-Aged Woman
Jia-Rui Cook

SECTION VII. Alerts and Provocations

On Palestinian Embodied Futurities
Dana M. Olwan