Create an object (poem, essay, fiction, sketch, painting, film etc.) that showcases your imagined queer or trans world. Your object can include anything that allows you to imagine a different world, but it should demonstrate your imaginative/speculative skills. Include a one page artist's statement when you submit your project. Use the poetics statements in our poetry anthology as a model for your artist's statement. If you create a non-textual object, add a brief description of the object in your artist's statement.
Keep in mind that this is an imaginative and speculative project, similar to science fiction. This means that I am asking you to move beyond realizable and foreseeable changes in the world. Think beyond reform. Think beyond equality, inclusion, and tolerance. Think about a world that may seem "too good to be true" or "unpractical," but one that nevertheless allows for radical speculation. For example, we can't fully imagine what a world without capitalism would look like, but we can speculate and imagine how our relationships would be different without capitalism. Or we can't foresee a world without the police or prisons in the near future, but let's imagine together what such a world would look like. Or we can't know what a world without the gender binary would be like, but let's use this project as a way to really imagine and think about how our bodies or spaces would be structured differently without the gender binary. Use this project as an imaginative exercise. You may use abstract language in your artist's statement, but some concrete, specific example is necessary to get your point across to your reader/viewer. If you are having trouble, you can use Alexis Pauline Gumb's "Evidence" from Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (by Walidah Imarisha and Adrienne Marie Brown) as inspiration.
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