How to Identify Yourself with a WoundKB is a poet, essayist, cultural worker, and Artivism Fellow with Broadway Advocacy Coalition. They are the author of How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) and Freedom House (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2023). Follow them online at @earthtokb. HOW TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF WITH A WOUND is a chronicle of poems through which the speaker chronicles their experiences of Blackness, queerness, transness, class and the spaces between.

he had to get comfortable with being uncomfortable

here a rent boy is portrayed as the devil

and ready to spill the tea

Currently she is an alumna turned Teaching Artist Fellow at Young Chicago Authors

2: Black Girl Magic

especially from his big brother Hamish

the lives and beliefs of residents and outsiders alike are upended

JP took this as white-guy speak for “hey

from love & sex

featuring beautiful two-color artwork

and post-production

Set in the bleak and not-too-distant future of a culture in its death throes