Editorial Note: Love
The GUTS editorial collective reflects on our seventh issue, LOVE.
The GUTS editorial collective reflects on our seventh issue, LOVE.
Erica Violet Lee, Nēhiyaw philosopher queen, writes on environmental racism, colonial borders, and the love, knowledge, and beauty found in the wastelands.
“There will always be power in reading our trans lives into stories not intended for us” : Casey Plett and Morgan M Page's trans reading of Little Shop of Horrors.
Rebecca Jade on how rapes within intimate relationships are actions in the state’s favour.
A rejoinder to the 2012 essay, “Against the Couple-Form,” Suturing the Split takes a psychoanalytic turn and reevaluates intimacy, emotion, and political action.
Hana Shafi on the emotional labour of dating while belonging to Middle Eastern and South Asian communities in the West.
“[I] began the next arc of my love, one anchored by my fantastic lovers, the spectres that took seed in the fertile soil of my stalled sex drive and my plucky, lonely heart.” How fictional lovers helped Lilian Min take...
Stop blaming millennials for ruining romance and start recognizing that normative romance is a fundamentally irredeemable capitalist imposition, writes Zoé Samudzi.
M Mohamed's black girl on the internet is a visual collection for all the teenage girls who have created other worlds for themselves when the here and now was never enough.
Lauren Crazybull on resisting colonialism's grasp on her relationship to herself and her kin.
Two sick and disabled queer femmes talk about acts of love in a broken and ableist society.
Four new poems by Oki Sogumi.
In Sarah Rupp's new story, doppelgänger lovers Simone and Second Simone meet at a dive to plan a day of getting high to the soundtrack of extinct bird calls. The night takes a dangerous and bloody turn (but for who?)...