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The B'K Magazine
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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. Check our guidelines and submit: https://www.talbot-heindl.com/link-tree
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 7d
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
Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 7d
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...
A black and white photo of a woman in a jumpsuit walking through her enormous chalk outline.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 8d
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.
Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal. Text overlaid is the list of poets featured in the issue. Text at the bottom says These pieces and more launching October 1!
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 8d
Read more by @foreverasheley.bsky.social in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Naa's piece.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 8d
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.
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Naa's piece.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 9d
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.
Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal. Text overlaid is the list of artists, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers featured in the issue. Text at the bottom says These pieces and more launching October 1!
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 9d
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...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "the birds sing a song of revolution" by Audrey T. Carroll. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 10d
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
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Rayne's piece.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 11d
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...
Three African Amercan woman hugging each other in a row. Their skin is rendered but their clothing is simplistic lifework and the blue of the background. The background shifts from white near the top of the womans head to blue.
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Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social · 13d
This is so good!
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 14d
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
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Aspen's piece.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 11d
#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”!
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@riotinyourthroat.bsky.social
@hollowoakpress.bsky.social
@hyphenpunk.bsky.social
@riverheronreview.bsky.social
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 11d
#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”!
@read.theforgottenfiction.com
@headpress.com
@hedgehogpress.co.uk
@remediatelitmag.bsky.social
@hempressbooks.bsky.social
Cont ⬇️
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 11d
#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 ⬇️
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 12d
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
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of James's piece.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 13d
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...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "Rodrigo Duterte is someone’s father" by Neen Ramos. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 14d
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
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Aspen's piece.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 15d
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...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "Assata Said" by Leo Rose Rodriguez. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 15d
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
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of breton's piece.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 15d
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...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "Your Remains are My Religion" by Sarena Tien. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 15d
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
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Christian's piece.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 15d
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...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "We Are Here" by Kristia Vasiloff. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 15d
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
A collage of a woman screaming overlayed against bedroom, with the view of the city outside of the window.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20d
Heritage 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.
Page 1: Flyer from The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project titled “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism (TIVE): Background and FAQs on Need for an FBI Domestic Terrorism Designation.” The page defines “Transgender Ideology” and “TIVE,” outlining beliefs allegedly associated with them. It claims such ideology justifies violence against opponents or frames opposition as violence. The text references the alleged assassination of Charlie Kirk, urging the FBI to classify TIVE as domestic terrorism. Page 2: Continuation of flyer with a section titled “Recent Instances of TIVE-Motivated Acts of Domestic Terrorism.” Lists multiple violent events from 2018 to 2025, attributing them to transgender ideology. Includes mugshots of two alleged attackers. Followed by a “Frequently Asked Questions and Key Terms” section, addressing whether transgender people are terrorists, comparing TIVE with “Nihilistic Violent Extremism,” and discussing FBI designations. Page 3: Flyer continues with questions about Antifa and FBI terrorism classifications. States that Antifa and TIVE are separate categories. Lists ways the FBI classifies domestic terrorism and identifies typical characteristics of “TIVEs,” such as targeting Christians, mental illness, and online radicalization. Includes images: a “Trans Antifa” logo, a pink-blue-white-striped slogan image reading “Protect Their Right to Exist,” a photo of Audrey Hale with a firearm, and a close-up of a magazine with the words “Where is your God?” Page 4: Section titled “Terminology Used by TIVE.” Defines terms including cisgender, deadnaming, Gillick competence, misgendering, “Right to Exist,” “Trans genocide,” and a phrase “You either have a live boy or dead girl, you choose.” Each is presented as terminology used in or associated with TIVE. Page layout is text-heavy, no additional graphics.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 22d
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...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "art as action" by jp thorn. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · 22d
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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
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Rumi's piece.
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