KHÔRA's Heat Issue 🔥 | Incisor by Bess Fernandez
"what i want is what my body says it needs, / cause effect / stinging nettles..."
Khôra Magazine
Khôra is a dynamic online arts space showcasing the work of polyphonic, multi-genre writers and artists. Each issue features six carefully curated pieces — artwork and writing selected for the way they speak across forms. Every issue is a conversation.
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KHÔRA's Heat Issue 🔥 | Blood Sullied by the Sovereign Will by Isra Hassan
"I wore a cardigan to hide my excavated heart, forced / to make way for a diorama, one that stores pride / for an America I lured people to think I believed in."
KHÔRA's Heat Issue 🔥 | Blue Lollypop Ritual by Melissa Leto
"What I want is another body under / my hands, for the salt of them / to flood all the walls and wells of me…"
KHÔRA's Heat Issue 🔥 | Appalachia by Beth Uzwiak
"I have not washed for days. I cannot part with the stench of you. I cannot sluice the stains. We are raw before the jar, ripe before the knife. Rind me. Bite me against my teeth. Raise the roof..."
KHÔRA's Heat Issue is here (and it's HOTTT) 🔥🔥🔥 | The Things I Would Do If You Walked Through That Door by AD Nolan
"I'd put your entire body in my mouth. Not all at once, but / a slow devouring. I'd start with the edges, and I wouldn't / be gentle because if you walked through that door I'd know…"
Issue 52 | Riding on the Backs of Giants by Sharon Pink
We gather our helmets and stuff them into our ally’s ride-along car. Two beloveds pop by to hug and share mutual admiration for our leather. They will lead the parade in vests that read “Bring them...
HVNGRY for more by Valerie Reding | Call for Submissions: FLASH
Welcome to our pantheon of queer icons, where otherness, diversity and vulnerability are nurtured, shared and celebrated. We are HVNGRY for more — hungry for more tolerance, more respect, more...
KHÔRA's Pride Issue 🏳️🌈 | All That Distance, Still Arriving by Arya Samuelson
To be in bed with the woman you love at five in the afternoon, five-thirty, six. To become the Milky Way, shuddering, smeared with stars. Contained, yet always expanding. Are there sounds in outer...
KHÔRA's Pride Issue 🏳️🌈 | June, Eating by Zoë Fay-Stindt
The grass beats its edges / on wind: in a great/white surge the moths / rise overnight: I watch / my lover eat her first fig / whole: pulped tongue: jellied / fingers at the neighbor’s / kitchen...
KHÔRA's Pride Issue 🏳️🌈 | Holding Hands: Three Essays by Ed Wolf
I worked in the typesetting division of George Litho with seven other gay men when I began the Shanti AIDS Volunteer Training in San Francisco in 1983. Ron was one of the department’s proofreaders...