BEHIND SHUT EYES
QTBIPOC DREAM ANTHOLOGY
Edited by Coyote Park
Designed by Rin Kim
Illustrated by Mac Do
Published by GenderFail
114 pages
First Edition of 400
Risograph

BEHIND SHUT EYES QTBIPOC DREAM ANTHOLOGY IS A QUEER & TRANS BLACK, INDIGENOUS, COMMUNITY OF COLOR DREAM ANTHOLOGY MADE UP OF POEMS, SHORT STORIES, REFLECTION PIECES, & JOURNAL ENTRIES.

THIS ANTHOLOGY CONSISTS OF 32 WRITERS/POETS AND 1 COMMUNAL POEM ENTITLED “A CLOSING PRAYER”. 33 WRITTEN WORKS TOTAL

EDITOR’S NOTE FROM COYOTE PARK: I AM HONORED TO HOLD THESE COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCES THAT HAVE CULTURAL & PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE. WE AS TRANS, NONBINARY, 2SPIRIT, AND QUEER BLACK, BROWN, INDIGENOUS, PEOPLE OF COLOR HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A BRIDGE BETWEEN WORLDS. TO THOSE OF US THAT HAVE HAD OUR WORLDS DENIED OF US, TREATED AS INSIGNIFICANT, OR MISCONSTRUED: YOUR DREAM OF FUTURE, PAST, AND PRESENT IS ALIVE AND BEAUTIFUL.I LOVE YOU. NOOLUEMEK’ 사랑해요 I WILL ECHO THAT LOVE IN EVERY LANGUAGE MY ANCESTORS ONCE SPOKE, & HOPE IT TRANSLATES INTO EVERY LANGUAGE OF YOURS.

Special thanks to our community that keeps dreaming and the place
where we dream together.
Copy edited with the help of Mar Okalani Aiu

BEHIND SHUT EYES Table of Contents
Kay Thomas - Nipawaakan
Jasmine Reiko - The Problem Of Waking
Devin DeSeta-Howard - The Dream of Community
Mithsuca Berry - When Did I Lose My Way
Hercules GK - Mapping the Healing / Traumascapes
Ryookyung Kim - I Dream of Persimmons
Ali B. - Despair is as Much a Dream as Joy
Mallika Singh - Confluence
Jam Bridgett - The Fish, the Dream, and The Ocean
Grey Rain - Centered in the Uncertain // Freewrite 0620
Jaz Whitford - Do You Dream
Marisa Fulper Estrada - Gender Mutt // Empty Waiting Room
Xenon - Testosterone Honey
Blanca Enriquez Acuña - Shroom Landscape: what the Lake and Colors taught me
Candex Seokyi Louie - Is it? // Butterflies
Catie Chan - How to Say Goodbye to a Ghost
Victor Jaiprakash - In Parallel
Tyra Payer - The Watoosie
Siham Karimi - Chosen Family, Making Home, The Sun and the Sea
Xochitl Duran - Suerte y Love
Xya Rachel - To White
Kevin Alarcon - Apocalypse Dream
Iida Valmé - Journal Excerpt
Jess T Fang // JUNiPER - My Flesh Has Grown to Ghost 癲狂
Dez Jones - Representation is a Form of Abstraction, Not the Other Way Around
Cree Renee - round eight.
Frank/ie Consent- Select from Dream Journal
Brinda Iyer - In My Dreams Your Laughter is the Softest Touch
Gabrielle Guo - Loose-Notes
Sentient Pansy - 3 Nightmares
S.O. Nault - Acts of Dreaming
Cortez - Mother Dreams