is the only cure for loneliness, Robert Duncan wrote in a letter. The joy that can be a kite dragged in dirt, or joining the ritual of the sky. Read more of "Solitude" by Jacqueline Knirnschild in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 3: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

#FF It’s Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day! Give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications beginning with “P”: @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @paranoidxtree.bsky.social @paraselenemag.bsky.social @parthianbooks.bsky.social @peasantmagazine.bsky.social @penumbricmag.bsky.social Cont ⬇️

For years, I have forced my tongue into syllables that are not mine. Read more of "Yo Sé Quién Soy" by Ashen Speir in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 2: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

Please note CW I started writing essays after my daughter Isabel died. The essays were strange, broken. Read more of "Is It Finished?" by @milesew.bsky.social in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 3: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

Please note CWs Dear Belinda, Elaine showed me your email this morning. She printed it before she left for her run. “This is from my sister,” she said—just that—while she pulled on her Nikes. Read more by Rose Engelfried in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 2: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

never carry love on your back. it belongs in your belly, dark & plump with last summer’s elderberry harvest. twist the Holy Trinity into a Queer Quadruplet. Read more by Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 3 via 🔗 in bio. #SmallLit #IndieLit #TheBK #Poetry

CW: Colonial and racial identity themes The wind on the Ridge ignores precision. It strips siding from FEMA trailers, unmoved by decimal points in a sequencing report. Read more of "Pine Ridge, Spliced" by David Anson Lee in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 2: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

Please note CWs The graph doesn’t get it. The sine function waving like a white flag, the clean curves of the concave, the current electric cold. Two ice caps cut and crystallized. Read more by Kate Choi in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 3: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

at the intersection of fates, laughter drowns in sunset & everything we’ve built perishes at the dictum of time. Read more of "the villain in every story" by Muheez Olawale in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 2: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

Check out the pastel drawing "The Exam" by Amuri Mooris in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 2: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

CW: Incarceration They got it all wrong, my hair colour. The stylist turned it blonde and copper. Read more of "I’d just got my hair dyed when my mother went to jail." by Pratiksha Ahuja in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 3: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

they say there isn’t time.     that if you don’t          throw your whole               aching                 girl-body at the altar                    you’ve already      failed. Read more by Joni Thomas in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 2: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

Check out "Exceptional," a photograph by @willecee.bsky.social in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 3: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

#FF It’s Disability Pride Month! Give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications that are disabled- and neurodivergent-led: @alocasiamag.bsky.social @beestung.bsky.social @genrepunkmag.bsky.social @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social And us! Let us know who else should be on this list!

CW: Mention of colonialism Our cab driver says he wishes he could speak English like me. Read more of "Chatting with the Chennai Cab Driver" by Cypher in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 2: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

I didn’t know we were poor until my Lolo, who had driven three hours from Manila to surprise us, stepped into our home and immediately burst into tears. Read more of "Pabili Po" by Angelica Terso in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 2: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

CW: Implied transphobia I try to take a shower most mornings, not for any reason beyond the need to feel water on my skin. The bathroom has a fan that screams and does nothing. Read more of "This is how I stay" by Joni K. Thomas in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 3: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

Why are you wearing girl pants? I look down at the patchwork hearts stitched to the knees of my baggy men’s jeans and think about the range of answers I could give Read more of "Pants" by Jamez Terry in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 2: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

We did not get enough submission for All My Relations Volume 11, so we're keeping the submission period open for an extra month! Submit your pieces on the theme of "interdependence" by August 15. Here are the guidelines: www.globalmajoritypress.org/guidelines/

We did not notice when the locks disappeared, because locks are quiet things and power is loud. Read more of "KALUNGA" by Anselm Eme in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 3: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

She put herself in that position. She had loved a man who didn’t know how to love. Really? Really, Cleo. Read more of "What Cleo Loved (and other mistakes)" by Ella Torres in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 2: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

#FF It’s World Emoji Day! Give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications beginning with the letter “E”: @echolitmag.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social @epistemiclit.bsky.social @erratumpress.bsky.social @especbooks.bsky.social @ettereview.bsky.social @eunoiareview.bsky.social Cont ⬇️

She is not the storm people write stories about. She does not set rooms on fire with her anger, or rise loudly in crowded halls. Read more of "A Quiet Kind of Brave" by Muskan Singh in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 3: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

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CW: Death There was once a Gulmohar Prince who wore a crown of mulberry leaves. Twenty years ago, the Old Queen found him nestled in a gulmohar flower, crying jewelled tears from his orange eyes. Read more by V. Y. Muse in The B'K Vol 17, Issue 3: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

Last night, I sent the open letter that the group of editors co-wrote last week to @duotrope.com. In five minutes, I had their response. It was dismissive, and it chose bigotry rather than building a safer community for marginalized creatives and others. 1/2

Please note CW From above it must have looked almost nice, the three of us talking like that Read more of "On Giving Your Word" by Theodora Bonis in The B'K Volume 17, Issue 2: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

Please note CW There is a little girl playing in the yard across the street. The little girl was me, I was the little girl, And I did not kill her. Read more of "I Live With You as Part of Me" by A. A. Loria in The B'K Vol 17, Issue 3: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/

By request, we are extending the deadline to sign on to the open letter to Duotrope asking them to implement a more comprehensive screening process and no longer platform a dehumanizing publication. Sign on here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

CW: Death, violence, tragedy They had us walk into the room where Aunty lay. Her body was rigid, hands crossed, skin yellowed under the cold light. Read more of "Excerpt from Where the Truth Took Me" in The B'K Vol 17, Is 2 by Tania Rashid: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/