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